2022-06-27T17:01:36+02:00
Clive Thompson makes some interesting remarks about the story of the Google engineer Blake who became convinced that Google’s conversation technology LaMDA. In a blog post he …
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Clive Thompson makes some interesting remarks about the story of the Google engineer Blake who became convinced that Google’s conversation technology LaMDA. In a blog post he …
Facebook/Meta is shutting down its facial recognition system. They explain their choice in this blog post. But the many specific instances where facial recognition can be helpful …
This article from The Economist is worth a read to understand their position on brain research and the use of primates in studies: And were laboratories in China and Japan to come …
Surprising conclusions from Twitter on a recent controversy about a bias of their image cropping algorithm towards white people and women. We considered the tradeoffs between the …
In a press release, NVIDIA announced that is apparently starting to change their GPUs to reduce their Ethereum hash rate and hence try to prevent them from being used for crypto …
An article from The Economist mentions how drone technology gets transported from the battlefields of Iraq to American cities: The notion of putting cameras on orbiting drones to …
This Bloomberg article deals with an interesting controversy surrounding the introduction of a feature called “App Tracking Transparency,” which aims to give users the option to …
The Markup reviews reviewed different examples of controversial uses of machine learning algorithms in 2020: Every year there are myriad new examples of algorithms that were either …
One of the nice things about podcasts is that usually you can usually still subscribe to them via RSS without being tracked. Advertisers however are trying to find new ways to …
The Register reports on a controversy surrounding the automatic image-cropping functionality of Twitter: When previewing pictures on the social media platform, Twitter …