Tag: machine learning

• Google Maps 101: How AI helps predict traffic and determine routes

  September 6, 2020

  Every day, over 1 billion kilometers are driven with Google Maps in more than 220 countries and territories around the world. When people navigate with Google Maps, aggregate location data… 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 ›

• 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 ›

• DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence

  June 28, 2020

  One afternoon in August 2010, in a conference hall perched on the edge of San Francisco Bay, a 34-year-old Londoner called Demis Hassabis took to the stage. https://www.1843magazine.com/features/deepmind-and-google-the-battle-to-control-artificial-intelligence more ›

• Good Questions, Real Answers: How Does Facebook Use Machine Learning to Deliver Ads?

  June 24, 2020

  Machine learning is a system that learns as it receives new data, without being explicitly programmed, to carry out complex tasks quickly and efficiently. Facebook uses machine learning to generate… more ›

• Testifying at the Senate about A.I.‑Selected Content on the Internet—Stephen Wolfram Writings

  December 15, 2019

  Three and a half weeks ago I got an email asking me if I’d testify at a hearing of the US Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and… more ›

• Google DeepMind gamifies memory with its latest AI work

  December 3, 2019

  The DeepMind use simulated environments to test how a “reinforcement learning” is able to complete tasks to receive rewards. You know when you’ve done something wrong, like putting a glass… more ›