Tag: Social Factors

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News
Date
January 14, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Social Factors

Tagged
fake news, Featured, Information, journalism, retractions, Social Factors, social media, truth}

Research Showing That Fake News Easily Fools Us Collapses

_{A recent paper claiming that low-quality news (“fake news”) spreads as quickly on social media as accurate news has been retracted by its authors.} _{News
January 14, 2019

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Ethics, Social Factors}

A team from the Shanghai Institute of Technology sought to study whether accuracy made any difference to whether a post goes viral on social media. They cited a concern about “the digital misinformation that threatens our democracy.” Read More ›

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News
Date
January 8, 2019

Categorized
Machine Learning

Tagged
Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Natural Intelligence, Social Factors}

Researchers: Deep Learning Vision Is Very Different from Human Vision

_{Mistaking a teapot shape for a golf ball, due to surface features, is one striking example from a recent open-access paper} _{News
January 8, 2019

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Machine Learning}

The networks did “a poor job of identifying such items as a butterfly, an airplane and a banana,” according to the researchers. The explanation they propose is that “Humans see the entire object, while the artificial intelligence networks identify fragments of the object.” Read More ›

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George Montañez
Date
January 7, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Bayes' Theorem, bias, Featured, Longform, Machine Learning, Minorities, Prejudice, Racism, Social Factors, Technocracy}

AI: Think About Ethics Before Trouble Arises

_{A machine learning specialist reflects on Micah 6:8 as a guide to developing ethics for the rapidly growing profession} _{George Montañez
January 7, 2019

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

To love mercy sometimes means to give up efficiency. It could mean losing a few points of model accuracy by refusing to take into account features that invade privacy or are proxies for race, leading to discriminatory model behavior. But that’s OK. The merciful are willing to give up some of their rights and advantages so they can help others. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 3, 2019

Categorized
Social Factors

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, ethics, Featured, Longform, Machine Learning, Racism, Social Factors}

Can an Algorithm Be Racist?

_{No, the machine has no opinion. It processes vast tracts of data. And, as a result, the troubling hidden roots of some data are exposed} _{Denyse O'Leary
January 3, 2019

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Social Factors}

It’s tempting to assume that a villain lurks behind such a scene when the exact opposite is the problem: A system dominated by machines is all calculations, not thoughts, intentions, or choices. If the input is wrong, so is the output. Read More ›

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 31, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
2018 AI Hype, AI Delusion (book), Big Data, Cancer, Chamath Palihapitiya, Gary Smith, Health Care, IBM, Jeopardy, Job Displacement, Medicine, Social Factors, Watson}

1: IBM’s Watson Is NOT Our New Computer Overlord

_{AI help, not hype: It won at Jeopardy (with specially chosen “softball” questions) but is not the hoped-for aid to cancer specialists} _{Robert J. Marks
December 31, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence}

One problem that has dogged Watson has nothing to do with AI or medicine. The journalism around the introduction of projects like Watson is long on the Gee Whiz! An Electronic Brain! It Won at Jeopardy! And it is short on systematic inquiry as to outcomes versus goals. Read More ›

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 28, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Social Factors

Tagged
2018 AI Hype, Artificial Intelligence, ethics, Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind, robotics, Social Factors, Sophia}

4: Making AI Look More Human Makes It More Human-like!

_{AI help, not hype, with Robert J. Marks: Technicians can do a lot these days with automated lip-syncs and smiles but what’s behind them?} _{Robert J. Marks
December 28, 2018

6

Artificial Intelligence, Social Factors}

This summer, some were simply agog over “Sophia, the First Robot Citizen” (“unsettling as it is awe-inspiring”) Read More ›

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Robert J. Marks
Date
December 21, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
2018 AI Hype, Machine Learning, Robots, Self-awareness, Social Factors}

9: Will That Army Robot Squid Ever Be “Self-Aware”?

_{AI help, not hype: What would it take for a robot to be self-aware?} _{Robert J. Marks
December 21, 2018

4

Machine Learning, Social Factors}

The thrill of fear invites the reader to accept a metaphorical claim as a literal fact. Read More ›

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Jonathan Bartlett
Date
December 3, 2018

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Mind Uploading, Nectome, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Social Factors, Technocracy, uploading consciousness}

AI and the Future of Murder

_{If I kill you but upload your mind into an android, did I murder you or just modify you?} _{Jonathan Bartlett
December 3, 2018

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Ethics}

The sci-fi TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013– ) tackled this question in an episode titled “Self Control”. Scientist Holden Radcliffe has an android assistant appropriately named Aida (Artificial Intelligence Digital Assistant). Together, they build a virtual world that people could be plugged into and uploaded into, called The Framework. Read More ›

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Mind Matters
Date
November 21, 2018

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Work

Tagged
Advertising, Jay Richards, Job Displacement, Social Factors}

The Death of the Ad Agency Was Widely Publicized

_{But, like so many industries, advertising turned out to be weathering the digital storm after all} _{Mind Matters
November 21, 2018

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Arts & Culture, Work}

A recent surge in jobs could be temporary. But it’s beginning to look as though the iconic ad culture is adjusting to the digital age. There's a film in that too. Probably a lot of them.

Is Free Will a Dangerous Myth?

_{The denial of free will is a much more dangerous myth} _{Michael Egnor
October 4, 2018

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Philosophy of Mind}

Denial of free will, in a culture of pervasive surveillance, is the straightest road to totalitarianism. Read More ›

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Mind Matters
Date
September 18, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning

Tagged
emotions, Facial Recognition, Social Factors}

You Have Just Six Emotions

_{At least it would be easier for the machines if we did} _{Mind Matters
September 18, 2018

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Machine Learning}

Efforts to enable machines to read our emotions are hitting a roadblock and, oddly enough, Charles Darwin, founder of popular evolution theory, plays a role in getting it wrong. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 25, 2018

Categorized
Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
criminal justice, ethics, Social Factors}

Ethics for an Information Society

_{Because machines can’t learn to solve their own ethical problems} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 25, 2018

2

Machine Learning, Social Factors}

AI (machine learning) was probably faster and cheaper but the whole point of the system was supposed to be justice which, whatever the explanation, proved too difficult to calculate… Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 22, 2018

Categorized
Social Factors

Tagged
internet awareness education, Social Factors, Social Isolation, social media, Technocracy, Unintended Consequences, YouTube}

Hell Is a “Parasocial” Place

_{Where your "friends" may not even exist} _{Denyse O'Leary
August 22, 2018

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Social Factors}

Consumer digital hells can be dreadful indeed but they are mostly of our own making. The companies that profit from them are not forcing us to live in them. That said, students should be taught in school that the internet’s virtual world features a great deal of fakery, including fake friends. Read More ›

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podcast

Date
July 12, 2018

Tagged
Social Factors}

Why Mind Matters Matter

_{July 12, 2018

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Host Robert J. Marks introduces the breadth of issues that will be covered on the Mind Matters podcast, from job displacement to human flourishing in a world increasingly run by our algorithms. In brief, Mind Matters will bring natural and artificial intelligence head to head in the areas of research, application and education.