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Twitter’s Photo-Cropping Algorithm Favors Young, Thin Females
In May, Twitter said that it would stop using an artificial intelligence algorithm found to favor white and female faces…
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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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This New Way to Train AI Could Curb Online Harassment
For about six months last year, Nina Nørgaard met weekly for an hour with seven people to talk about sexism…
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The Pentagon Is Bolstering Its AI Systems—by Hacking Itself
The Pentagon sees artificial intelligence as a way to outfox, outmaneuver, and dominate future adversaries. But the brittle nature of…
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GitHub’s Commercial AI Tool Was Built From Open Source Code
“I’m generally happy to see expansions of free use, but I’m a little bitter when they end up benefiting massive…
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Need to Fit Billions of Transistors on a Chip? Let AI Do It
Artificial intelligence is now helping to design computer chips—including the very ones needed to run the most powerful AI code.…
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This AI Helps Police Monitor Social Media. Does It Go Too Far?
Since 2016, civil liberties groups have raised alarms about online surveillance of social media chatter by city officials and police…
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A Global Smart-City Competition Highlights China’s Rise in AI
Four years ago, organizers created the international AI City Challenge to spur the development of artificial intelligence for real-world scenarios…
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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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