All stories by Ben
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A closer look at the AI Incident Database of machine learning failures
The failures of artificial intelligent systems have become a recurring theme in technology news. Credit scoring algorithms that discriminate against women. Computer vision systems that misclassify dark-skinned people. Recommendation systems that promote violent content. Trending algorithms ...
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How this company leveraged AI to become the Netflix of Finland
Finnish public broadcaster Yle made impressive inroads in online streaming with its Areena service, which is more popular ...
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What is semi-supervised machine learning?
Machine learning has proven to be very efficient at classifying images and other unstructured data, a task that is very difficult ...
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Forget coding, you can now solve your AI problems with Excel
Machine learning and deep learning have become an important part of many applications we use every day. There are few domains ...
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How PR people should (not) pitch AI projects
These are exciting times for the artificial intelligence community. Interest in the field is growing at an accelerating pace, registration at academic and professional machine learning courses is soaring, attendance in AI conferences is at an all-time high, and AI algorithms have ...
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DeepMind’s mounting losses show why it’s hard to run an AI research lab
Last week, on the heels of DeepMind’s breakthrough in using artificial intelligence to predict protein folding came the ...
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Apple's self-driving car plans could change the entire company
What would an Apple-made self-driving car look like? We don’t know yet, but what we do know is that the company has serious ...
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Adversarial attacks are a ticking time bomb, but no one cares
If you’ve been following news about artificial intelligence, you’ve probably heard of or seen modified images of pandas ...
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Don't dox yourself by tweeting about data breaches
This year, NetGalley, the website that provides advanced e-copies of books to reviewers, sent its season’s greetings ...
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How AI weeds the spam out of our inboxes
Of more than 300 billion emails sent every day, at least half are spam. Email providers have the huge task of filtering ...
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What the hell is an AI factory?
If you follow the news on artificial intelligence, you’ll find two diverging threads. The media and cinema often portray ...
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How triggerless backdoors could dupe AI models without manipulating their input data
In the past few years, researchers have shown growing interest in the security of artificial intelligence systems. There’s ...
