Tag: algorithms

• Antikythera

  July 7, 2024

  The history of AI and the history of the Philosophy of AI are deeply intertwined, from Leibniz to Turing to Hubert Dreyfus to today. Thought experiments drive technologies, which in… more ›

• TECHNOLOGY SHOULD SERVE ALL OF US. NOT JUST THE PRIVILEGED FEW.

  July 7, 2024

  In today’s world, AI systems are used to decide who gets hired, the quality of medical treatment we receive, and whether we become a suspect in a police investigation. While… more ›

• Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past

  August 7, 2023

  ‘Phrenology’ has an old-fashioned ring to it. It sounds like it belongs in a history book, filed somewhere between bloodletting and velocipedes. We’d like to think that judging people’s worth… more ›

• Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language

  November 20, 2022

  A new vocabulary — a little fun, a little dystopian — has emerged on the social video platform, as creators try to get around algorithms and strict content moderation. They… more ›

• The End of Social Media

  August 5, 2022

  Last week, Meta announced that the Facebook newsfeed would be shifting towards an algorithmic, recommendation-based model of content distribution. Platforms like the massively popular (and still growing) TikTok and YouTube put far… more ›

• China Targets Big Tech’s Algorithms as Crackdown Persists

  April 12, 2022

  China kicked off a formal campaign to rein in the potential abuse of algorithms by internet giants from ByteDance Ltd. to Tencent Holdings Ltd., taking aim at the way social… more ›

• The end of the metaverse hopefully

  February 5, 2022

  Meta, the company that owns Facebook, had a pretty bad day yesterday. The company, on an earnings call, reported that it had lost users for the first time in its… more ›

• Mobile Computational Photography: A Tour

  September 20, 2021

  The first mobile camera phone was sold only 20 years ago, when taking pictures with one’s phone was an oddity, and sharing pictures online was unheard of. Today, the smartphone… more ›

• Investigation: How TikTok’s Algorithm Figures Out Your Deepest Desires

  September 19, 2021

  A Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of time you linger over a piece… more ›

• Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing

  August 15, 2021

  Part of it is the sheer hassle of repeatedly identifying objects — traffic lights, staircases, palm trees and buses — just so I can finish a web search. I also… more ›