A look at crowdsourced juries in China, like Meituan's “kangaroo jury” made up of volunteers who adjudicate disputes between buyers and sellers on its platform
Jennifer Conrad / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @scottthurm Tweets: @wired : When ecommerce took off in China, the country lacked structures like widespread credit scores and effecti...
Study: an algorithm developed by EHR provider Epic to predict sepsis infections in patients missed two-thirds of sepsis cases and frequently issued false alarms
Study: an algorithm developed by EHR provider Epic to predict sepsis infections in patients missed two-thirds of sepsis cases and frequently issued false alarms
A study found that a system used to identify cases of sepsis missed most instances and frequently issued false alarms. Source: JAMA Network .
Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says she has been fired; Google says an employee conduct review confirmed multiple policy violations
Margaret Mitchell, the co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says that the company has fired her following an investigation into her use of corporate email.
Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says she has been fired; Google says an employee conduct review confirmed multiple policy violations
Margaret Mitchell, the co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says that the company has fired her following an investigation into her use of corporate email.
Facebook warns it will block Australian users and news organizations from sharing news stories on Facebook and Instagram if the ACCC's proposal passes
The move, a response to pressure to pay publishers when their stories are posted on the social network, could add to internet silos springing up around the world.
A leading antitrust scholar says Google's ad marketplace should be regulated as it both runs the market and competes as its biggest buyer and seller
A leading antitrust scholar says yes. Congress may be listening. — The days of suit-clad men shouting out orders on the bustling floors … Tweets: @wired , @scottthurm , @dinasri...
Google says it plans to launch AI ethics services before end of 2020, offering advice on tasks like spotting racial bias or developing guidance for AI projects
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States like NY, CA, MA, and cities like Baltimore and SF are skeptical about tech-based contact tracing, instead hiring thousands for manual contact tracing
Sources: UK's NHS has already begun developing a second contact tracing app, using Google and Apple's contact tracing APIs
NHS team that built first app is told to build another on Apple-Google system — The NHS has already begun building a second smartphone app to trace the spread of the coronavirus ...
Low paying but accessible jobs in crowd work, such as tagging photos and filling out surveys, are seeing a boom on platforms like Mechanical Turk since COVID-19
People who've lost jobs and are stuck indoors are turning to crowd work—filling out online surveys and transcribing audio for less than the minimum wage. Tweets: @sesmith and @scot...
Interview with Garry Kasparov, the first chess world champion to be defeated by a computer, about chess, AI, and a strategy for staying a step ahead of machines
Twenty-three years after he lost to Deep Blue, Kasparov says people need to work with machines. You have to “nudge the flock of intelligent algorithms.” Tweets: @softengresgrp , @...
A look at a secretive team of quantum researchers at Alphabet's X, who are focused on creating new algorithms and applications to run on quantum computers
Google's parent touted its quantum supremacy achievement last year. It doesn't talk about a group at X working on software. Tweets: @glenngabe , @scottthurm , @tsimonite , @gregor...
A look at a secretive team of quantum researchers at Alphabet's X, who are focused on creating new algorithms and applications to run on quantum computers
Google's parent touted its quantum supremacy achievement last year. It doesn't talk about a group at X working on software. Tweets: @scottthurm , @gregoryjbarber , @nxthompson , a...
Facebook shares proposed bylaws for its oversight board, which some have called a content moderation “supreme court”, that leave Facebook firmly in control
essentially a “Supreme Court” of content decisions. What we kind of already knew, but what the bylaws confirmed, is this group will NOT make decisions quickly. It could take months...
San Francisco's surveillance law, which banned city agencies from using facial recognition in May, has been amended to allow for Face ID on city-issued iPhones
San Francisco quietly amends its municipal surveillance law to allow for Apple's Face ID, though the ban on facial recognition still applies.
San Francisco's municipal surveillance law, which banned city agencies from using facial recognition in May, amended to allow for Face ID on city-issued iPhones
San Francisco quietly amends its municipal surveillance law to allow for Apple's Face ID, though the ban on facial recognition still applies.
China's AI unicorns like Megvii, which thrived on government contracts for facial recognition, are now facing challenges amid US sanctions and cheaper tech
Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @scottthurm , @ealmirall , @psb_dc , @willknight , and @privacyproject Tweets: Scott Thurm / @scottthurm : China has a half-dozen companies focused o...
China's AI unicorns like Megvii, which thrived on government contracts for facial recognition, are now facing challenges amid US sanctions and cheaper tech
Companies such as Megvii thrived on government contracts for facial recognition, but they face challenges from US sanctions to cheaper tech.
How decentralized protocols may help solve some issues plaguing social media today; @bluesky team should consider existing projects like Mastodon
The CEO tweeted that he's hiring a team to develop open source standards for decentralized social networks. His hope: It will spawn better ways to combat hate and harassment.