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If YouTube Algorithms Radicalize Users, Data Doesn’t Show It
We’ve all seen it happen: Watch one video on YouTube and your recommendations shift, as if Google’s algorithms think the…
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These Algorithms Look at X-Rays—and Somehow Detect Your Race
Millions of dollars are being spent to develop artificial intelligence software that reads x-rays and other medical scans in hopes…
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As the Use of AI Spreads, Congress Looks to Rein It In
There’s bipartisan agreement in Washington that the US government should do more to support development of artificial intelligence technology. The…
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This Agency Wants to Figure Out Exactly How Much You Trust AI
Harvard University assistant professor Himabindu Lakkaraju studies the role trust plays in human decisionmaking in professional settings. She’s working with…
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An Algorithm That Predicts Deadly Infections Is Often Flawed
A complication of infection known as sepsis is the number one killer in US hospitals. So it’s not surprising that…
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The Efforts to Make Text-Based AI Less Racist and Terrible
In another test, Xudong Shen, a National University of Singapore PhD student, rated language models based on how much they…
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What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru
In April 1998, two Stanford grad students named Larry Page and Sergey Brin presented an algorithm called PageRank at a…
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Google Hopes AI Can Turn Search Into a Conversation
Google often uses its annual developer conference, I/O, to showcase artificial intelligence with a wow factor. In 2016, it introduced…
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GPT-3 Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers
When OpenAI demonstrated a powerful artificial intelligence algorithm capable of generating coherent text last June, its creators warned that the…
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Twitter’s Photo Crop Algorithm Favors White Faces and Women
Last fall, Canadian student Colin Madland noticed that Twitter’s automatic cropping algorithm continually selected his face—not his darker-skinned colleague—from photos…
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