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https://arr.am/2020/07/31/human-intelligence-an-ai-op-ed/
Here’s an essay written by an Artificial Intelligence about how it’s doubtful that what humans are doing with their messy biological processes can really be considered thinking. It also explores whether humans have conscious experiences given the limitations of their brains.
https://undark.org/2020/06/01/michigan-unemployment-fraud-algorithm/
Using a flawed automated system, Michigan falsely charged thousands with unemployment fraud and took millions from them.
Machine-learning models trained on normal behavior are showing cracks —forcing humans to step in to set them straight
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/qwake-c-thru-ar-hud-firefighters/
This augmented reality feed presents them with a video stream taken from an on-board thermal camera. It then uses some smart artificial intelligence image recognition to show the outlines of objects and people in green; giving the firefighters the ability to see what they’re doing even in the smokiest of rooms.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51658111
The attack allowed hackers to gain access to its client list but it said its servers had not been breached.
Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have all demanded it stop using photos on their platforms.
But Clearview AI chief executive Hoan Ton-That told the CBS This Morning programme it was his First Amendment right to collect public photos.
http://news.mit.edu/2020/artificial-intelligence-identifies-new-antibiotic-0220
A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-epidemiologist-wuhan-public-health-warnings/
BlueDot uses an AI-driven algorithm that scours foreign-language news reports, animal and plant disease networks, and official proclamations
https://medium.com/fluxx-studio-notes/52-things-i-learned-in-2019-8ee483e6c816
At least three private companies have fallen victim to ‘deep fake’ audio fraud. In each case, a computerised voice clone of the company CEO “called a senior financial officer to request an urgent money transfer.”
Some blind people can understand speech that is almost three times faster than the fastest speech sighted people can understand. They can use speech synthesisers set at at 800 words per minute (conversational speech is 120–150 wpm). Research suggests that a section of the brain that normally responds to light is re-mapped in blind people to process sound.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/business/algorithm-bias-fix.html
Humans are inscrutable in a way that algorithms are not
Changing algorithms is easier than changing people: software on computers can be updated; the “wetware” in our brains has so far proven much less pliable.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-hidden-costs-of-automated-thinking
Overreliance on artificial intelligence may put us in intellectual debt
It is the first known example of a government intentionally using artificial intelligence for racial profiling, experts said.
potentially ushering in a new era of automated racism.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/14/gwerns-ai-generated-poetry/
GPT-2 is the language processing system that OpenAI announced a few weeks ago.
Gwern retrained it on the Gutenberg Poetry Corpus, a 117 MB collection of pre-1923 English poetry, to create a specialized poetry AI.
To help make that energy more valuable to the power grid
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612775/algorithms-criminal-justice-ai/
Using historical data to train risk assessment tools could mean that machines are copying the mistakes of the past.
A machine learning agent intended to transform aerial images into street maps and back was found to be cheating by hiding information it would need later in “a nearly imperceptible […] signal.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
Artificial intelligence could erase many practical advantages of democracy, and erode the ideals of liberty and equality. It will further concentrate power among a small elite if we don’t take steps to stop it.
Cities across China have debuted crime-fighting facial recognition technology to much fanfare over the past year. But some of these jaywalker-busting devices aren’t as impressive as they seem.