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Government audit of AI with ties to white supremacy finds no AI
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .In April 2020, news broke that Banjo CEO Damien Patton, once the subject of profiles by business journalists, was previously convicted of crimes committed with a white supremacist group. According to OneZero’s , Patton pled guilty to involvement in a 1990 shooting attack on a synagogue in Tennessee.Amid growing public awareness about algorithmic bias, the state of Utah halted a $20.7 million contract with Banjo, and the Utah attorney general’s office opened an...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .In April 2020, news broke that Banjo CEO Damien Patton, once the subject of profiles by business journalists, was previously convicted of crimes committed with a white supremacist group. According to OneZero’s , Patton pled guilty to involvement in a 1990 shooting attack on a synagogue in Tennessee.Amid growing public awareness about algorithmic bias, the state of Utah halted a $20.7 million contract with Banjo, and the Utah attorney general’s office opened an...WW…
EU report warns that AI makes autonomous vehicles ‘highly vulnerable’ to attack
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .The dream of autonomous vehicles is that they can avoid human error and save lives, but a new European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has found that autonomous vehicles are “highly vulnerable to a wide range of attacks” that could be dangerous for passengers, pedestrians, and people in other vehicles. Attacks considered in the report include sensor attacks with beams of light, overwhelming object detection systems, back-end malicious activity, and adversarial...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .The dream of autonomous vehicles is that they can avoid human error and save lives, but a new European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has found that autonomous vehicles are “highly vulnerable to a wide range of attacks” that could be dangerous for passengers, pedestrians, and people in other vehicles. Attacks considered in the report include sensor attacks with beams of light, overwhelming object detection systems, back-end malicious activity, and adversarial...WW…
How many robot helpers are too many?
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .AI that can follow a person seems like a simple enough task. It’s certainly a simple thing to ask a human to do, but what if people or objects get in the way of the robot following behind a person? How do you navigate an environment that’s in a constant state of change?About a year ago, at a robotics conference TechCrunch held at UC Berkeley, AI startup founders explored solutions for common problems encountered when trying to automate construction projects. CEO Tessa...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .AI that can follow a person seems like a simple enough task. It’s certainly a simple thing to ask a human to do, but what if people or objects get in the way of the robot following behind a person? How do you navigate an environment that’s in a constant state of change?About a year ago, at a robotics conference TechCrunch held at UC Berkeley, AI startup founders explored solutions for common problems encountered when trying to automate construction projects. CEO Tessa...WW…
How AI trained to beat Atari games could impact robotics and drug design
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .In 2018, Uber AI Labs introduced Go-Explore, a family of algorithms that , a commonly accepted challenge. Last year, Go-Explore was .Now researchers from OpenAI and Uber AI Labs say Go-Explore has solved all previously unsolved games in the from the Arcade Learning Environment, a collection of more than 50 games, including Pitfall and Pong. Go-Explore also quadruples the state-of-the-art score performance on Montezuma’s Revenge.Training agents to navigate complex...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .In 2018, Uber AI Labs introduced Go-Explore, a family of algorithms that , a commonly accepted challenge. Last year, Go-Explore was .Now researchers from OpenAI and Uber AI Labs say Go-Explore has solved all previously unsolved games in the from the Arcade Learning Environment, a collection of more than 50 games, including Pitfall and Pong. Go-Explore also quadruples the state-of-the-art score performance on Montezuma’s Revenge.Training agents to navigate complex...WW…
AI ethics research conference suspends Google sponsorship
Please wait...Log OutFrom podcasts to Clubhouse, branded audio is more important than ever. Learn how brands are increasing customer loyalty and personalization with these best practices.Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. .The ACM Conference for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency () has decided to suspend its sponsorship relationship with Google, conference sponsorship co-chair and Boise State University assistant professor Michael Ekstrand confirmed today. The organizers of the AI ethics research conference came to this decision a little...…Please wait...Log OutFrom podcasts to Clubhouse, branded audio is more important than ever. Learn how brands are increasing customer loyalty and personalization with these best practices.Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. .The ACM Conference for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency () has decided to suspend its sponsorship relationship with Google, conference sponsorship co-chair and Boise State University assistant professor Michael Ekstrand confirmed today. The organizers of the AI ethics research conference came to this decision a little...WW…
Google fires Ethical AI lead Margaret Mitchell
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .Google fired Margaret “Meg” Mitchell, lead of the Ethical AI team, today. The move comes just hours after Google announced diversity policy changes and Google AI chief Jeff Dean sent an apology in the wake of the firing of in late 2020.I'm fired.— MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai)Mitchell, a staff research scientist and Google employee since 2016, had been under an . In an sent to Google shortly before Mitchell was placed on investigation, Mitchell called Google firing Gebru...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .Google fired Margaret “Meg” Mitchell, lead of the Ethical AI team, today. The move comes just hours after Google announced diversity policy changes and Google AI chief Jeff Dean sent an apology in the wake of the firing of in late 2020.I'm fired.— MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai)Mitchell, a staff research scientist and Google employee since 2016, had been under an . In an sent to Google shortly before Mitchell was placed on investigation, Mitchell called Google firing Gebru...WW…
AI researchers made a sarcasm detection model and it’s sooo impressive
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .Researchers in China say they’ve created sarcasm detection AI that achieved state-of-the-art performance on a dataset drawn from Twitter. The AI uses multimodal learning that combines text and imagery since both are often needed to understand whether a person is being sarcastic.The researchers argue that sarcasm detection can assist with sentiment analysis and crowdsourced understanding of public attitudes about a particular subject. In a challenge initiated earlier...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .Researchers in China say they’ve created sarcasm detection AI that achieved state-of-the-art performance on a dataset drawn from Twitter. The AI uses multimodal learning that combines text and imagery since both are often needed to understand whether a person is being sarcastic.The researchers argue that sarcasm detection can assist with sentiment analysis and crowdsourced understanding of public attitudes about a particular subject. In a challenge initiated earlier...WW…
ExamSoft’s remote bar exam sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .Sometimes the light Kiana Caton is forced to use gives her a headache. On top of common concerns that come with taking a state bar exam — like passing the test — Caton has to deal with challenges presented by facial recognition technology. She’s a Black woman, and facial recognition tech has a well-documented history of misidentifying women with melanin. Analysis by the and . The European Conference on Computer Vision also recently found .Ok support told me to “sit...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .Sometimes the light Kiana Caton is forced to use gives her a headache. On top of common concerns that come with taking a state bar exam — like passing the test — Caton has to deal with challenges presented by facial recognition technology. She’s a Black woman, and facial recognition tech has a well-documented history of misidentifying women with melanin. Analysis by the and . The European Conference on Computer Vision also recently found .Ok support told me to “sit...WW…
Amsterdam and Helsinki launch algorithm registries to bring transparency to public deployments of AI
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .and today launched AI registries to detail how each city government uses algorithms to deliver services, some of the first major cities in the world to do so. An AI Register for each city was introduced in beta today as part of the Next Generation Internet Policy Summit, organized in part by the European Commission and the city of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam registry currently features a handful of algorithms, but it will be extended to include all algorithms following...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .and today launched AI registries to detail how each city government uses algorithms to deliver services, some of the first major cities in the world to do so. An AI Register for each city was introduced in beta today as part of the Next Generation Internet Policy Summit, organized in part by the European Commission and the city of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam registry currently features a handful of algorithms, but it will be extended to include all algorithms following...WW…
Congress probes how AI will impact U.S. economic recovery
×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .AI has the potential to improve human lives and a company’s bottom line, but it can also accelerate inequality and eliminate jobs during the worst U.S. recession since the Great Depression. This dual promise and peril led members of the House Budget Committee to hold a hearing today to discuss the impact of AI on economic recovery, the future of work, and the federal budget.Expert witnesses recommended approaches that ranged from giving people lifelong upskilling...…×Please wait...Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! .AI has the potential to improve human lives and a company’s bottom line, but it can also accelerate inequality and eliminate jobs during the worst U.S. recession since the Great Depression. This dual promise and peril led members of the House Budget Committee to hold a hearing today to discuss the impact of AI on economic recovery, the future of work, and the federal budget.Expert witnesses recommended approaches that ranged from giving people lifelong upskilling...WW…