Tag: algorithmic management

• How TikTok recommends videos #ForYou

  June 28, 2020

  TikTok’s mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. We’re building a global community where you can create and share authentically, discover the world, and connect with others. The For… more ›

• TikTok Finally Explains How the ‘For You’ Algorithm Works

  June 21, 2020

  The first thing you see when you open TikTok is the platform’s For You page: an endless stream of videos uniquely tailored to each user. https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-finally-explains-for-you-algorithm-works/ more ›

• Gender Shades

  June 20, 2020

  How well do IBM, Microsoft, and Face++ AI services guess the gender of a face? Explore Results MIT Media Lab Press Kit https://gendershades.org/ more ›

• An Algorithm That Grants Freedom, or Takes It Away

  February 8, 2020

  PHILADELPHIA — Darnell Gates sat at a long table in a downtown Philadelphia office building. He wore a black T-shirt with “California” in bright yellow letters on the chest. He… more ›

• Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding—Stephen Wolfram Writings

  December 15, 2019

  Logic is a foundation for many things. But what are the foundations of logic itself? In symbolic logic, one introduces symbols like p and q to stand for statements (or… more ›

• Biased Algorithms Are Easier to Fix Than Biased People

  December 9, 2019

  Racial discrimination by algorithms or by people is harmful — but that’s where the similarities end. In one study published 15 years ago, two people applied for a job. Their… more ›

• Machines Gone Wrong

  August 4, 2019

  Often, when we first fall in love, the person of our affection seems to be perfect. But the happy honeymoon is cut short when we realize they are not that… more ›

• When AI needs a human assistant

  June 12, 2019

  For years, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (mTurk) has been a kind of open secret in the tech world, a place where fledgling algorithms can hire human labor on the cheap. https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18661657/amazon-mturk-google-captcha-robot-ai-artificial-intelligence-mechanical-turk-humans more ›

• This Person Does Not Exist

  March 2, 2019

  StyleGAN (Dec 2018) – Karras et al. and Nvidia Original GAN (2014) – Goodfellow et al. https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+newsletter&utm_campaign=411f18f2e8-Benedict%27s+Newsletter_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-411f18f2e8-70754709 more ›

• Amazon has everything it needs to make massively popular algorithm-driven fiction

  November 17, 2018

  Amazon has everything it needs to make massively popular algorithm-driven fiction Amazon is the Voldemort of book events—”our friends in Seattle,” the ominous euphemism goes. The Seattle-based company is famous… more ›