“It took less than 24 hours for Twitter to corrupt an innocent AI chatbot. Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled Tay — a Twitter bot that the company described as an experiment in “conversational understanding.”
Read: Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day
“The war on drugs: Is it a genuine public health crusade or an attempt to carry out what author Michelle Alexander characterizes as “the New Jim Crow”? A new report by Dan Baum for Harper’s Magazine suggests the latter.”
Read: Nixon official: real reason for the drug war was to criminalize black people and hippies
“Face swap camera apps are all the rage these days, and Facebook even acquired one this month to get into the game. But the technology is getting more and more creepy: you can now hijack someone else’s face in real-time video.”
“‘Discrimination is still a reality’ says co-author after two-year study reveals a much higher rate of interest in ‘whitened’ names for black and Asian Americans Minority job applicants who resort to “resume whitening” – a practice in which candidates alter any information on th”
Read: ‘Resume whitening’ doubles callbacks for minority job candidates, study finds
“Universal Pictures and Facebook teamed up to create custom trailers for white audiences to promote the N.W.A. film Straight Outta Compton, scrubbing any mention of the rap group and instead focusing on the rise of Ice Cube and Dr. Dre.”
Read: Universal Pictures made different Straight Outta Compton trailers for different races
“Here are 3 free startup ideas: • Facebook without the algorithm • Twitter without the algorithm • Instagram without the algorithm”
“Sunday morning political talk shows can determine the week’s agenda — and that agenda is overwhelmingly defined by the white, conservative men who appear on those shows much more often than other groups. The majority of the guests were white men.”
Read: The staggering overrepresentation of white, conservative men on Sunday political shows
“George Hotz welcomed a packed room at SXSW yesterday for his panel “I Built a Better Self-Driving Car Than Tesla” with an intro as buzzy as the event’s title. Hotz introduced his company, comma.”
Read: George Hotz promised to end capitalism in a manic sermon at SXSW
“AlphaGo’s victories against legendary Go player Lee Se-dol over the last few days mark a major milestone in AI research.”
“This is the world according to AI Scry, a new iOS app that uses a neural network to identify whatever’s in front of your phone’s camera and describe it to you.”
Read: This app uses a neural network to describe the world around you