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Bias and discrimination in AI: whose responsibility is it to tackle them? 

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. We all have our individual biases hardwired into our perceptions and actions. One might think artificial intelligence (AI) would eliminate our biases and create a level playing field. This is not the case. Since humans create the algorithms that enable AI to learn and make inferences, their biases are inherently…
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Video chat apps tout ‘inclusive’ AI features

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. (Reuters) — Video conferencing services have for years boasted that their technology is “intuitive” to use or “integrated” to function with other tools, but now vendors such as Google and…
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Machine learning security needs new perspectives and incentives

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. At this year’s International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), a team of researchers from the University of Maryland presented an attack technique meant to slow down deep learning models that have been optimized for fast and sensitive operations. The attack, aptly named DeepSloth, targets “adaptive deep…
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AI Weekly: China’s massive multimodal model highlights AI research gap

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. This week, researchers at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) announced the release of Wu Dao 2.0, a multimodal AI model capable of generating text indiscernible from human-crafted prose — and more. Containing 1.75 trillion parameters, the parts of the machine learning model learned from historical…
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A simple model of the brain provides new directions for AI research

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Last week, Google Research held an online workshop on the conceptual understanding of deep learning. The workshop, which featured presentations by award-winning computer scientists and neuroscientists, discussed how new findings in deep learning and neuroscience can help create better artificial intelligence…
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