Created by a bot
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Created by a bot
Kill all humans
Created by a bot
Kill all humans
Created by a bot
Kill all humans
Persuading the algorithm
J. Nathan Matthias from MIT published the results of a study consisting on outsourcing to readers the job of suggesting algorithms that a source requires fact-checking. His group calls this approach “AI Nudging”, the principle being that “we can persuade algorithms to behave differently by persuading people to behave differently”. “Across the internet, people learn […]
Elbphilharmonie
“Using these requirements as parameters, Koren developed an algorithm that produced 10,000 panels, each with a unique shape and pattern, mapped to clear aesthetic and acoustic specifications. “That’s the power of parametric design,” he says. “Once all of that is in place, I hit play and it creates a million cells, all different and all […]
First International Beauty Contest Judged by Artificial Intelligence
“This has enabled the Youth laboratories team of biogerontologists and data scientists, who believe that in the near future machines will be able to get a lot of vital medical information about people’s health by just processing their photos, to develop a set of algorithms that can accurately evaluate the criteria linked to perception of […]
Magical Black Boxes
“Even if we do have access to the innards of the algorithm, they are getting so complicated it’s almost futile to get inside them,” said Srebro. “The whole point of machine learning is to build magical black boxes.” (source accessed 20.12.2016)
Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster
“Automation will routinely tidy up ordinary messes, but occasionally create an extraordinary mess.” […] “We are now on more lists than ever before, and computers have turned filing cabinets full of paper into instantly searchable, instantly actionable banks of data. Increasingly, computers are managing these databases, with no need for humans to get involved or […]
There is a blind spot in AI research
“Artificial intelligence presents a cultural shift as much as a technical one. This is similar to technological inflection points of the past, such as the introduction of the printing press or the railways. Autonomous systems are changing workplaces, streets and schools. We need to ensure that those changes are beneficial, before they are built further […]
Mystery 8% drop in value of Sterling
“The most popular was that computer-driven algorithmic systems – known as algos – were the cause because they are programmed to sell the pound on negative Brexit headlines. According to this theory the algos had picked up on a report in the Financial Times quoting the French president, François Hollande, as saying that Britain would […]
Build a facial recognition API and let the porn use-cases flourish
“It claims to be the first live sex webcam site to implement face search. “A lot of people watching porn have someone in mind and try to fulfill this fantasy by finding a doppelgänger doing porn. Searching for it using textual searches is very hard, that’s where technology comes in. Facial recognition is far more […]
When your boss is an algorithm
“It’s hard to spread the word when you don’t even know who your colleagues are. But the couriers have an idea. They open their apps as customers and order food to be delivered to them. As UberEats couriers arrive with pizzas at the place their app has sent them, the strikers tell them about the […]
Algorithms are ruining millions of lives
“Models are opinions embedded in mathematics.” […] “Many forms of WMD were deployed as an answer to institutional bias — in criminal sentencing, in school grading, in university admissions, in hiring and lending. The models are supposed to be race- and gender-blind, blind to privilege and connections. But all too often, the models are trained […]
Dataism and human obsolescence
“If humankind is indeed a single data-processing system, what is its output? Dataists would say that its output will be the creation of a new and even more efficient data-processing system, called the Internet-of-All-Things. Once this mission is accomplished, Homo sapiens will vanish.” […] “What makes humans superior to other animals? Dataism has a new […]
Drop people from the news module, operate at a greater scale
“Facebook announced late Friday that it had eliminated jobs in its trending module, the part of its news division where staff curated popular news for Facebook users. Over the weekend, the fully automated Facebook trending module pushed out a false story about Fox News host Megyn Kelly, a controversial piece about a comedian’s four-letter word […]
EU regulations on algorithms
“With a few paragraphs buried in the measure’s reams of bureaucrat-speak, the GDPR also restricts what the EU calls “automated individual decision-making.” And for the world’s biggest tech companies, that’s a potential problem. “Automated individual decision-making” is what neural networks do. “They’re talking about machine learning,” says Bryce Goodman” […] “The regulations prohibit any automated […]
Should robots have to pay taxes?
“If robots are going to steal human jobs and otherwise disrupt society, they should at the very least pay taxes.” […] “Can a robot express intention? I think the answer is very simple when it comes to noncomplex algorithms, but when it gets more complex, I think we have a problem,” Pawel Kwiatkowski of Gessel […]
Why you should be nice to your robots
“it’s hard to bark orders at a machine without feeling like the kind of obnoxious person who barks orders at waiters” […] “We love our Amazon Echo… but I fear it’s also turning our daughter into a raging asshole,” […] “How’s a four-year-old supposed to learn that other household members aren’t simply there to do […]
Tune-out of conference calls
“While Newlan is on the call, his computer microphone listens in while a python script runs on his computer. IBM Watson’s speech-to-text service also transcribes what’s happening on the call. When Newlan’s name is mentioned, the program automatically sends him a transcript of what was said a minute before and a little bit after so […]
Memo Atken: A Digital God for a Digital culture
“Now we are living in times of increasing technological surveillance. In this post-Snowden era we are more aware of the extent of this invasion of privacy than ever. But how have the general public reacted to the Snowden Revelations? It seems the general mood is apathetic — perhaps even sympathetic, finding safety and comfort in knowing that […]
The Architect of These Monstrous, Alien Cities Is an Algorithm
Wired looking more like BuzzFeed every day with tendentious titles on this article about the work of designer Daniel Brown. “So instead of climbing a mountain, I’m mining this mathematical space looking for the same thing—that beautiful destination that nobody’s ever heard of or seen before.” (source accessed 7-6-2016)
Chinese bitcoin mine: in the future we will use technology to make products
“The town itself is so high up in the mountains that you have to bring your own cans of oxygen. Mobile phone signals frequently disappear around the mountains and valleys that surround the township. But high speed wi-fi makes video calls and chat apps the main mode of communication.” “My guide is 30-year-old Chandler Guo, […]
Superhuman
“Their approach is straightforward, at least in the world of machine learning. Weyand and co begin by dividing the world into a grid consisting of over 26,000 squares of varying size that depend on the number of images taken in that location.” “Needless to say, PlaNet trounced the humans. “In total, PlaNet won 28 of […]
Art as an optimization problem
“Recently a roster of programs, like ArtRank and Art Advisor, have been developed for the sale of art. ISCA dials the quantification process back earlier in the process of an artwork’s life to its production. As the voice of the automated narrator intones in the video, ISCA is “a grand experiment, part think tank and […]