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.