More than 40 million people worldwide are the victim of slavery. Emerging technology, including artificial intelligence, can help combat the practice. It can reveal trends in payments and help identify victims. Despite legalised slavery being abolished in the UK in 1833 and…
There’s been no shortage of documentaries covering the perils of Big Tech. Most recently, Netflix’s The Social Dilemma made waves, for better or worse, as it leaned on insiders to unpack the manipulative designs of social media algorithms. Now filmmaker Shalini Kantayya is digging deeper into…
The need to pursue racial justice is more urgent than ever, especially in the technology industry. The far-reaching scope and power of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) means that any gender and racial bias at the source is multiplied to the nth power…
MEN OFTEN JUDGE women by their appearance. Turns out, computers do too. When US and European researchers fed pictures of congressmembers to Google’s cloud image recognition service, the service applied three times as many annotations related to physical appearance to photos of women as…
False news has consistently been growing around us, primarily as clickbait, and often tends to go viral. These are articles and stories created solely to mislead and misinform people into believing narratives that otherwise hold no merit. According to research published in Science magazine, the propagation of such…
Algorithm was trained, tested on the largest COVID-era dataset (17,002 X-ray images) Algorithm analyzed X-ray images of lungs about 10 times faster, 1-6% more accurately than individual specialized radiologists Algorithm is now publicly available for other researchers to continue to train it…
JULIAN GREEN WAS explaining the big problem with meetings when our meeting started to glitch. The pixels of his face rearranged themselves. A sentence came out as hiccups. Then he sputtered, froze, and ghosted. Green and I had been chatting on Headroom, a new video…
Integrating AI and machine learning with energy will help speed up the adoption of renewable sources Covid-19 may have overwhelmed us, bringing lives and livelihoods to a standstill but it is not the biggest problem confronting the world. A far greater crisis…
It’s been a strange year, to say the least. Despite the total chaos, it’s a critical and exhilarating time to work in Artificial Intelligence. Whether you want to identify election fraud, understand climate change, or improve health care, machine learning is innovating…
AT A HEARING of the House Intelligence Committee in June 2019, experts warned of the democracy-distorting potential of videos generated by artificial intelligence, known as deepfakes. Chair Adam Schiff (D-California) played a clip spoofing Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and called on social media companies to take the threat…
