What are deepfakes? Deepfake technology is an evolving form of artificial intelligence that’s adept at making you believe certain media is real, when in fact it’s
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Every day, vast amounts of geospatial imagery are being collected, and yet, until recently, one of the biggest potential users of that trove —
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Twitter has abandoned an image-cropping algorithm after determining the automated system was biased. Some users complained it had a preference toward showing pictures of
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The Masakhane natural language processing (NLP) research project, an African machine translation web interface, has won the inaugural 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of
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Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity is literally stolen. Big companies and
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Dr. Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She is a pioneer in the field of applied algorithmic ethics,
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Memorizing passwords is hard. That’s why many of us use the same password across multiple sites. But this practice poses a huge risk since
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Machine learning algorithms can leverage vast amounts of consumer data, allowing automation of business decisions such as pricing, product offerings, and promotions. Airbnb, an
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Tshimologong Precinct in partnership with National Film & Video Foundation, The Gauteng Film Commission, French Institute SA, Agence française de développement and Cape Town
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We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a
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