It is a bold mainstream movie that truly sticks it to Big Tech, but that’s what zippy new animation The Mitchells vs the Machines purports to do. A fractious family who’d rather spend time on their screens are forced to cooperate when…
AI Fairness is an important topic for machine learning practitioners. We must be aware that there can be both positive and negative implications for users when they interact with our models. Although our metric of success tends to be a performance metric (e.g….
Physicists are increasingly developing artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to advance our understanding of the physical world but there is a rising concern about the bias in such systems and their wider impact on society at large. Julianna Photopoulos explores the issues of…
Can you imagine modern life without electricity? I bet the idea seems ludicrous, and clearly, if you are reading this, you are among the 87% of the world population that enjoys access to electrical power. Andrew Ng, a household name in the Machine Learning…
A team of European scientists led by researchers from the Max Planck institute recently developed the world’s first cybernetic system for predicting psychosis onset in high-risk patients. According to the NIH, about three percent of the general population (data is US-specific) will…
The COVID-19 crisis and recent data breaches have highlighted the importance of trustworthy data processing. In its white paper on artificial intelligence, the European Commission also emphasised that trustworthiness is a prerequisite for the adoption of digital technology. Ethical AI is one…
Nijeer Parks was bewildered when he was arrested and taken into custody in February 2019. Apparently, he’d been accused of shoplifting and attempting to hit a police officer with a car at a Hampton Inn, as the New York Times reported. But Woodbridge, New Jersey,…
Social media can have a significant impact on stock prices. Look at the Reddit chatroom, WallStreetBets for example. Over the last few weeks, it took the financial world by storm, squeezing stocks like GameStop, Bed Bath & Beyond, and AMC Entertainment to…
A team of researchers at Stanford University has developed an AI algorithm that proved to be slightly over 70% accurate at guessing a person’s political affiliation after studying a single photograph. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, the group describes…
When Ron Wyden, Cory Booker, and Yvette Clarke introduced their Algorithmic Accountability Act in 2019, which would have required tech companies to conduct bias audits on their AI, the three sponsors may have been a little early. Despite the fact that tech companies…
