“Google is aggressively trying to make smartphones more responsive to human needs, and it looks like Apple is joining the push. Reuters reports that Apple has posted dozens of job listings for artificial intelligence experts and recruited applicants from PhD programs.”
Read: Apple’s ramping up its hiring of machine learning experts
“Last Wednesday, “A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style” was posted to ArXiv, featuring some of the most compelling imagery generated by deep convolutional neural networks since Google Research’s “DeepDream” post. On Sunday, Kai Sheng Tai posted the first public implementation.”
“Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.”
“The Obama administration’s no-fly lists and broader watchlisting system is based on predicting crimes rather than relying on records of demonstrated offenses, the government has been forced to admit in court.”
Read: No-fly list uses ‘predictive assessments’ instead of hard evidence, US admits
“Watching a neural network trying to work out what it’s seeing in the opening credits of Star Trek: The Next Generation is both fascinating and kind of sad.”
Read: Watch a machine try to work out what’s in the Star Trek intro
“The tech industry has a problem with women. Despite the industry’s rapid growth, the percentage of female workers has actually decreased, from 35 percent in 1990 to just 26 percent today.”
Read: Google X Roboticist Speaks Out on Tech’s Gender Crisis (Video)
“Marvel’s effort to encourage diversity on its pages is still going strong. Entertainment Weekly reports that the comics company now plans on launching a new title this fall that doesn’t star an already popular white superhero.”
Read: Marvel’s next female superhero is a little girl with a dinosaur
“The Yale Law School Information Society Project is seeking abstracts of papers for a conference on big data and algorithmic accountability to be held on April 1-2, 2016. The best papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology (YJoLT).”
“Summers are hot in Omaha, where heat indexes can top 100 degrees. But Molly Mahannah is prepared. At the office, she bundles up in cardigans or an oversized sweatshirt from her file drawer. Then, she says, “I have a huge blanket at my desk that I’ve got myself wrapped in like a burrito.”
“Algorithms like this obviously raise some uncomfortable questions.”