Facebook Doesn't See Your Face: Facebook Disables Face Recognition Services
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Facebook Doesn't See Your Face: Facebook Disables Face Recognition Services

Facebook disabled face recognition for uploaded photos and videos as well as its retrospective Memories service and promised to delete over 1 billion individual face recognition templates.

November 10, 20211 min read
Facebook Doesn't See Your Face: Facebook Disables Face Recognition Services
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Facebook Doesn't See Your Face: Facebook Disables Face Recognition Services

Facebook disabled face recognition for uploaded photos and videos as well as its retrospective Memories service and promised to delete over 1 billion individual face recognition templates.

November 10, 20211 min read
How Facebook Fills the Feed: Leaked Documents Show How Facebook's Algorithm Works
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How Facebook Fills the Feed: Leaked Documents Show How Facebook's Algorithm Works

Facebook’s recommendation algorithm is a closely guarded secret. Newly leaked documents shed light on the company’s formula for prioritizing posts in an individual user’s feed.

November 3, 20213 min read
How Facebook Fills the Feed: Leaked Documents Show How Facebook's Algorithm Works
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How Facebook Fills the Feed: Leaked Documents Show How Facebook's Algorithm Works

Facebook’s recommendation algorithm is a closely guarded secret. Newly leaked documents shed light on the company’s formula for prioritizing posts in an individual user’s feed.

November 3, 20213 min read
Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility
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Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility

Tech companies generally try to be (or to appear to be) socially responsible. Would some rather let AI’s negative impacts slide?

October 27, 20212 min read
Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility
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Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility

Tech companies generally try to be (or to appear to be) socially responsible. Would some rather let AI’s negative impacts slide?

October 27, 20212 min read
The Social Nightmare: Facebook Whistleblower Exposes How Company Harms Users
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The Social Nightmare: Facebook Whistleblower Exposes How Company Harms Users

Scrutiny of Facebook intensified after a whistleblower leaked internal research showing the company has known that its ongoing drive to engage users has harmed individuals and society at large.

October 6, 20212 min read
The Social Nightmare: Facebook Whistleblower Exposes How Company Harms Users
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The Social Nightmare: Facebook Whistleblower Exposes How Company Harms Users

Scrutiny of Facebook intensified after a whistleblower leaked internal research showing the company has known that its ongoing drive to engage users has harmed individuals and society at large.

October 6, 20212 min read
AI Engineers Weigh In on AI Ethics: Survey Shows How AI Engineers Feel About Ethical Issues
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AI Engineers Weigh In on AI Ethics: Survey Shows How AI Engineers Feel About Ethical Issues

Machine learning researchers tend to trust international organizations, distrust military forces, and disagree on how much disclosure is necessary when describing new models, a new study found.

September 15, 20212 min read
AI Engineers Weigh In on AI Ethics: Survey Shows How AI Engineers Feel About Ethical Issues
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AI Engineers Weigh In on AI Ethics: Survey Shows How AI Engineers Feel About Ethical Issues

Machine learning researchers tend to trust international organizations, distrust military forces, and disagree on how much disclosure is necessary when describing new models, a new study found.

September 15, 20212 min read
Ask Me in a Different Way: Prompt Engineering Improves Few-Shot Learning Results
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Ask Me in a Different Way: Prompt Engineering Improves Few-Shot Learning Results

Pretrained language models like GPT-3 have shown notable proficiency in few-shot learning. Given a prompt that includes a few example questions and answers (the shots) plus an unanswered question (the task), such models can generate an accurate answer.

September 1, 20212 min read
Ask Me in a Different Way: Prompt Engineering Improves Few-Shot Learning Results
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Ask Me in a Different Way: Prompt Engineering Improves Few-Shot Learning Results

Pretrained language models like GPT-3 have shown notable proficiency in few-shot learning. Given a prompt that includes a few example questions and answers (the shots) plus an unanswered question (the task), such models can generate an accurate answer.

September 1, 20212 min read
More Reliable Pretraining: Pretraining Method Helps AI Learn Useful Representations
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More Reliable Pretraining: Pretraining Method Helps AI Learn Useful Representations

Pretraining methods generate basic representations for later fine-tuning, but they’re prone to certain issues that can throw them off-kilter. New work proposes a solution.

August 25, 20212 min read
More Reliable Pretraining: Pretraining Method Helps AI Learn Useful Representations
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More Reliable Pretraining: Pretraining Method Helps AI Learn Useful Representations

Pretraining methods generate basic representations for later fine-tuning, but they’re prone to certain issues that can throw them off-kilter. New work proposes a solution.

August 25, 20212 min read
User Privacy Versus Child Safety: Apple to scan user phones for images of child abuse.
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User Privacy Versus Child Safety: Apple to scan user phones for images of child abuse.

Apple, which has made a point of its commitment to user privacy, announced that it will scan iPhones for evidence of child abuse. The tech giant will include a machine learning model on the device.

August 18, 20212 min read

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