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One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority - NYTimes
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.
Can AI Be a Fair Judge in Court? Estonia Thinks So - WIRED
Nvidia’s latest AI software turns rough doodles into realistic landscapes - The Verge
Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry - Slate Star Codex
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.
Google and DeepMind are using AI to predict the energy output of wind farms - The Verge
To help make that energy more valuable to the power grid
AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong - MIT Technology Review
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.
This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task - TechCrunch
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.”
Yuval Noah Harari on Why Technology Favors Tyranny - The Atlantic
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.
AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking
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.