AI Philadelphia city council candidate says his secret AI has discovered disqualifying fraud in the nominations of 30 out of 33 candidates Cory Doctorow

language Some pretty impressive machine-learning generated poetry courtesy of GPT-2 Cory Doctorow

AI Palmer Luckey wins secretive Pentagon contract to develop AI for drones Cory Doctorow

Business Creative Adversarial Networks: GANs that make art Cory Doctorow

scholarship A machine-learning system that guesses whether text was produced by machine-learning systems Cory Doctorow

events Where to catch me this weekend at SXSW Cory Doctorow

floss Common Voice: Mozilla releases the largest dataset of voice samples for free, for all Cory Doctorow

machine learning This cat doesn't exist either Rob Beschizza

scholarship Even without explicit collusion, pricing algorithms converge on price-fixing strategies Cory Doctorow

corruption Beyond GIGO: how "predictive policing" launders racism, corruption and bias to make them seem empirical Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Chasing down that list of potential Predpol customers reveals dozens of cities that have secretly experimented with "predictive policing" Cory Doctorow

aviation A service to help airline passengers get compensated for lost bags, delays, cancellations and overbookings Cory Doctorow

art Afrofuturist artist creates gorgeous portraits with Deep Dreaming Cory Doctorow

surveillance American prisoners coerced or tricked into providing voice-prints for use in eternal, secret, unchecked surveillance Cory Doctorow

art Salvador Dalí reborn as a deepfake at his museum David Pescovitz

surveillance The Safe Face Pledge: an ethical code of conduct for facial recognition scientists and developers Cory Doctorow

human rights Math against crimes against humanity: Using rigorous statistics to prove genocide when the dead cannot speak for themselves Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Building a high-performance cluster of Gameboy emulators to teach computers to play video games Cory Doctorow

machine learning Tumblr's porn filter blocked Tumblr's images illustrating what Tumblr's porn filter won't block Cory Doctorow

machine learning Neural network renders fake urban environments for videogames Mark Frauenfelder