AI Weekly: Palantir, Twitter, and building public trust into the AI design process
[ad_1] The news cycle this week seemed to grab people by the collar and shake them violently. On Wednesday, Palantir...
AI Weekly: Amazon went wide with Alexa; now it’s going deep
[ad_1] Amazon’s naked ambition to become part of everyone’s daily lives was on full display this week at its annual...
AI Weekly: Cutting-edge language models can produce convincing misinformation if we don’t stop them
[ad_1] It’s been three months since OpenAI launched an API underpinned by cutting-edge language model GPT-3, and it continues to...
AI Weekly: What ML practitioners are doing about climate change
[ad_1] A lot happened this week deserving of attention in the AI space. The Guardian wrote an article with GPT-3...
AI Weekly: A biometric surveillance state is not inevitable, says AI Now Institute
[ad_1] In a new report called “Regulating Biometrics: Global Approaches and Urgent Questions,” the AI Now Institute says that there’s...
AI Weekly: Facebook’s discriminatory ad targeting illustrates the dangers of biased algorithms
[ad_1] This summer has been littered with stories about algorithms gone awry. For one example, a recent study found evidence...
AI Weekly: Announcing our ‘Automation and jobs in the new normal’ special issue
[ad_1] Aside from staying alive and healthy, the biggest concern most people have during the pandemic is the future of...
AI Weekly: Can language models learn morality?
[ad_1] The fervor around state-of-the-art AI language models like OpenAI’s GPT-3 hasn’t died down. If anything, it’s gaining steam. Melanie...
AI Weekly: Big Tech’s antitrust reckoning is a cautionary tale for the AI industry
[ad_1] This week, as the heads of four of the largest and most powerful tech companies in the world sat...
Antivirus: A weekly digest of the latest COVID-19 research
[ad_1] On January 8th, I asked The Verge’s science team to keep an eye on early reports of a new...
AI Weekly: The promise and shortcomings of OpenAI’s GPT-3
[ad_1] I typically think of the dog days of summer as a time when news slows down. It’s typically when...
AI Weekly: Transform 2020 showcased the practical side of AI and ML
[ad_1] Watch all the Transform 2020 sessions on-demand right here. Today marked the conclusion of VentureBeat’s Transform 2020 summit, which...
Apple News adds free Today podcast, 20 weekly audio stories for News+
[ad_1] Last Chance: Register for Transform, VB's AI event of the year, hosted online July 15-17. Though Apple’s free News...
AI Weekly: Welcome to The Machine, VentureBeat’s AI site
[ad_1] Take the latest VB Survey to share how your company is implementing AI today. VentureBeat readers likely noticed this...
VENN unveils 20 hours of weekly video game programming for broadcast TV
[ad_1] VENN, or the Video Game Entertainment and News Network, is announcing it will create 20 hours of weekly video...
AI Weekly: Workplace surveillance tech promises safety, but not worker rights
[ad_1] All of the issues around the pandemic-driven rash of surveillance and tracking that emerged for society at large are...
Amazon’s ‘The Boys’ returns September 4th with weekly episode releases
[ad_1] One of Amazon’s tentpole Prime Video shows is finally close to resuming — though you’ll have to be patient...
AI Weekly: A deep learning pioneer’s teachable moment on AI bias
[ad_1] I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve heard somebody say recently that Timnit Gebru is saving the...
AI Weekly: Restricting surveillance technologies is a strong first step, but it’s not enough
[ad_1] In a letter to U.S. House leaders on Wednesday, over 100 racial justice and civil liberties groups called on...
AI Weekly: AI phrenology is racist nonsense, so of course it doesn’t work
[ad_1] In a paper titled “The ‘Criminality From Face’ Illusion” posted this week on Arxiv.org, a trio of researchers surgically...