Companies may be overestimating the ability of workers to catch A.I. bias problems. Read More
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At Google Cloud, A. I. ethics requires ‘Iced Tea’ and ‘Lemonaid’
“Foundational” algorithms are the key to many A. I. use cases, but watch out for ethical pitfalls, warns top Google Cloud executive. Read More
A new formula may help black patients’ access to kidney care
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For decades, doctors and hospitals saw kidney patients differently based on their race. A standard equation for estimating kidney function applied a correction for Black patients that made their health appear rosier, inhibiting access to transplants and other treatments. On Thursday, a task force assembled by two leading kidney care societies […]
Now that machines can learn, can they unlearn?
Enlarge (credit: Andriy Onufriyenko | Getty Images) Companies of all kinds use machine learning to analyze people’s desires, dislikes, or faces. Some researchers are now asking a different question: How can we make machines forget? A nascent area of computer science dubbed machine unlearning seeks ways to induce selective amnesia in artificial intelligence software. The […]
Why Microsoft and Twitter are turning to bug bounties to fix their A. I.
Microsoft, Nvidia, and Twitter are hosting bug bounty programs specifically tailored to A. I. Read More
No-code A.I. is coming. Is your company ready?
A lot of A.I. software companies are increasingly putting the power to build specific A.I. algorithms in their customers’ hands. It’s a powerful development—but also possibly dangerous. Read More
Humans are plagued by hidden biases. A.I. can help.
Startup Text IQ has built a system to reveal unconscious bias in workplace performance reviews Read More
Google reportedly promises change to research team after high-profile firings
Enlarge / Google, by night. (credit: 400tmax | Getty Images) Google is reportedly promising it will change its research review procedures this year in its AI division, in an apparent bid to restore employee confidence in the wake of two high-profile firings of prominent women from the division. Reuters obtained a recording from an internal […]
Google settles federal gender and race discrimination charges for $3.8M
Enlarge (credit: Sean Gallup | Getty Images) Google has agreed to a $3.8 million settlement with federal regulators to settle allegations that it both underpaid women software engineers and unfairly passed over women and Asian candidates for software engineering roles. The settlement breaks down into three pools, the US Department of Labor announced Monday. As […]
A.I. Should Have real–along with other takeaways from this Season’s NeurIPS
To receive it delivered {} your in-box, then sign here. Hello and welcome to this Previous “Eye on A.I.” of 2020! I spent immersed at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) seminar, the yearly gathering of high academic A.I. research workers. It is almost always a fantastic place for taking the heartbeat of this area. […]