computer science "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow
Science Scite: a tool to find out if a scientific paper has been supported or contradicted since its publication Cory Doctorow
Business Many of the key Googler Uprising organizers have quit, citing retaliation from senior management Cory Doctorow
computer science AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect Cory Doctorow
facebook Instagram's new solution against bullying: Artificial Intelligence, and 'Restrict' Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Using machine learning to pull Krazy Kat comics out of giant public domain newspaper archives Cory Doctorow
books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow
eu EU expert panel calls for a ban on AI-based risk-scoring and limits on mass surveillance Cory Doctorow
security Independent evaluation of "aggression detection" microphones used in schools and hospitals finds them to be worse than useless Cory Doctorow
computer science Finally, a useful application for augmented reality: rendering virtual kitchen roaches Cory Doctorow
scholarship Machine learning classifiers are up to 20% less accurate when labeling photos from homes in poor countries Cory Doctorow
scholarship Training a modest machine-learning model uses more carbon than the manufacturing and lifetime use of five automobiles Cory Doctorow
News Microsoft takes down MS Celeb facial recognition database, 10 million+ pics of ~100,000 faces, maybe yours, scraped under Creative Commons Xeni Jardin
computer science DARPA's Spectrum Collaboration Challenge: finally some progress towards a "Cognitive Radio" future Cory Doctorow
