Tag: ai

• Algorithmic Colonization of Africa

  August 23, 2020

  We live in a world where technological corporations hold unprecedented power and influence. Technological solutions to social, political, and economic challenges are rampant. In the Global South, technology that is… more ›

• Hour One raises $5M Seed to generate AI-driven synthetic characters from real humans

  August 18, 2020

  All of the people pictured above are real, but what you are seeing are synthetically-generated versions of their real selves. And they can be programmed to say anything. https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/17/hour-one-raises-5m-seed-to-generate-ai-driven-synthetic-characters-from-real-humans/ more ›

• Research Reveals Inherent AI Gender Bias

  August 16, 2020

  Unless you’ve been living under a rock—an impossibly cozy, privileged, particle-filtering rock—2020 has probably opened your eyes to how far we still have to go to achieve a truly fair… more ›

• Photoshop Will Help ID Images That Have Been … Photoshopped

  August 15, 2020

  Adobe’s photo-editing flagship Photoshop is so successful that the brand is a synonym for digital fakery. Adobe is adding technology to tag images with metadata, part of an effort to… more ›

• AI Magic Makes Century-Old Films Look New

  August 15, 2020

  Denis Shiryaev uses algorithms to colorize and sharpen old movies, bumping them up to a smooth 60 frames per second. The result is a stunning glimpse at the past. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-magic-makes-century-old-films-look-new/ more ›

• Instagram ‘censorship’ of black model’s photo reignites claims of race bias

  August 9, 2020

  Hundreds of users fought the platform last week to share the censored photos of Nicholas-Williams under the hashtag #IwanttoseeNyome, while Cameron accused Instagram of a disconnect between its positive statements over… more ›

• The 100-Year History of Self-Driving Cars

  August 8, 2020

  The first self-driving vehicles were ships. After centuries of wrestling with wind and waves, ancient sailors devised contraptions that harnessed these forces of nature to fill in for man. They… more ›

• TikTok and the Sorting Hat — Remains of the Day

  August 8, 2020

  How did an app designed by two guys in Shanghai managed to run circles around U.S. video apps from YouTube to Facebook to Instagram to Snapchat, becoming the most fertile… more ›

• Deepfakes are the most worrying AI crime, researchers warn

  August 6, 2020

  Deepfakes are the most concerning use of AI for crime and terrorism, according to a new report from University College London. The research team first identified 20 different ways AI… more ›

• Google Ad Portal Equated “Black Girls” with Porn

  July 26, 2020

  Searching Google’s ad buying portal for “Black girls” returned hundreds of terms leading to “adult content”. Google’s Keywords Planner, which helps advertisers choose which search terms to associate with their… more ›