scholarship Training a modest machine-learning model uses more carbon than the manufacturing and lifetime use of five automobiles Cory Doctorow
computer science DARPA's Spectrum Collaboration Challenge: finally some progress towards a "Cognitive Radio" future Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The Training Commission: an email newsletter from the future, after a civil war and digital blackout Cory Doctorow
AI Ever, an "unlimited photo storage app," secretly fed its users' photos to a face-recognition system pitched to military customers UPDATE Cory Doctorow
security Towards a method for fixing machine learning's persistent and catastrophic blind spots Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The glorious glitch aesthetic of a machine learning system's attempt to remove cars from a video Cory Doctorow
privacy Facebook hands hundreds of contractors in India access to its users' private messages and private Instagram posts in order to help train an AI Cory Doctorow
events To do in NYC next Sat, May 11: "The Bigot in the Machine," a panel on algorithmic bias from PEN and McSweeney's Cory Doctorow
google Gmail's automated spam-filtering is making it much harder to run an independent mail-server Cory Doctorow
art Artist designs a machine-learning assisted sculpture, then casts it in the powdered remains of the computer used to design it Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon stores recordings of Alexa interactions and turns them over to internal staff and outside contractors for review Cory Doctorow
Business Googler uprising leads to shut down of AI ethics committee that included the president of the Heritage Foundation Cory Doctorow
security Small stickers on the ground trick Tesla autopilot into steering into opposing traffic lane Cory Doctorow
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