How AI Could Take Over Elections—And Undermine Democracy
How reinforcement learning works. Third, over the course of a campaign, Clogger’s messages could evolve in order to take into account your responses to the machine’s prior dispatches and what…
What Is an AI ‘Black Box’?
Black box algorithms make it very difficult to understand how AIs work, but the situation isn’t quite black and white. Advertisement The opposite of a black box is sometimes referred…
I Created a Biased AI Algorithm 25 Years Ago—Tech Companies Are Still Making the Same Mistake.
AI researcher and artist Joy Buolamwini’s video poem ‘AI, Ain’t I a Woman?’ One suggested remedy for white privilege is to be actively anti-racist. For the 1998 head-tracking system, it…
Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody
Meta has some big AI ambitions, even as it seems like it’s long been playing catch up to OpenAI, Microsoft, and even Google. To make a bit of a splash,…
Is ChatGPT Closer to a Human Librarian Than It Is to Google?
Illustration: Phonlamai Photo (Shutterstock) CC Off English The prominent model of information access and retrieval before search engines became the norm – librarians and subject or search experts providing relevant…