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Algorithm Investigators: All about the EU's new Centre for Algorithmic Transparency
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Algorithm Investigators: All about the EU's new Centre for Algorithmic Transparency

A new regulatory body created by the European Union promises to peer inside the black boxes that drive social media recommendations. The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will study the algorithms that identify, categorize...

May 24, 20232 min read
Algorithm Investigators: All about the EU's new Centre for Algorithmic Transparency
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Algorithm Investigators: All about the EU's new Centre for Algorithmic Transparency

A new regulatory body created by the European Union promises to peer inside the black boxes that drive social media recommendations. The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will study the algorithms that identify, categorize...

May 24, 20232 min read
Better Pay for Data Workers: Google contractors get a raise.
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Better Pay for Data Workers: Google contractors get a raise.

Contract workers who help train the algorithms behind Google Search won a pay raise. Employees of U.S. contractors who evaluate the quality of Google Search’s results, knowledge panels, and ads will earn $15 per hour, a raise of roughly $1.

April 5, 20232 min read
Better Pay for Data Workers: Google contractors get a raise.
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Better Pay for Data Workers: Google contractors get a raise.

Contract workers who help train the algorithms behind Google Search won a pay raise. Employees of U.S. contractors who evaluate the quality of Google Search’s results, knowledge panels, and ads will earn $15 per hour, a raise of roughly $1.

April 5, 20232 min read
Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams
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Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams

The future of Big AI may lie with product-development teams. Meta reorganized its AI division. Henceforth, AI teams will report to departments that develop key products.

June 15, 20222 min read
Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams
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Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams

The future of Big AI may lie with product-development teams. Meta reorganized its AI division. Henceforth, AI teams will report to departments that develop key products.

June 15, 20222 min read
Matt Zeiler: Advance AI for good
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Matt Zeiler: Advance AI for good

There’s a reason why artificial intelligence is sometimes referred to as “software 2.0”: It represents the most significant technological advance in decades. Like any groundbreaking invention, it raises concerns about the future, and much of the media focus is on the threats it brings.

December 29, 20212 min read
Matt Zeiler: Advance AI for good
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Matt Zeiler: Advance AI for good

There’s a reason why artificial intelligence is sometimes referred to as “software 2.0”: It represents the most significant technological advance in decades. Like any groundbreaking invention, it raises concerns about the future, and much of the media focus is on the threats it brings.

December 29, 20212 min read
Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.
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Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.

While models like GPT-3 and EfficientNet, which work on text and images respectively, are responsible for some of deep learning’s highest-profile successes, approaches that find relationships between text and images made impressive

December 22, 20211 min read
Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.
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Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.

While models like GPT-3 and EfficientNet, which work on text and images respectively, are responsible for some of deep learning’s highest-profile successes, approaches that find relationships between text and images made impressive

December 22, 20211 min read
Troll Recognition: Twitch uses AI to flag trolls who try to avoid bans.
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Troll Recognition: Twitch uses AI to flag trolls who try to avoid bans.

A prominent online streaming service is using a machine learning model to identify trolls who try to get around being banned.

December 15, 20212 min read
Troll Recognition: Twitch uses AI to flag trolls who try to avoid bans.
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Troll Recognition: Twitch uses AI to flag trolls who try to avoid bans.

A prominent online streaming service is using a machine learning model to identify trolls who try to get around being banned.

December 15, 20212 min read
Haters Gonna [Mute]: Gamers can mute offensive language with AI.
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Haters Gonna [Mute]: Gamers can mute offensive language with AI.

A new tool aims to let video gamers control how much vitriol they receive from fellow players. Intel announced a voice recognition tool called Bleep that the company claims can moderate voice chat automatically, allowing users to silence offensive language.

April 21, 20212 min read
Haters Gonna [Mute]: Gamers can mute offensive language with AI.
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Haters Gonna [Mute]: Gamers can mute offensive language with AI.

A new tool aims to let video gamers control how much vitriol they receive from fellow players. Intel announced a voice recognition tool called Bleep that the company claims can moderate voice chat automatically, allowing users to silence offensive language.

April 21, 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

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