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Tag: Eye on A.I.
Not all A.I. surveillance is a bad thing
Some places that could use a bit more surveillance. The world’s oceans, for instance. Read More
A.I. is getting more powerful, faster, and cheaper—and that’s starting to freak executives out
A new KPMG report shows a sizable number of leaders across sectors think the pace of A.I. adoption is too swift, and they want the government to step in and regulate Read More
It only looks simple: the complex human decisions behind an “easy” A.I. use case
Chanel chose to use synthetic data and on-device processing to avoid ethical and legal pitfalls Read More
Your data is a weapon that can help change corporate behavior
One expert suggests people collectively withhold or even “poison” their data to push for change Read More
If A.I. isn’t counterintuitive, why should we pay for it?
As industrial companies automate, the A.I. that bested humans at games such as Go is beginning to find a place on the factory floor.
Using A.I. can be risky business
For years, companies have operated under the assumption that in order to improve their artificial intelligence software and gain a competitive advantage, they must gather enormous amounts of user data—the lifeblood of machine learning. But increasingly, collecting massive amounts of user information can be a major risk. Laws like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, and […]
Can A.I. bring back the three-martini lunch?
Imagine the life of an advertising executive and a scene from Mad Men is likely to come to mind: Don Draper snake-charming a pair of Kodak marketing executives with a perfectly crafted pitch about the emotional pull of nostalgia (“It’s delicate, but potent…”) in order to win the account for their new slide projector. “This […]
Why smart-city tech has lost its buzz
Just a few years ago, smart cities, a catch-all phrase for connecting urban infrastructure like parking meters and stoplights online, had major buzz. The idea was to use machine learning to crunch data collected across cities to, for example, minimize traffic delays and reduce pollution. But smart city projects haven’t taken off as quickly as expected, […]
HireVue drops facial monitoring amid A.I. algorithm audit
The journalist Malcolm Gladwell, on his podcast, “Revisionist History,” devoted a recent episode to his theory of “hiring nihilism.” It is Gladwell’s belief that people are so bad at predicting who will perform well at a given role—especially based on traditional screening criteria such as CVs and candidate interviews—that one should simply concede that all […]