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Why It’s So Hard to Count Twitter Bots
Automated accounts have become more sophisticated and complex in recent years. Many fake accounts are partly operated by humans, as…
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The US Military Is Building Its Own Metaverse
On May 10, two fighter pilots performed a high-altitude proto-metaverse experiment. A few thousand feet above the desert of California,…
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Widely Available AI Could Have Deadly Consequences
The researchers warned that while AI is becoming more powerful and increasingly accessible to anyone, there is nearly no regulation…
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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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Google Has a Plan to Stop Its New AI From Being Dirty and Rude
Silicon Valley CEOs usually focus on the positives when announcing their company’s next big thing. In 2007, Apple’s Steve Jobs…
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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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Europe’s New Law Will Force Secretive TikTok to Open Up
Social networks grow up faster these days. It took Facebook eight years to reach 1 billion users but TikTok got…
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To Win the Next War, the Pentagon Needs Nerds
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the US Department of Defense turned to a team of machine learning and artificial intelligence experts…
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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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