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This million-core supercomputer inspired by the human brain breaks all the rules | ZDNet - 0 views

www.zdnet.com/...man-brain-breaks-all-the-rules

ITGS neuralnetwork supercomputer ai parallel

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  • dr tech on 06 Feb 19
     
    ""There's no sense in which this is a technology that will lead the science fiction walking, talking, intelligent robot", says Furber, "because they'd need a head the size of an aircraft hangar and a nuclear power station attached to it.""
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How Autonomous Cars Will Reshape Our World - WSJ - 0 views

www.wsj.com/...l-reshape-our-world-1539871201

ITGS ai autonomous vehicle people and machines reliability ethics

shared by dr tech on 11 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 11 Feb 19
     
    "Everything around us will be altered by autonomous vehicles-our roads, our warehouses and even our definition of what a car can be. Say goodbye to four wheels and a running board; the cars of the future will barely resemble the vehicles choking our cities today."
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Robots and AI to give doctors more time with patients, says report | Society | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...time-with-patients-says-report

ITGS ai robots doctors people and machines patients

shared by dr tech on 12 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 12 Feb 19
     
    "Robots, artificial intelligence and smart speakers will ease the burden on doctors and give them more time with patients, according to an NHS report on the pending technological "revolution" in healthcare. Developments in the ability to sequence individuals' genomes - the entirety of their genetic data - will also spur on advances, according to the review published on Monday."
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One person, one click: is this how to save democracy? | Paolo Gerbaudo | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...litical-parties-democratic-m5s

ITGS democracy digital politics and government equality of access

shared by dr tech on 13 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 13 Feb 19
     
    "We may be only just starting to understand how digital democracy can help address the crisis of legitimacy that is affecting different levels of the political process."
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BBC - Future - Can this technology put an end to bullying? - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...ligence-can-help-stop-bullying

ITGS ai bullying people and machines machine learning

shared by dr tech on 17 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Feb 19
     
    "His team trained a machine learning algorithm to spot words and phrases associated with bullying on social media site AskFM, which allows users to ask and answer questions. It managed to detect and block almost two-thirds of insults within almost 114,000 posts in English and was more accurate than a simple keyword search. Still, it did struggle with sarcastic remarks."
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This Person Does Not Exist Is the Best One-Off Website of 2019 | Inverse - 0 views

www.inverse.com/...on-does-not-exist-gans-website

ai ITGS machine learning GAN image deepfake

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  • dr tech on 17 Feb 19
     
    "At their core, GANs consist of two networks: the generator and discriminator. These computer programs compete against each other millions-upon-millions of times to refine their image generating skills until they're good enough to create the full-fledged pictures."
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Germany Creates Ethics Rules for Autonomous Vehicles - Robotics Business Review - 0 views

www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/...hics-rules-autonomous-vehicles

ITGS ai autonomous vehicle ethics robotics germany machine learning

shared by dr tech on 17 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Feb 19
     
    ""The ethics commission has done pioneering work and has developed the world's first guidelines for automated driving. We are now implementing these guidelines." The ethics rules address a classic thought experiment: the "trolley problem.""
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Moore's Law is dying. Here's how AI is bringing it back to life! - 0 views

towardsdatascience.com/g-it-back-to-life-c9a469bc7a5a

ITGS MooresLaw hardware reliability

shared by dr tech on 09 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 09 Feb 19
     
    "The turning point happened in 2005, when the transistors, while continuing to double in numbers, were neither faster nor more energy-efficient at the same rates as before."
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New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...writes-convincing-news-fiction

AI ITGS deepfake text authenticity integrity

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  • dr tech on 15 Feb 19
     
    "The creators of a revolutionary AI system that can write news stories and works of fiction - dubbed "deepfakes for text" - have taken the unusual step of not releasing their research publicly, for fear of potential misuse."
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Revealed: Facebook enables ads to target users interested in 'vaccine controversies' | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ertising-targeting-controversy

ITGS facebook advertising privacy and anonymity fake news filter bubble

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  • dr tech on 17 Feb 19
     
    "Facebook enables advertisers to promote content to nearly 900,000 people interested in "vaccine controversies", the Guardian has found. Other groups of people that advertisers can pay to reach on Facebook include those interested in "Dr Tenpenny on Vaccines", which refers to anti-vaccine activist Sherri Tenpenny, and "informed consent", which is language that anti-vaccine propagandists have adopted to fight vaccination laws."
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YouTube's algorithms demonitizes piano tutorial site for "Repetitious content" / Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...tubes-algorithms-demoniti.html

ITGS google monetise social media algorithms reliability integrity

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  • dr tech on 18 Feb 19
     
    "learning to play a musical instrument, you have to play the same songs and scales over and over again. YouTube's algorithm doesn't seem to know this, and so it demonetized a piano tutorial channel for "Repetitious content.""
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Engineers Created a Robot That Can Imagine Itself - 0 views

curiosity.com/...t-can-imagine-itself-curiosity

ITGS ai selfawareness robot machine learning people and machines

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  • dr tech on 20 Feb 19
     
    "self-awareness: Columbia engineers created a robot that could figure out what it looked like without any external input. In essence, it could imagine itself"
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Police across the US are training crime-predicting AIs on falsified data - MIT Technology Review - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...algorithms-ai-crime-dirty-data

ITGS police GIGO data integrity security surveillance

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  • dr tech on 23 Feb 19
     
    "The system used historical data, including arrest records and electronic police reports, to forecast crime and help shape public safety strategies, according to company and city government materials. At no point did those materials suggest any effort to clean or amend the data to address the violations revealed by the DOJ. In all likelihood, the corrupted data was fed directly into the system, reinforcing the department's discriminatory practices."
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Are you being scanned? How facial recognition technology follows you, even as you shop | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...y-follows-you-even-as-you-shop

ITGS facial recognition ai advertising privacy and anonymity

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  • dr tech on 24 Feb 19
     
    "Westfield's Smartscreen network was developed by the French software firm Quividi back in 2015. Their discreet cameras capture blurry images of shoppers and apply statistical analysis to identify audience demographics. And once the billboards have your attention they hit record, sharing your reaction with advertisers. Quividi says their billboards can distinguish shoppers' gender with 90% precision, five categories of mood from "very happy to very unhappy" and customers' age within a five-year bracket."
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Facebook's content moderation a mess, employees outraged, contractors have PTSD: Reports / Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...ebooks-content-moderation.html

ITGS facebook memory ethics integrity authenticity fakenews control

shared by dr tech on 26 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 26 Feb 19
     
    "Of all the disturbing parts of this @CaseyNewton piece about Facebook content reviewers -- and there are many -- the one about people slowly coming to believe the conspiracy theories sticks with me https://t.co/ulDx3PEaWa"
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Could robots make us better humans? | Technology | The Guardian - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...d-robots-make-us-better-humans

ITGS ai people and machines control

shared by dr tech on 05 Mar 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 05 Mar 19
     
    ""My PhD students seem to have to spend three years just getting to the point where they understand what's being asked of them," he says. Once again, he looks pained. "We seem to be hitting problems that will require so many strands that one mind isn't going to be able to pull them together.""
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Obscure no-deal Brexit group is UK's biggest political spender on Facebook | Politics | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-political-spender-on-facebook

ITGS facebook anonymity advertising control politics and government

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  • dr tech on 10 Mar 19
     
    "The single biggest known British political advertiser on Facebook is a mysterious pro-Brexit campaign group pushing for a no-deal exit from the EU. The revelation about Britain's Future, which has never disclosed the source of its funding or organisational structure, has raised concerns about the influence of "dark money" in British politics."
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Creative Adversarial Networks: GANs that make art / Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...novelty-discerner.html

ITGS ai art people and machines machine learning authenticity integrity

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  • dr tech on 10 Mar 19
     
    "The underlying theory is that art evolves "through small alterations to a known style that produce a new one," which, as Ian Bogost (previously) points out, is "a convenient take, given that any machine-learning technique has to base its work on a specific training set.""
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