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FTC Demands Answers from Big Tech on User Privacy, Data Usage
It’s been a rough few months for Big Tech with antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook, and the confirmation of Big Tech “Bias Hawk” Nathan Simmington as chairman of the Federal Communica
All I Want for Christmas Is My Keyword Data Back
Google’s making a list and checking it twice.As most of us were still living on leftover turkey, the SEO professionals of the world kept one eye on their rankings and organic traffic.The standard ad
This is the Stanford vaccine algorithm that left out frontline doctors
What these factors do not take into account is exposure to patients with covid-19, say residents.That means the algorithm did not distinguish between those who had caught covid from patients versus th
Wearable device that detects hand gestures could help control computers
UC Berkeley researchers have developed a gesture-detecting wearable that they believe could be used to control prosthetics and electronic devices.The device uses a combination of biosensors and AI s
Facebook’s algorithm has systemic problems, asserts Congress
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Facebook's disinformation problem is not the result of a few bad apples.So argue two members of Congress in a scathing letter aimed at the tech giant.Eshoo of California and Tom Malinowski of New Jers
AI could make healthcare fairer—by helping us believe what patients tell us
To test this possibility, the researchers trained a deep-learning model to predict the patient’s self-reported pain level from their knee x-ray.But if the model had really good accuracy, this would
New Algorithms Could Reduce Racial Disparities in Health Care
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Researchers trying to improve healthcare with artificial intelligence usually subject their algorithms to a form of machine med school.A study published this month took a different approach—training
Google’s John Mueller Confirms Core Updates Apply to Discover
Google’s John Mueller says it’s common for broad core algorithm updates to impact Discover in addition to web search results.Google sees Discover as part of search results, rather than a separate
Despite Stanford’s debacle, AI is valuable to manage vaccines
Done right, artificial intelligence can be a valuable tool to help make the rollout of vaccines for COVID-19 more efficient, transparent, and fair.In a story first reported by ProPublica, Stanford Med
The battle of algorithms: Uncovering offensive AI
As machine-learning applications move into the mainstream, a new era of cyber threat is emerging—one that uses offensive artificial intelligence (AI) to supercharge attack campaigns.Security teams c