Ethics Team Scuttles Taser Drone: Axon Cancels Plans to Sell a Taser Drone
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Ethics Team Scuttles Taser Drone: Axon Cancels Plans to Sell a Taser Drone

A weaponized AI system intended to protect students has been grounded. Axon, which makes law-enforcement equipment such as tasers and body cameras, canceled a plan to sell remote-controlled drones capable of firing electroshock darts.

June 15, 20222 min read
Standout Startups: The Top 100 AI Startups off 2022
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Standout Startups: The Top 100 AI Startups off 2022

AI startups are creating high value across a wide variety of industries. CB Insights, which tracks tech startups, published the latest edition of the AI 100, its annual list of 100 notable AI startups.

June 8, 20222 min read
Child-Welfare Agency Drops AI: Oregon and Pennsylvania Halt Use of AI Tool for At-Risk Kids
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Child-Welfare Agency Drops AI: Oregon and Pennsylvania Halt Use of AI Tool for At-Risk Kids

Officials in charge of protecting children stopped using a machine learning model designed to help them make decisions in difficult cases. The U.S. state of Oregon halted its use of an algorithm intended to identify children who may benefit from intervention.

June 8, 20222 min read
Child-Welfare Agency Drops AI: Oregon and Pennsylvania Halt Use of AI Tool for At-Risk Kids
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Child-Welfare Agency Drops AI: Oregon and Pennsylvania Halt Use of AI Tool for At-Risk Kids

Officials in charge of protecting children stopped using a machine learning model designed to help them make decisions in difficult cases. The U.S. state of Oregon halted its use of an algorithm intended to identify children who may benefit from intervention.

June 8, 20222 min read
DALL·E 2’s Emergent Vocabulary: The text-to- image generator DALL·E 2 invents its own words and concepts
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DALL·E 2’s Emergent Vocabulary: The text-to- image generator DALL·E 2 invents its own words and concepts

OpenAI’s text-to-image generator DALL·E 2 produces pictures with uncanny creativity on demand. Has it invented its own language as well? Ask DALL·E 2 to generate an image that includes text, and often its output will include seemingly random characters.

June 8, 20223 min read
Standout Startups: The Top 100 AI Startups off 2022
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Standout Startups: The Top 100 AI Startups off 2022

AI startups are creating high value across a wide variety of industries. CB Insights, which tracks tech startups, published the latest edition of the AI 100, its annual list of 100 notable AI startups.

June 8, 20222 min read
DALL·E 2’s Emergent Vocabulary: The text-to- image generator DALL·E 2 invents its own words and concepts
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DALL·E 2’s Emergent Vocabulary: The text-to- image generator DALL·E 2 invents its own words and concepts

OpenAI’s text-to-image generator DALL·E 2 produces pictures with uncanny creativity on demand. Has it invented its own language as well? Ask DALL·E 2 to generate an image that includes text, and often its output will include seemingly random characters.

June 8, 20223 min read
Actors Act Against AI: UK Actors Union Launches Campaign Against AI
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Actors Act Against AI: UK Actors Union Launches Campaign Against AI

Performing artists are taking action to protect their earning power against scene-stealing avatars. Equity, a union of UK performing artists, launched a campaign to pressure the government to prohibit unauthorized use of a performer’s AI-generated likeness.

June 1, 20222 min read
Actors Act Against AI: UK Actors Union Launches Campaign Against AI
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Actors Act Against AI: UK Actors Union Launches Campaign Against AI

Performing artists are taking action to protect their earning power against scene-stealing avatars. Equity, a union of UK performing artists, launched a campaign to pressure the government to prohibit unauthorized use of a performer’s AI-generated likeness.

June 1, 20222 min read
K-Means Clustering: Group Think - K-Means Clustering for Machine Learning Explained
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K-Means Clustering: Group Think - K-Means Clustering for Machine Learning Explained

If you’re standing close to others at a party, it’s likely you have something in common. This is the idea behind using k-means clustering to split data points into groups. Whether the groups formed via human agency or some other force, this algorithm will find them.

May 25, 20222 min read
K-Means Clustering: Group Think - K-Means Clustering for Machine Learning Explained
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K-Means Clustering: Group Think - K-Means Clustering for Machine Learning Explained

If you’re standing close to others at a party, it’s likely you have something in common. This is the idea behind using k-means clustering to split data points into groups. Whether the groups formed via human agency or some other force, this algorithm will find them.

May 25, 20222 min read
Decision Trees: From Root to Leaves — Decision Trees for Machine Learning Explained
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Decision Trees: From Root to Leaves — Decision Trees for Machine Learning Explained

What kind of beast was Aristotle? The philosopher's follower Porphyry, who lived in Syria during the third century, came up with a logical way to answer the question...

May 25, 20223 min read
Decision Trees: From Root to Leaves — Decision Trees for Machine Learning Explained
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Decision Trees: From Root to Leaves — Decision Trees for Machine Learning Explained

What kind of beast was Aristotle? The philosopher's follower Porphyry, who lived in Syria during the third century, came up with a logical way to answer the question...

May 25, 20223 min read
Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks
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Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks

Let’s get this out of the way: A brain is not a cluster of graphics processing units, and if it were, it would run software far more complex than the typical artificial neural network. Yet neural networks were inspired by the brain’s architecture.

May 25, 20223 min read
Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks
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Neural Networks: Find the Function — A Basic Introduction to Neural Networks

Let’s get this out of the way: A brain is not a cluster of graphics processing units, and if it were, it would run software far more complex than the typical artificial neural network. Yet neural networks were inspired by the brain’s architecture.

May 25, 20223 min read

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