Tag Archives: machinelearning

Sep 21

Via Raja Mitra.

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Via Raja Mitra.

I can imagine a story in which all the human characters work with AIs. One of them parents AIs to socialise them; one plays D&D with them to teach them about human interaction and storytelling; and one watches them for signs of bias and corrects it.

Originally shared by Eli Fennell

New IBM Tool Aims To Detect A.I. Bias

For all the promise of Artificial Intelligence, it also carries a huge risk: their algorithms can develop biases, and these biases can frequently be invisible to its human creators and operators, and quite dangerous as well.

IBM wants to help solve this with their new Fairness 360 Kit, a new project to detect biases in A.I. and make humans aware of them. Open source and designed to work with many commonly used frameworks for building learning algorithms, Fairness Kit 360 aims to provide Real Time insights, via a visual dashboard, into how learning algorithms are making their decisions.

This represents another valuable approach in solving the A.I. “Black Box Problem”, along with teaching A.I.’s to be better at showing their work (http://bit.ly/2xtugL9), and utilizing more transparent learning systems (http://bit.ly/2NjMBo7).

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45561955

Jul 31

China Racing To Bring AI To International Diplomacy

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Originally shared by Eli Fennell

China Racing To Bring AI To International Diplomacy

Prototypes of a system for using Machine Learning to bring Artificial Intelligence into the diplomatic arena are reportedly under development in China, and may soon play a key role in many aspects of their foreign policy.

The goal of the system is to analyze a wide range of data, from advanced technical intelligence gathering reports down to gossip, in order to suggest a variety of courses of action, including suggested actions, to aid in the diplomatic efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

While it is unlikely that such a system will ever be empowered to function autonomously, with humans remaining in charge of making final choices (especially given the inherently humanistic considerations of diplomacy), its ramifications go beyond improved diplomatic success and efficiency. Such systems may level the playing field for nations with less well developed diplomatic apparati, or even give them an advantage, against nations with such apparati but which invest less or not at all in the same technology.

It is unclear if the U.S. Department of State is operating anything similar or intends to do so in the near future, though Big Data and other technical tools have certainly been aiding U.S. Diplomats for many years now.

This news is well timed, as it comes at the same time as a report by the Center for New American Security (http://bit.ly/2vhGTqY) warns that China may be catching Western powers flat footed in this area, and that AI may disrupt geopolitics as as much as electricity or the combustion engine.

#AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157223/artificial-intelligence-immune-fear-or-favour-helping-make-chinas

Nov 26

Wasn’t there an issue a while back where one of the camera companies designed their product in such a way that it…

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Wasn’t there an issue a while back where one of the camera companies designed their product in such a way that it only did a good job of photographing white faces – since that’s what it was tested on?

Originally shared by Gideon Rosenblatt

Machined Prejudice

Technology bias can amplify the worst of human nature. How do we keep it out of artificial intelligence?

We’re now seeing more and more cases of institutional and individual human bias creeping into search engines, social media and other technological systems. How this bias infiltrates our tools in is an old story, of course, but we’re starting to see new types of bias that say a lot about the way we build and use artificial intelligence. 

Technology bias is a problem that few of us think much about, but which has the potential to be incredibly important as more and more of our economy — and society — come under the control of artificially intelligent systems. 

#technology #bias #MachineLearning #culture

http://www.the-vital-edge.com/technology-bias/

Nov 06

Not one, but two drone delivery mechanisms, steel-hard glass, better memory through electronic implants, and…

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Not one, but two drone delivery mechanisms, steel-hard glass, better memory through electronic implants, and self-improving cars.

What a time to be alive.

Originally shared by Larry Panozzo

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Highly sensitive artificial skin, a new electric car brand, glass almost as strong as steel, a device that boosts human memory, the success of Tesla’s Autopilot, drone delivery from Google, a robot that delivers groceries for £1, and 3D printed artificial hair! It’s all in the links below!

• Artificial Skin That Detects Texture, Temperature, Pressure, and Sound

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/electronic-skin-feels-heat-hears-sound?mode=magazine&context=190830

• Mysterious Electric Car Maker

http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/5/9674314/faraday-future-electric-car-1-billion-factory

• Unbreakable Glass

http://gizmodo.com/japanese-researchers-make-glass-thats-nearly-unbreakabl-1739673940

• Memory Boosting Device

http://gizmodo.com/japanese-researchers-make-glass-thats-nearly-unbreakabl-1739673940

• Tesla Autopilot is Learning

http://electrek.co/2015/10/30/the-autopilot-is-learning-fast-model-s-owners-are-already-reporting-that-teslas-autopilot-is-self-improving/

• Google Drone Delivery Service in 2017 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34704868

• Grocery Delivery Bot

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11962566/Skype-founders-invent-self-driving-robot-that-can-deliver-groceries-for-1.html

• 3D printing Artificial Hair

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/10/sorry-hair-club-for-menwe-can-finally-3d-print-hair/

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