“When Brooklyn-native Jacky Alcine logged onto Google Google Photos on Sunday evening, he was shocked to find an album titled “Gorillas,” in which the facial recognition software categorized him and his friend as primates.”
Read: Google Photos Tags Two African-Americans As Gorillas Through Facial Recognition Software
“In May, Google unfurled its new Photos app as the crowning achievement of machine learning capabilities — a service that stores and catalogues your images with computing smarts that can pick out buildings, landscapes, animals, even abstract events like birthdays, on its own.”
Read: ‘Machine Learning Is Hard’: Google Photos Has Egregious Facial Recognition Error
“WASHINGTON: Twitteriffic has added a new feature that will now take better advantage of Twitter’s new quote tweet feature and use facial recognition software to help user frame their shots on iOS. According to thenextweb.”
Read: Twitteriffic adds facial recognition feature in pictures on iOS
“If you haven’t read about it in the Times or heard about it on NPR yet,you are soon going to be replaced by a robot at your job. All the jobs we thought were safe because they required experience and nuance can now be done by computers.”
“A person sees this soon-to-be pornographic gif as an attractive blonde addressing the camera as she’s about to pull a man’s shorts down. A computer sees it as a portrait of a late-20s female inclining her head, sitting indoors in a room with clothing and a painting.”
“Originally published at blog.adatao.com.Follow me on Twitter to keep informed of interesting developments on these topics. Or so Aram Harrow, an MIT physics professor, counter-intuitively argues in “Why now is the right time to study quantum computing”.”
“Today’s Upshot politics and policy column of the New York Times “Can an Algorithm Hire Better Than a Human?” focuses on a new wave of software start-ups that use big data to automate the job recruitment process.”
“There’s more work to do,” said Facebook’s Global Director of Diversity Maxine Williams, who issued a straight-out-of-How-to-Lie-With-Statistics diversity update on Thursday that essentially consisted of a handful of bar charts labeled with only percentages for select measures of the social networking giant’s current demographics.”
“MeeDoc: Live video and chat consultations with doctors and prescription anywhere in Europe. Best mobile app 2014 – Teknologiateollisuus and Teleforum Ry.”
Have nots, be on notice. Recently, a republican FCC chair said the internet was not essential. When the only way to get healthcare is going to be online, we will see about that…