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Alondra Nelson Wants to Make Science and Tech More Just
The pandemic taught us a lesson that we needed to learn again, says Alondra Nelson: Science and technology have everything…
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Google Launches a New Medical App—Outside the US
Billions of times each year, people turn to Google’s web search box for help figuring out what’s wrong with their…
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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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Apple and Google’s New AI Wizardry Promises Privacy—at a Cost
Since the dawn of the iPhone, many of the smarts in smartphones have come from elsewhere: the corporate computers known…
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Zillow Taps AI to Improve Its Home Value Estimates
Stories of people getting cash offers for their homes tens of thousands of dollars over asking price have become normal.…
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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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Covid Brings Automation to the Workplace, Killing Some Jobs
Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken, a fast-food chain in Ohio, hardly seems an obvious venue for cutting-edge artificial intelligence. But the…
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