A report calls for banning the use of emotion recognition technology. An AI and computer vision researcher explains the potential and why there’s growing concern.
When algorithms make decisions with real-world consequences, they need to be fair.
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A machine learning expert predicts a new balance between human and machine intelligence is on the horizon. For that to be good news, researchers need to figure out how to design algorithms that are fair.
Alongside doctors, AI could be a useful tool for providing better diagnosis.
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An AI trained to look at heart scans was able to successfully predict risk of death. But one expert cautions we still need to be careful about designing – and using – AI for medical diagnosis.
Manipulating our own personal data can allow us to manipulate capitalism.
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Personal data is valued primarily because data can be turned into a private asset. That has significant implications for political and societal choices.
A key element of the battle between truth and propaganda has nothing to do with technology. It has to do with how people are much more likely to accept something if it confirms their beliefs.
Scientists are working with artificial intelligence in hopes of being able to better detect cancer.
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Mathematician Hannah Fry has called for tech and data scientists to make an ethical pledge, as medical doctors do. But the same result might be delivered by simply asking people to mind their bias.
A new test which capitalises on existing knowledge and technology will increase diagnoses, speed up the process and save the NHS millions of pounds.
In an attempt to address the growing problem of fake news online, an algorithm that identifies patterns in language may help distinguish between factual and inaccurate news articles.
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Using machine learning and natural language processing, researchers are developing an algorithm that can distinguish between real and fake news articles.
An algorithm is just following rules designed either directly or indirectly by a human.
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Algorithms are only human (well, designed by humans) but we need to trust they’ll do what they’re supposed to do. And that means we need a better way to test them.
Machines see better than you think.
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Instead of trying to explain the mystifying mathematics behind how algorithms work, this researcher started looking at how they actually ‘see’ the world we live in.
One former member of Australia’s government review tribunal has described robo-debt as a form of ‘extortion’.
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People know about Facebook’s problems, but assume they are largely immune – even while they imagine that everyone else is very susceptible to influence.