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What Makes TikTok Tick: Leaked info reveals how TikTok's algorithm works.
A leaked document gave reporters a glimpse of what makes TikTok’s renowned recommender algorithm so effective.
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Corporate Ethics Counterbalance: Timnit Gebru launches institute for AI fairness.
One year after her acrimonious exit from Google, ethics researcher Timnit Gebru launched an independent institute to study neglected issues in AI.
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Minorities Reported: Policing AI shows bias against Blacks and Latinos.
An independent investigation found evidence of racial and economic bias in a crime-prevention model used by police departments in at least nine U.S. states.
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Everyone Has a Voice: Project Relate Offers Synthesized Speech that Works in Real Time
An Android app offers speech recognition model for speech impaired by cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, or traumatic brain injury.
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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.