Partners in Surveillance: How police use public cameras to track license plates.
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Partners in Surveillance: How police use public cameras to track license plates.

Police are increasingly able to track motor vehicles throughout the U.S. using a network of AI-powered cameras — many owned by civilians. Flock, which sells automatic license plate readers is encouraging enforcers to use its network to monitor cars and trucks outside their jurisdiction.

March 24, 20212 min read
Social Engagement vs. Social Good: The builder of Facebook's algorithm talks bias.
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Social Engagement vs. Social Good: The builder of Facebook's algorithm talks bias.

Facebook’s management obstructed the architect of its recommendation algorithms from mitigating their negative social impact. The social network focused on reining in algorithmic bias against particular groups of users at the expense of efforts to reduce disinformation.

March 17, 20212 min read
Good Labels for Cropped Images: AI technique adds text labels to random image crops.
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Good Labels for Cropped Images: AI technique adds text labels to random image crops.

In training an image recognition model, it’s not uncommon to augment the data by cropping original images randomly. But if an image contains several objects, a cropped version may no longer match its label. Researchers developed a way to make sure random crops are labeled properly.

March 17, 20212 min read
Good Labels for Cropped Images: AI technique adds text labels to random image crops.
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Good Labels for Cropped Images: AI technique adds text labels to random image crops.

In training an image recognition model, it’s not uncommon to augment the data by cropping original images randomly. But if an image contains several objects, a cropped version may no longer match its label. Researchers developed a way to make sure random crops are labeled properly.

March 17, 20212 min read
Social Engagement vs. Social Good: The builder of Facebook's algorithm talks bias.
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Social Engagement vs. Social Good: The builder of Facebook's algorithm talks bias.

Facebook’s management obstructed the architect of its recommendation algorithms from mitigating their negative social impact. The social network focused on reining in algorithmic bias against particular groups of users at the expense of efforts to reduce disinformation.

March 17, 20212 min read
Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.
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Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.

Facebook’s content moderation algorithms block many advertisements aimed at disabled people. The social media platform’s automated systems regularly reject ads for clothing designed for people with physical disabilities.

February 24, 20212 min read
Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.
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Human Disabilities Baffle Algorithms: Facebook blocked ads aimed at people with disabilities.

Facebook’s content moderation algorithms block many advertisements aimed at disabled people. The social media platform’s automated systems regularly reject ads for clothing designed for people with physical disabilities.

February 24, 20212 min read
Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.
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Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.

AI may help revolutionize the human diet – or dessert, at least. Google applied AI engineer Dale Markowitz and developer advocate Sara Robinson trained a model to predict whether a recipe is...

February 24, 20211 min read
Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.
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Cake + Cookie = Cakie: Google AI creates new dessert recipes.

AI may help revolutionize the human diet – or dessert, at least. Google applied AI engineer Dale Markowitz and developer advocate Sara Robinson trained a model to predict whether a recipe is...

February 24, 20211 min read
Sharper Eyes For Vision+Language: AI research shows improved image and text matching.
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Sharper Eyes For Vision+Language: AI research shows improved image and text matching.

Models that interpret the interplay of words and images tend to be trained on richer bodies of text than images. Recent research worked toward giving such models a more balanced knowledge of the two domains.

February 24, 20212 min read
Sharper Eyes For Vision+Language: AI research shows improved image and text matching.
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Sharper Eyes For Vision+Language: AI research shows improved image and text matching.

Models that interpret the interplay of words and images tend to be trained on richer bodies of text than images. Recent research worked toward giving such models a more balanced knowledge of the two domains.

February 24, 20212 min read
Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.
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Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.

U.S. government approval of medical AI products is on the upswing — but information about how such systems were built is largely unavailable. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a a plethora of AI-driven medical systems.

February 17, 20212 min read
Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.
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Medical AI’s Hidden Data: Why many medical AI devices are black boxes.

U.S. government approval of medical AI products is on the upswing — but information about how such systems were built is largely unavailable. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a a plethora of AI-driven medical systems.

February 17, 20212 min read
Draw a Gun, Trigger an Algorithm: These AI-enabled security cameras automatically ID guns.
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Draw a Gun, Trigger an Algorithm: These AI-enabled security cameras automatically ID guns.

Computer vision is alerting authorities the moment someone draws a gun. Several companies offer deep learning systems that enable surveillance cameras to spot firearms and quickly notify security guards or police.

January 20, 20211 min read
Draw a Gun, Trigger an Algorithm: These AI-enabled security cameras automatically ID guns.
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Draw a Gun, Trigger an Algorithm: These AI-enabled security cameras automatically ID guns.

Computer vision is alerting authorities the moment someone draws a gun. Several companies offer deep learning systems that enable surveillance cameras to spot firearms and quickly notify security guards or police.

January 20, 20211 min read

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