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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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China’s Quiet Ecommerce Giant Thrives on Fresh Produce
He Shuang, who grows pomegranates in southern Sichuan province, is a Pinduoduo New Farmer. The former flight attendant returned to…
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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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China Has Triggered a Bitcoin Mining Exodus
Alex Brammer, vice president of business development at US cryptocurrency company Luxor Tech, recounts being bombarded by calls coming from…
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Admit It: The Facebook Oversight Board Is Kind of Working
Judging from the press releases filling my inbox and the tweets lighting up my timeline, no one is happy with…
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A Google Alum Wants to Make Search Pure Again
Plus: A lesson in macro Googlenomics, an audio jamming dream, and high-stakes cheesesteaks. Source link
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Don’t End Up on This Artificial Intelligence Hall of Shame
When a person dies in a car crash in the US, data on the incident is typically reported to the…
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They Rage-Quit the School System—and They’re Not Going Back
Families shared a number of forces that drove them away from public and private schools. Some were exhausted by the…
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The All-Seeing Eyes of New York’s 15,000 Surveillance Cameras
A new video from human rights organization Amnesty International maps the locations of more than 15,000 cameras used by the…
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