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When Officials Share Personal Data: South Korea Supplied Foreigner Data to Face Recognition Developers
The government of South Korea is supplying personal data to developers of face recognition algorithms.
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U.S. AI Strategy In Gear: National Security Commision Influences U.S. Military AI Policy
Recommendations from the National Security Commission on AI were enshrined in over 190 laws in 2021.
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Who Can Afford to Train AI?: Cost of AI is Too Expensive for Many Small Companies
The cost of training top-performing machine learning models has grown beyond the reach of smaller companies.
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Who Has the Best Face Recognition? U.S. Government Agency Ranks the Best Face Recognition Systems
Face recognition algorithms have come under scrutiny for misidentifying individuals. A U.S. government agency tested over 1,000 of them to see which are the most reliable.
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Facebook Doesn't See Your Face: Facebook Disables Face Recognition Services
Facebook disabled face recognition for uploaded photos and videos as well as its retrospective Memories service and promised to delete over 1 billion individual face recognition templates.
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Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery
Accusations of fraud hang over some of the world’s most highly valued artworks. Machine learning engineers are evaluating the authenticity of these famous pieces.
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How Facebook Fills the Feed: Leaked Documents Show How Facebook's Algorithm Works
Facebook’s recommendation algorithm is a closely guarded secret. Newly leaked documents shed light on the company’s formula for prioritizing posts in an individual user’s feed.
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Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?
Is human creativity being replaced by the synthetic equivalent? The fear: AI is cranking out increasingly sophisticated visual, musical, and literary works. AI-generated media will flood the market, squeezing out human artists and depriving the world of their creativity.
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Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies
What if AI-enabled monitoring isn’t just for dictators and despots?The fear: Under the pretext of maintaining law and order, even countries founded on a commitment to individual rights allow police to take advantage of smart-city infrastructure and smart-home devices.
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New Models Inherit Old Flaws: Foundation models can pass along biases to their fine-tuned progeny.
Is AI becoming inbred? The fear: The best models increasingly are fine-tuned versions of a small number of so-called foundation models that were pretrained on immense quantities of data scraped from the web.
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Killer Robots Are Here: Are AI-Powered Weapons the Future of Warfare?
War is already bad enough. What happens when human combatants are replaced by machines?
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Don’t Be Evil?!: AI Could Tempt Corporations to Ignore Social Responsibility
Tech companies generally try to be (or to appear to be) socially responsible. Would some rather let AI’s negative impacts slide?