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How to Stop Robots From Becoming Racist
In 2017, Holliday contributed to a RAND report warning that resolving bias in machine learning requires hiring diverse teams and…
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Wikipedia Articles Sway Some Legal Judgments
In 2005, the Irish Supreme Court ruled in favor of a woman who sued a landowner for compensation in 1997…
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Meta Was Restricting Abortion Content All Along
Johnsen’s experience is common in the pro-choice activist community. Most of the people who spoke to WIRED say their content…
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Inside DALL-E Mini, the Internet’s Favorite Artificial Intelligence Meme Machine
On June 6, Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source artificial intelligence projects, saw traffic to an AI image-generation…
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Feds Warn Employers Against Discriminatory Hiring Algorithms
As companies increasingly involve AI in their hiring processes, advocates, lawyers, and researchers have continued to sound the alarm. Algorithms…
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How 10 Skin Tones Will Reshape Google’s Approach to AI
For years, tech companies have relied on something called the Fitzpatrick scale to classify skin tones for their computer vision…
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DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See
Upon release of GPT-2 in February 2019, OpenAI adopted a staggered approach to the release of the largest form of…
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Elon Musk’s Plan to Open Source the Twitter Algorithm Won’t Solve Anything
“In this age of machine learning, it isn’t the algorithms, it’s the data,” says David Karger, a professor and computer…
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The Future of the Web Is Marketing Copy Generated by Algorithms
As we move further into the 21st century, more and more aspects of our lives are being controlled by algorithms.…
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YouTube’s Captions Insert Explicit Language in Kids’ Videos
Nearly 400,000 people subscribe to the YouTube account Rob the Robot – Learning Videos For Children. In one 2020 video,…
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