In 2012, economist Robert Gordon published a controversial paper in which he argued that economic growth was largely over, due in no small part to our failure to maintain the engines of innovation in recent decades. A study from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research…
Pitching an idea to seasoned investors can be a nerve-wracking experience. This is particularly true for first-time entrepreneurs in highly specialized fields like artificial intelligence (AI). Before reaching an agreement with a company, a venture capitalist (VC) will need to be certain…
It’s hard to tell what’s real and what isn’t. If one of your executives or your company is the victim of deepfakes, what’s IT going to do about it? Deepfakes (aka synthetic media) can spread misinformation and disinformation very effectively. The 2020…
A study was conducted on the business adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the 1980s. Published in the MIS Quarterly, the study found that enterprises were rushing to invest in AI, and the projected market value was $4 billion. However, the results were shocking….
A controversial study conducted by a pair of Stanford researchers found the artificial intelligence they trained could fairly accurately determine the sexual orientation of both men and women. Not surprisingly given the topic, the findings unleashed a wave of resentment from behalf…
The combine harvester, a staple of farmers’ fields since the late 1800s, does much more these days than just vacuum up corn, soybeans and other crops. It also beams back reams of data to its manufacturer. GPS records the combine’s precise path…
“Seeing is believing” or is it? There once was a time when we could have confidence that what we saw depicted in photos and videos was real. Even when Photoshopping images became popular, we still knew that the images started as originals….
The human race has come a long way in our ability to produce food at scale. Historian and author Yuval Noah Harari refers to it in his book Sapiens as “an agricultural revolution,” using wheat as an example. Ten thousand years ago, wheat was…
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from Darren Grover, Head of Healthy Land and Seascapes at the World Wide Fund For Nature Australia. Over the next six months, more than 600 sensor cameras will be deployed in bushfire-affected areas across Australia, monitoring…
This is the sixth blogpost in a series on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights from Data & Society. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in commercial, government, and corporate systems that provide services to as well as monitor billions of people around the…
