• Are we trapped in our own web bubbles? – BBC News

  “Is the internet entering the era of personalisation, where web firms know so much about us that they are able to serve us up a view of the world which is like looking in the mirror?”

  Tags: ITGS, peopleandmachines, privacy

  • – By yeehaw

• Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles” | TED Talk

  Tags: ITGS, peopleandmachines, privacy

• This is how we lost control of our faces | MIT Technology Review

  “Raji says her investigation into the data has made her gravely concerned about deep-learning-based facial recognition.

  “It’s so much more dangerous,” she says. “The data requirement forces you to collect incredibly sensitive information about, at minimum, tens of thousands of people. It forces you to violate their privacy. That in itself is a basis of harm. And then we’re hoarding all this information that you can’t control to build something that likely will function in ways you can’t even predict. That’s really the nature of where we’re at.””

  Tags: ITGS, security, facial recognition, privacy and anonymity, control, deep learning, machine learning, dataset

  • – By dr tech

• What is PaaS? Platform-as-a-service explained | InfoWorld

  Tags: ITGS, peopleandmachines, security

• 9 scary revelations from 40 years of facial recognition research

  “The gulf between how well facial recognition performs in academic settings vs. real world applications is vast.”

  Tags: ITGS, security, facial recognition, privacy and anonymity, control, deep learning, machine learning, dataset

  • – By dr tech

• The Terrifying Results of a New AI Study | by Ella Alderson | Predict | Feb, 2021 | Medium

  “Over the years critics have pointed out their many shortcomings as well. Perhaps the biggest flaw of all is that the laws are vague. If machines become so human that we find it difficult to tell them and us apart, how will a machine tell the difference? Where does humanity end and artificial intelligence begin? And even if an AI can distinguish itself from a human being, we also cannot know what loopholes and reprogramming a robot is capable of. Surely an AI more clever than us could plan a way to access its core and bypass any of its existing limitations.”

  Tags: ITGS, AI, machine learning, laws, robotics

  • – By dr tech

• ‘If you switch off, people think you’re lazy’: demands grow for a right to disconnect from work | World news | The Guardian

  “But the movement to legally protect leisure time is gaining ground. The European parliament voted overwhelmingly last month in favour of a resolution calling on the European commission to propose a law allowing those who work digitally to disconnect outside their working hours.”

  Tags: ITGS, people and machines, work, internet, telecommuting, policies and standards

  • – By dr tech

• Fears over DNA privacy as 23andMe plans to go public in deal with Richard Branson | Data protection | The Guardian

  “Launched in 2006, 23andMe sells tests to determine consumers’ genetic ancestry and risk of developing certain illnesses, using saliva samples sent in by mail.

  Privacy advocates and researchers have long raised concerns about a for-profit company owning the genetic data of millions of people, fears that have only intensified with news of the partnership.”

  Tags: ITGS, privacy and anonymity, DNA, database, data mining, healthcare

  • – By dr tech

• ‘I get better sleep’: the people who quit social media | Life and style | The Guardian

  “y memory and recall are alarmingly good – borderline photographic. But when I used Instagram, I found it would short-circuit my recall in an alarming way. I’d be describing something mid-sentence and I’d just stop speaking, unable to finish. So I rarely use it.

  But my attention span – and my posture, eyes and sleep – are still being degraded by other technology and my dependence on it. In my pandemic life, technology is a lifeline – 90% of my social and work life happens on one of four screens.”

  Tags: ITGS, social media, attention, people and machines, wellbeing

  • – By dr tech

• Deepfake detectors can be defeated, computer scientists show for the first time | EurekAlert! Science News

  “Researchers showed detectors can be defeated by inserting inputs called adversarial examples into every video frame. The adversarial examples are slightly manipulated inputs which cause artificial intelligence systems such as machine learning models to make a mistake. In addition, the team showed that the attack still works after videos are compressed.”

  Tags: ITGS, deepfake, authenticity, misinformation

  • – By dr tech

• With AI translation service that rivals professionals, Lengoo attracts new $20M round – TechCrunch

  “Most people who use AI-powered translation tools do so for commonplace, relatively unimportant tasks like understanding a single phrase or quote. Those basic services won’t do for an enterprise offering technical documents in 15 languages — but Lengoo’s custom machine translation models might just do the trick. And with a new $20 million B round, they may be able to build a considerable lead.

  The translation business is a big one, in the billions, and isn’t going anywhere. It’s simply too common a task to need to release a document, piece of software or live website in multiple languages — perhaps dozens.”

  Tags: ITGS, translation, people and machines, employment, ai, natural language processing

  • – By dr tech

• One way to fix social media? Look at how the US, UK, and USSR dealt with radio in the early 20th-century | Boing Boing

  “”When a new technology comes to town, we have choices about how to use it,” he said. “It doesn’t necessarily need to broadcast propaganda, [and] it doesn’t have to become a commercial free-for-all. Instead, we can look at a new technology and invent something new.””

  Tags: ITGS, social media, solutions

  • – By dr tech

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