Machine Learning & AI

Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion

The Atlantic: At a remote outpost in the mountainous highlands of Papua New Guinea, a young American psychologist named Paul Ekman arrived with a collection of flash cards and a new theory. It was 1967, and Ekman had heard that the…

Are AI Algorithms Playing Fairly with Age, Gender, and Skin Color?

IEEE Spectrum: Does an algorithm treat people of different ages, genders, and skin colors equally, even under different lighting conditions? Facebook’s AI Red Team today released a data set—called Casual Conversations­—for use in answering that question. The ten terabytes of data…

Are Digital Humans the Next Step in Human-Computer Interaction?

IEEE Spectrum: In the fictional worlds of film and TV, artificial intelligence has been depicted as so advanced that it is indistinguishable from humans. But what if we’re actually getting closer to a world where AI is capable of thinking and…

A Computer Scientist Who Tackles Inequality Through Algorithms

Quanta Magazine: When Rediet Abebe arrived at Harvard University as an undergraduate in 2009, she planned to study mathematics. But her experiences with the Cambridge public schools soon changed her plans. Abebe, 29, is from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital and largest…