Tech & Society
The AI Community Splinters: Could geopolitics drive a wedge in the AI community?
Will international rivalries fragment international cooperation in machine learning? Countries competing for AI dominance will lash out at competitors.
Tech & Society
AI Spreads Disinformation: Understanding the fear of AI-powered disinformation
Will AI promote lies that deepen social divisions? Propagandists will bait online recommendation algorithms with sensationalized falsehoods. People who snap at the clickbait will be reeled into opposing ideological silos.
Tech & Society
Giant Models Bankrupt Research: Will training AI become too expensive for most companies?
What if AI requires so much computation that it becomes unaffordable?The fear: Training ever more capable models will become too pricey for all but the richest corporations and government agencies. Rising costs will
Tech & Society
The Black Box Has Dark Corners: Will we ever understand what happens inside black box AI?
Will we ever understand what goes on inside the mind of a neural network?The fear: When AI systems go wrong, no one will be able to explain the reasoning behind their decisions.
Tech & Society
Unfair Outcomes Destroy Trust: What could cause widespread backlash against AI?
Will AI that discriminates based on race, gender, or economic status undermine the public’s confidence in the technology? Seduced by the promise of cost savings and data-driven decision making, organizations will deploy biased systems that end up doing real-world damage.
Tech & Society
AI Spreads Disinformation: Understanding the fear of AI-powered disinformation
Will AI promote lies that deepen social divisions? Propagandists will bait online recommendation algorithms with sensationalized falsehoods. People who snap at the clickbait will be reeled into opposing ideological silos.
Tech & Society
Pushing for Reproducible Research: Experts criticize Google Health over AI transparency.
Controversy erupted over the need for transparency in research into AI for medicine. Google Health introduced a system that purportedly identified breast cancer more accurately than human radiologists.
Tech & Society
RL Agents SOS!: Inside Agence, a reinforcement learning video game.
A new multimedia experience lets audience members help artificially intelligent creatures work together to survive. Agence, an interactive virtual reality (VR) project blends audience participation with reinforcement learning to create an experience that’s half film, half video game.
Tech & Society
RL Agents SOS!: Inside Agence, a reinforcement learning video game.
A new multimedia experience lets audience members help artificially intelligent creatures work together to survive. Agence, an interactive virtual reality (VR) project blends audience participation with reinforcement learning to create an experience that’s half film, half video game.
Tech & Society
Pushing for Reproducible Research: Experts criticize Google Health over AI transparency.
Controversy erupted over the need for transparency in research into AI for medicine. Google Health introduced a system that purportedly identified breast cancer more accurately than human radiologists.
Tech & Society
Transparency for Smart Cities: Amsterdam and Helsinki launch public AI registries.
Two European capitals launched public logs of AI systems used by the government. Amsterdam and Helsinki provide online registries that describe the algorithms that govern municipal activities, such as automated parking control and a public health chatbot.
Tech & Society
Transparency for Smart Cities: Amsterdam and Helsinki launch public AI registries.
Two European capitals launched public logs of AI systems used by the government. Amsterdam and Helsinki provide online registries that describe the algorithms that govern municipal activities, such as automated parking control and a public health chatbot.
Tech & Society
Dynamic Benchmarks: A platform for fooling language models
Benchmarks provide a scientific basis for evaluating model performance, but they don’t necessarily map well to human cognitive abilities. Facebook aims to close the gap through a dynamic benchmarking method that keeps humans in the loop.
Tech & Society
Mapping the Inferno: Using computer vision to map wildfires
An AI-powered eye in the sky is helping firefighters control woodland blazes. California used maps drawn by neural networks to fight fires that threatened Yosemite National Park earlier this year.
Tech & Society
Dynamic Benchmarks: A platform for fooling language models
Benchmarks provide a scientific basis for evaluating model performance, but they don’t necessarily map well to human cognitive abilities. Facebook aims to close the gap through a dynamic benchmarking method that keeps humans in the loop.
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