“AI, Apple and Google — Benedict Evans”
“In the last couple of years, magic started happening in AI.”
24
Jun
Monthly Archives: June 2016
23
Jun
“In Wisconsin, a Backlash Against Using Data to Foretell Defendants’ Futures”
“CHICAGO — When Eric L. Loomis was sentenced for eluding the police in La Crosse, Wis., the judge told him he presented a “high risk” to the community and handed down a six-year prison term. The judge said he had arrived at his sentencing decision in part because of Mr.”
Read: In Wisconsin, a Backlash Against Using Data to Foretell Defendants’ Futures
15
Jun
“The FBI has collected over 411 million photos for its facial recognition system”
“The FBI has quietly constructed a massive facial recognition system, and according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, it may not have built in the required safeguards.”
Read: The FBI has collected over 411 million photos for its facial recognition system
15
Jun
“AI Now Program Committee”
“The White House and New York University’s Information Law Institute, with support from Google Open Research, Microsoft Research and the MacArthur Foundation will host a major public symposium to address the near-term impacts of AI technologies across social and economic systems.”
14
Jun
“The newest tool in the fight against cancer is a huge genetic database driven by algorithms”
““This is good news in the fight against cancer.” That’s what US vice president Joe Biden said as 2 petabytes of genomic and clinical data were released to the public last week.”
Read: The newest tool in the fight against cancer is a huge genetic database driven by algorithms
11
Jun
“The NSA wants to monitor pacemakers and other medical devices”
“The NSA is interested in collecting information from pacemakers and other biomedical devices for national security purposes, according to The Intercept.”
Read: The NSA wants to monitor pacemakers and other medical devices
10
Jun
“Creepy startup will help landlords, employers and online dates strip-mine intimate data from your Facebook page”
“There’s a scene in the dystopian scifi novel “Ready Player One” in which the protagonist glimpses the dossier of personal information a major tech company has gathered on him. It includes his height and weight, his browser history, his address — even several years of his school transcripts.”
10
Jun
“Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense”
“Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of Sunspring, a short science fiction film that’s not entirely what it seems. It’s about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space station, probably in a love triangle.”
Read: Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense
08
Jun
“‘Mathwashing,’ Facebook and the zeitgeist of data worship”
“Computers are people, too. It’s something we’ve been thinking about over at Technical.ly Brooklyn HQ for a bit and it’s come up in the news recently a few times, most notably last month with the Facebook Trending Topic Imbroglio of 2016.”
Read: ‘Mathwashing,’ Facebook and the zeitgeist of data worship
06
Jun
“”100 years of Pulitzer data reveal wholly insufficient progress on dimensions of diversity and inclusivity https”
“100 years of Pulitzer data reveal wholly insufficient progress on dimensions of diversity and inclusivity”