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Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech

Wired UK: In March 2018, Peter-Lucas Jones and the ten other staff at Te Hiku Media, a small non-profit radio station nestled just below New Zealand’s most northern tip, were in disbelief. In ten days, thanks to a competition it had…

AI and particle physics: a powerful partnership

Physics World: As a postdoc at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), I was interested to find out we have a long history of implementing neural networks, a subset of AI, on particle physics data. In May 1990, when I was…

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…

What a Gambling App Knows About You

New York Times: When Gregg finally stopped gambling in late 2018, he was in a dire financial position. He had lost nearly $15,000 during a nine-month betting binge, on top of two outstanding loans totaling more than $70,000 and a mortgage of more than $150,000 on his small home in Britain….