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The Matchmaking Algorithm That Lets Zoos Swipe Right on Animals
“The animal matchmaking program isn’t just for gorillas, and it takes some things into consideration that probably aren’t on Tinder’s radar. It scores every animal on a variety of traits (and when we say “every” animal, we mean there’s an entry for each flamingo in each American zoo), including social skills, age, experience, family history, and interpersonal relationships. Oh, and genetic diversity. Animals with rare genes are more valuable to breeding programs because their offspring will introduce more genetic diversity into the dating pool.”
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“Hangzhou Zhongheng Electric is just one example of the large-scale application of brain surveillance devices to monitor people’s emotions and other mental activities in the workplace, according to scientists and companies involved in the government-backed projects.
Concealed in regular safety helmets or uniform hats, these lightweight, wireless sensors constantly monitor the wearer’s brainwaves and stream the data to computers that use artificial intelligence algorithms to detect emotional spikes such as depression, anxiety or rage.”
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This school scans classrooms every 30 seconds through facial recognition technology
“The system is called as“Intelligent Classroom Behavior Management System” and it is being used at Hangzhou No. 11 High School. With scanning facial expressions the system has the ability to even analysis six types of behaviors by the students such as standing up, reading, writing, hand raising, listening to the teacher, and leaning on the desk.”
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Congressional Democrats Demand Answers About Amazon’s Facial Recognition Technology
““The disproportionally high arrest rates for members of the black community make the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement problematic,” the letter reads, “because it could serve to reinforce this trend.”
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Chinese schools are testing AI that grades papers almost as well as teachers | VentureBeat
“It is also self-improving. The 10-year-old grading software leverages deep learning algorithms to “compare notes” with human teachers’ scores, suggestions, and comments. An engineer involved in the project compared its capabilities to those of AlphaGo, the record-breaking AI Go player developed by Google subsidiary DeepMind.”
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Police trial AI software to help process mobile phone evidence | UK news | The Guardian
“Cellebrite, the Israeli-founded and now Japanese-owned company behind some of the software, claims a wider rollout would solve problems over failures to disclose crucial digital evidence that have led to the collapse of a series of rape trials and other prosecutions in the past year. However, the move by police has prompted concerns over privacy and the potential for software to introduce bias into processing of criminal evidence.”
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This AI Knows Who You Are by the Way You Walk
“Neural networks can find telltale patterns in a person’s gait that can be used to recognize and identify them with almost perfect accuracy, according to new research published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. The new system, called SfootBD, is nearly 380 times more accurate than previous methods, and it doesn’t require a person to go barefoot in order to work. It’s less invasive than other behavioral biometric verification systems, such as retinal scanners or fingerprinting, but its passive nature could make it a bigger privacy concern, since it could be used covertly.”
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” If your consumption of content is tailored by near limitless observations harvested about people like you, how could your universe not collapse into the partial depiction of reality that people like you also enjoy? How could empathy and respect for difference thrive in this environment? Where’s the incentive to stamp out fake accounts, fake news, paid troll armies, dyspeptic bots?”
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Tech firms can’t keep our data forever: we need a Digital Expiry Date | Opinion | The Guardian
“This Digital Expiry Date offers companies the benefits of getting your data, personalizing results and still making profits, while putting some control in the user’s hands. You will not have to worry about governments or companies in the future mishandling years’ worth of information – which would limit the damage they could do. A Digital Expiry Date would maintain online innovation and profitability, while helping to prevent any future privacy disasters.”
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Most GDPR emails unnecessary and some illegal, say experts | Technology | The Guardian
“The vast majority of emails flooding inboxes across Europe from companies asking for consent to keep recipients on their mailing list are unnecessary and some may be illegal, privacy experts have said, as new rules over data privacy come into force at the end of this week.”
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Here’s How Scientists Are Using Machine Learning to Predict the Unpredictable
“More than just a poetic metaphor, the butterfly effect says that there are some things that even the most advanced science can never predict. Well, that list of things just got a lot shorter. Scientists from the University of Maryland have used machine learning to predict chaos.”
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Efail: can email be saved? / Boing Boing
“The revelation that encrypted email is vulnerable to a variety of devastating attacks (collectively known as “Efail”) has set off a round of soul-searching by internet security researchers and other technical people — can we save email?
One way to think about Efail is that it was caused by a lack of central coordination and control over email-reading programs — the underlying protocols are strong and robust, but they can be implemented in ways that create real problems. In particular, the ability to show HTML inside a message makes email very hard to secure:”
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MIT trains self-driving cars to change lanes like human drivers do
“MIT researcher’s at CSAIL have developed a lane-changing algorithm for self-driving cars. the algorithm allows for aggressive lane changes much like the kind only real drivers would be capable of.
it works by computing ‘buffer zones’ around autonomous vehicles and reassessing them on the fly. MIT uses a mathematically efficient approach which calculates new buffer zones if the default buffer zones lead to performance that’s far worse than a human’s driver.”
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Tastemakers: can a robot really know what we’ll want to eat? | Life and style | The Guardian
“An algorithm has no tastebuds; a neural net never gets the munchies. So can a robot brain really tell us what we’ll want to eat? The question is whether AI systems will be able to excel in the sensual, creative work of tasting and developing new foods – and what we stand to gain or lose by inventing foods that really have our number.”
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Couple’s Amazon Device Recorded Private Conversation, Sent To Friend « CBS Boston
““The person on the other line said, ‘unplug your Alexa devices right now,’” Danielle told KIRO. “‘You’re being hacked.’” The couple had reportedly placed Amazon devices in every room of their house to control the heat, lights, and security system. All of the gadgets were pulled out after their colleague proved they had received the unauthorized recording.”
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The economics of artificial intelligence | McKinsey & Company
” The machine’s doing the prediction, making the distinct role of judgment in decision making clearer. So as the value of human prediction falls, the value of human judgment goes up because AI doesn’t do judgment—it can only make predictions and then hand them off to a human to use his or her judgment to determine what to do with those predictions.”
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Inside Shanghai’s robot bank: China opens world’s first human-free branch | Cities | The Guardian
“Xiao Long, or “Little Dragon”, is not your typical employee – she’s a robot at China’s first fully automated, human-free bank branch.
As guardian of the bank, she talks to customers, takes bank cards and checks accounts (she comes complete with a PIN pad) and can answer basic questions. After a quick initial chat with Xiao Long, customers pass through electronic gates where their faces and ID cards are scanned. On future visits, facial recognition alone is enough to open the gates and call up customer information.”
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Welsh police wrongly identify thousands as potential criminals | UK news | The Guardian
“However, according to data on the force’s website, 92% (2,297) of those were found to be “false positives”.
South Wales police admitted that “no facial recognition system is 100% accurate”, but said the technology had led to more than 450 arrests since its introduction. It also said no one had been arrested after an incorrect match.”
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In Sri Lanka, Facebook’s dominance has cost lives | John Harris | Opinion | The Guardian
“But there is another set of Facebook stories that shines even more glaring light on the company’s mismatch of power and responsibility. A good place to start is Sri Lanka: one of many countries where “fake news” is not the slightly jokey notion regularly played up by Trump, but sometimes a matter of life and death.”
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5 Real World Problems That Are Straight Out Of Black Mirror
“Thanks to a map that shows the jogging habits of the 27 million people who use Fitbits and the like, we can see splotches of activity in otherwise dark areas, like Iraq and Syria. Some of those splotches are known American military sites full of exercising soldiers, and some, by extrapolation, are sites that the military would rather keep unknown. One journalist saw a lot of exercise activity on a Somalian beach that was suspected to be home to a CIA base. Someone else spotted a suspected missile site in Yemen, and a web of bases in Afghanistan were also revealed.”
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In just 7 months, the US public domain will get its first infusion since 1998 / Boing Boing
“In 1998, the US Congress retroactively extended the copyright on US works, placing public domain works back into copyright and forestalling the entry into the public domain of a great mass of works that were soon to become public domain; now, 20 years later with no copyright term extension in sight, the US public domain is about to receive the first of many annual infusions to come, a great mass of works that will be free for all to use. “
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“The Biology of Disinformation,” a paper by Rushkoff, Pescovitz, and Dunagan / Boing Boing
“Already, artificially intelligent software can evolve false political and social constructs highly targeted to sway specific audiences. Users find themselves in highly individualized, algorithmically determined news and information feeds, intentionally designed to: isolate them from conflicting evidence or opinions, create self-reinforcing feedback loops of confirmation, and untether them from fact-based reality. And these are just early days. If memes and disinformation have been weaponized on social media, it is still in the musket stage.”
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An algorithm for detecting face-swaps in videos / Boing Boing
“So they trained a deep-learning neural net on tons of examples of deepfaked videos, and produced a model that’s better than any previous automated technique at spotting hoaxery. (Their paper documenting the work is here.)”
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Russia blocks millions of IP addresses in battle against Telegram app | World news | The Guardian
“The “battle for Telegram” pits one of Russia’s most popular messaging apps – with more than 13 million users – against the internet censor Roskomnadzor, in a public cat-and-mouse game to block traffic that has put the agency’s reputation on the line.
Telegram is widely used by the Russian political establishment, and prominent politicians and officials have openly flouted or criticised the ban. Data from the app showed several Kremlin officials had continued to sign in on Tuesday evening, four days after a court ordered the service to be blocked over alleged terrorism concerns.”
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Flat-pack heaven? Robots master task of assembling Ikea chair | Science | The Guardian
“In the meantime, Pham is keen to see if robots can learn to build the chair using only an image of the assembled product as a guide. Will the technology ever help humans who struggle with the task? “I don’t think it is in Ikea’s business model to have robots assemble their chairs,” he said. “In the next 10 to 20 years, people will still be sweating over flat-pack furniture.””
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Hackers warn Iran: ‘Don’t mess with our elections’ | World news | The Guardian
“Hackers have attacked networks in a number of countries including data centres in Iran, where they left the image of a US flag on screens along with a warning: “Don’t mess with our elections”, the Iranian IT ministry said on Saturday.
“The attack apparently affected 200,000 router switches across the world in a widespread attack, including 3,500 switches in our country,” the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology said in a statement carried by Iran’s official news agency IRNA”
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Packet Tracer Overview for Teaching Computer Science KS2-4 – YouTube
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Is your friend getting a cheaper Uber fare than you are? | Arwa Mahdawi | Opinion | The Guardian
“Personalized pricing, which is also known as price discrimination or price optimization, depending on whether you’re an economist or an online marketer, is a growing trend. According to a recent Deloitte and Salesforce report, 40% of brands that currently use AI to personalize the customer experience have used it to tailor pricing and promotions in real time. “
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Google loses landmark ‘right to be forgotten’ case | Technology | The Guardian
““Before anyone meets a new person these days they Google them,” Tomlinson said. He added that many people engaged in misdeeds when they were young and if the misdeeds were constantly brought to the attention of others then they would permanently have a negative effect.”
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Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts, stoking privacy fears
“SINGAPORE — In the not too distant future, surveillance cameras sitting atop over 100,000 lampposts in Singapore could help authorities pick out and recognise faces in crowds across the island-state.
The plan to install the cameras, which will be linked to facial recognition software, is raising privacy fears among security experts and rights groups. The government said the system would allow it to “perform crowd analytics” and support anti-terror operations.”
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Chinese Police Say Face Recognition Identified Suspect Out Of Crowd Of 50,000 | Gizmodo Australia
“Chinese police say they used facial recognition to identify, then arrest a man attending a crowded concert in Nanchang, China’s third largest city. South China Morning Post reports that security cameras equipped with the software pinpointed the man out of the estimated 50,000 other people also in attendance at the concert. “
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Facebook being used to ‘incite real harm’ in Myanmar, says Zuckerberg: Report – Channel NewsAsia
“”The Myanmar issues have, I think, gotten a lot of focus inside the company,” he told Vox as he went on to detail an incident when he was informed of “sensational messages” being spread through Facebook Messenger to incite violence on both sides of the conflict.”
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How babies learn – and why robots can’t compete | News | The Guardian
“He had discovered that human learning was communal and interactive. For a robot, the acquisition of language was abstract and formulaic. For us, it was embodied, emotive, subjective, quivering with life. The future of intelligence wouldn’t be found in our machines, but in the development of our own minds.”
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““When you have a fully digital system you have no weapon to defend yourself if someone turns it off,” he says.
“If Putin invades Gotland [Sweden’s largest island] it will be enough for him to turn off the payments system. No other country would even think about taking these sorts of risks, they would demand some sort of analogue system.””
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A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe | Richard Stallman | Opinion | The Guardian
“The robust way to do that, the way that can’t be set aside at the whim of a government, is to require systems to be built so as not to collect data about a person. The basic principle is that a system must be designed not to collect certain data, if its basic function can be carried out without that data.”
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“Cambridge Analytica sought to influence the Nigerian presidential election in 2015 by using graphically violent imagery to portray a candidate as a supporter of sharia law who would brutally suppress dissenters and negotiate with militant Islamists, a video passed to British MPs reveals.”
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Is China’s social credit system becoming a Black Mirror episode? / Boing Boing
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