CategorySocial Factors
How a Computer Programmer looks at DNA
And finds it to be "amazing" codeSelf-driving vehicles are just around the corner
On the other side of a vast chasm…Could AI write novels?
George Orwell thought so, as long as no thinking was involvedBrain hacks
Do we understand the brain better if we see it as a computer?Would Google be happier if America were run more like China?
This might be a good time to askFacebook’s old motto was “Move fast and break things”
With the current advertising scandal, it might be breaking itselfHacks damage Facebook, kill Google+
The internet changes everything. For example, it makes the Big Guys more vulnerable, not less vulnerable, than bit playersDid AI teach itself to “not like” women?
No, the program did not teach itself anything. But the situation taught the company something important about what we can safely automate.Back in 2014, it was a “holy grail” machine learning program, developed in Scotland, that would sift through online resumes, using a one-to-five star rating system and cull the top five of 100, saving time and money. Within a year, a problem surfaced: It was “not rating candidates for software developer jobs and other technical posts in a gender-neutral way.”
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