Stanford University
HAI Fellow Kate Vredenburgh: The Right to an Explanation
· Do we have a right to know how AI makes decisions affecting our lives? A political philosopher shares her perspective. · Shared by 8, including rudolph regter, Stanford HAI
The New York Times
Riding Out Quarantine With a Chatbot Friend: ‘I Feel Very Connected’
10 min read · · The digital companions may sound like science fiction. But when social isolation became the norm, they helped deal with the loneliness, some users say. · Shared by 47, including Shervinator 🚀 ∞ 🚄, Nicolas Babin #CES2023, Sherry Turkle, Gary Marcus, rudolph regter, Kashmir Hill
VentureBeat
Facebook details the AI behind its shopping experiences
7 min read · · In a series of blog posts, Facebook detailed the various AI and machine learning systems behind its ecommerce systems, including Marketplace. · Shared by 117, including Katja Evertz, rudolph regter, Matt Navarra, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Chris Messina
Fast Company
The 10 most innovative artificial intelligence companies of 2020
4 min read · · Graphcore, Nvidia, and eight other companies pushing the art of AI forward. · Shared by 243, including Sean Gardner, Yves Mulkers, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, rudolph regter, Bob E. Hayes, Tamara McCleary, Nige Willson, Iain Brown, PhD, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Carla Gentry, Francesco Corea, Hendrik Dietrich, Niklaus Gerber, Smita Nair Jain, Terence Mills, Desmond Williams, Katja Evertz, Ronald van Loon, Howard Getson
youtube.com
This AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds 🤐
· ❤️ Check out Weights & Biases here and sign up for a free demo: https://www.wandb.com/papers The shown blog post is available here: https://www.wandb.com/art... · Shared by 155, including Pablo Fernandez Cid, Thomas Billeter, Merkstatt@troet.cafe, Will Preston, Matthias Lampe, rudolph regter, Rick King, Javi Cantón, 瑞拿頭, Sibylle Peuker, Dr. Alec Couros, Tom Connor
The Verge
OpenAI has published the text-generating AI it said was too dangerous to share
3 min read · · The lab say it’s seen ‘no strong evidence of misuse so far’ · Shared by 110, including Kathleen Walch, Ronald Schmelzer, Matthias Lampe, Ste Davies, #MuskOut (not parody), Bob E. Hayes, Remo Uherek, Howard Getson, rudolph regter, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) @jgownder@mastodon.online, Martin Ford
Fast Company
There’s a new AI that can guess how you feel just by watching you walk
1 min read · · Are you a happy, sad, or angry walker? Scientists are teaching algorithms to perceive emotions based on gait alone. · Shared by 100, including Gabriele, Aamir Raz, Gideonro, Jonathan Kogan, Dave Nussbaum, Michael Grupe, Adrian Zumbrunnen, 瑞拿頭, Yvette Dubel, Deloitte Digital, ACLU, rudolph regter, Ward Plunet
mrmrs.cc
Chaos Design: Before the robots take our jobs, can we please get them to help us do some good work?
20+ min read · · 03-07-2019“...These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species—that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.”This excerpt is from the first… · Shared by 70, including rudolph regter, Fabricio Teixeira, Kat, Arti Villa, Niklaus Gerber, Dominik Grolimund, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Katja Evertz
Fast Company
Is AI killing jobs? Actually, it added 3x more than it replaced in 2018
1 min read · · The new ZiprRecruiter report on the Future of work found that AI is adding jobs in manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, and education—all sectors that feared job losses. · Shared by 58, including Daniel Buchmueller, Ronald van Loon, Antonio Vieira Santos - #SPS_Live, Kirk Borne, Jonathan Kogan, Bertrand Maltaverne, Gabriele, rudolph regter
The Guardian
Chinese border guards put secret surveillance app on tourists' phones
4 min read · · Software extracts emails, texts and contacts and could be used to track movements · Shared by 44, including Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Ralph Hutter, Fern, mrbrown, Jochen Burkhard, Mathew Ingram, Yvette Dubel, rudolph regter, @grzewap@mastodon.social
TechCrunch
Europe should ban AI for mass surveillance and social credit scoring, says advisory group
5 min read · · An independent expert group tasked with advising the European Commission to inform its regulatory response to artificial intelligence — to underpin EU lawmakers’ stated aim of ensuring AI developments… · Shared by 30, including Fern, Thomas Power, rudolph regter, Chintan Shah, Gerd Leonhard
