Tag: algorithms

• 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 ›

• Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence

  July 12, 2020

  This paper explores the important role of critical science, and in particular of post-colonial and decolonial theories, in understanding and shaping the ongoing advances in artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI)… more ›

• DeepMind researchers propose rebuilding the AI industry on a base of anticolonialism

  July 12, 2020

  Researchers from Google’s DeepMind and the University of Oxford recommend that AI practitioners draw on decolonial theory to reform the industry, put ethical principles into practice, and avoid further algorithmic… more ›

• 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 ›

• Predictions for 2030 with Azeem Azhar

  January 19, 2020

  This browser doesn’t support Spotify Web Player. Switch browsers or download Spotify for your desktop. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3huk6iUjxs0hA1pV12uzBG more ›

• Personal Genomics: Where Are We, Really?

  January 12, 2020

  By Andreessen Horowitz This is a turn of the decade (and January-themed) look backward/ look forward into personal genomics, given recent and past retrospective and prospective pieces in the media… 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 ›