by crissly | Sep 9, 2021 | AI Hub, AI Hub / Application / Ethics, AI Hub / Application / Face recognition, AI Hub / End User / Government, AI Hub / Sector / Public safety, Ideas
Two decades after 9/11, many simple acts that were once taken for granted now seem unfathomable: strolling with loved ones to the gate of their flight, meandering through a corporate plaza, using streets near government buildings. Our metropolises’ commons are now...
by crissly | Jul 27, 2021 | AI Hub, AI Hub / Application / Ethics, AI Hub / Company / Alphabet, AI Hub / Company / Google, AI Hub / Company / Microsoft, AI Hub / Sector / Research, Ideas
Despite the executive orders and congressional hearings of the “Biden antitrust revolution,” the most profound anti-competitive shift is happening under policymakers’ noses: the cornering of artificial intelligence and automation by a handful of tech companies. This...
by crissly | Jul 20, 2021 | AI Hub, AI Hub / Application / Ethics, AI Hub / Application / Face recognition, AI Hub / Technology / Machine vision, AI Hub / Technology / Natural language processing, Ideas
In the realm of international cybersecurity, “dual use” technologies are capable of both affirming and eroding human rights. Facial recognition may identify a missing child, or make anonymity impossible. Hacking may save lives by revealing key intel on a terrorist...
by crissly | Jun 8, 2021 | AI Hub, AI Hub / Application / Ethics, AI Hub / Application / Text analysis, AI Hub / Company / Alphabet, AI Hub / Company / Google, AI Hub / End User / Research, AI Hub / Sector / Research, AI Hub / Technology / Natural language processing, Backchannel, Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence
In April 1998, two Stanford grad students named Larry Page and Sergey Brin presented an algorithm called PageRank at a conference in Australia. A month later, war broke out between Ethiopia and Eritrea, setting off a two-year border conflict that left tens of...
by crissly | May 26, 2021 | AI Hub, AI Hub / Application / Ethics, AI Hub / Source Data / Images, AI Hub / Source Data / Sensors, AI Hub / Technology / Machine learning, AI Hub / Technology / Machine vision, Ideas
When the European Union Commission released its regulatory proposal on artificial intelligence last month, much of the US policy community celebrated. Their praise was at least partly grounded in truth: The world’s most powerful democratic states haven’t sufficiently...
by crissly | May 19, 2021 | AI Hub, AI Hub / Application / Content moderation, AI Hub / Application / Ethics, AI Hub / Application / Recommendation algorithm, AI Hub / End User / Big company, AI Hub / End User / Consumer, AI Hub / Sector / Social media, AI Hub / Source Data / Images, AI Hub / Technology / Machine vision, Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence
Last fall, Canadian student Colin Madland noticed that Twitter’s automatic cropping algorithm continually selected his face—not his darker-skinned colleague’s—from photos of the pair to display in tweets. The episode ignited accusations of bias as a flurry of Twitter...
