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
Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery
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Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery

Accusations of fraud hang over some of the world’s most highly valued artworks. Machine learning engineers are evaluating the authenticity of these famous pieces.

November 3, 20212 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
Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery
Tech & Society

Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery

Accusations of fraud hang over some of the world’s most highly valued artworks. Machine learning engineers are evaluating the authenticity of these famous pieces.

November 3, 20212 min read
How Facebook Fills the Feed: Leaked Documents Show How Facebook's Algorithm Works
Tech & Society

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
Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?
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Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?

Is human creativity being replaced by the synthetic equivalent? The fear: AI is cranking out increasingly sophisticated visual, musical, and literary works. AI-generated media will flood the market, squeezing out human artists and depriving the world of their creativity.

October 27, 20212 min read
Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?
Tech & Society

Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?

Is human creativity being replaced by the synthetic equivalent? The fear: AI is cranking out increasingly sophisticated visual, musical, and literary works. AI-generated media will flood the market, squeezing out human artists and depriving the world of their creativity.

October 27, 20212 min read
Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies
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Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies

What if AI-enabled monitoring isn’t just for dictators and despots?The fear: Under the pretext of maintaining law and order, even countries founded on a commitment to individual rights allow police to take advantage of smart-city infrastructure and smart-home devices.

October 27, 20211 min read
Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies
Tech & Society

Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies

What if AI-enabled monitoring isn’t just for dictators and despots?The fear: Under the pretext of maintaining law and order, even countries founded on a commitment to individual rights allow police to take advantage of smart-city infrastructure and smart-home devices.

October 27, 20211 min read
New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their  fine-tuned progeny.
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New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their fine-tuned progeny.

Is AI becoming inbred? The fear: The best models increasingly are fine-tuned versions of a small number of so-called foundation models that were pretrained on immense quantities of data scraped from the web.

October 27, 20211 min read
New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their  fine-tuned progeny.
Tech & Society

New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their fine-tuned progeny.

Is AI becoming inbred? The fear: The best models increasingly are fine-tuned versions of a small number of so-called foundation models that were pretrained on immense quantities of data scraped from the web.

October 27, 20211 min read
Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?
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Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?

War is already bad enough. What happens when human combatants are replaced by machines?

October 27, 20211 min read
Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?
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Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?

War is already bad enough. What happens when human combatants are replaced by machines?

October 27, 20211 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
Tech & Society

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

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