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ACLU rejects Clearview AI's facial recognition accuracy claims

February 10, 2020
Clearview AI’s facial recognition isn’t just raising privacy issues — there are also concerns over its accuracy claims. The ACLU has rejected Clearview’s assertion that its technology is “100% accurate” based on the civil liberty group’s methodology for testing Amazon’s Rekognition, telling BuzzFeed News that the findings are “absurd on many…
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Arm unveils 2 new AI edge computing chips

February 10, 2020
Semiconductor and software design company Arm is doubling down on edge AI hardware, a market that’s expected to be worth $1.15 billion by 2023. It today announced two new AI-capable processors — the Arm Cortex-M55 and Ethos-U55, a neural processing unit (NPU) —…
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An AI regulation strategy that could really work

February 8, 2020
When even the companies developing AI themselves agree with the need for regulation, it is time to stop discussing abstract principles and get down to the business of how to regulate a rapidly advancing technology landscape. It is clear that our regulatory system needs an update. If we try to regulate 21st century technology and beyond with 20th century tools, we’ll get none of the…
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AI Weekly: Announcing our AI and security special issue

February 7, 2020
Whether we’re aware of it or not, both AI and cybersecurity are nearly omnipresent in our daily lives at this point, and together they’re of increasing importance as our world becomes more connected, more “intelligent,” and more reliant on online or automated…
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AI, 5G, and IoT can help deliver the promise of precision medicine

February 6, 2020
This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. When my son was a toddler, he went to his pediatrician for a routine CAT scan. Easy stuff. Just a little shot to subdue him for a few minutes. He’d be awake and finished in a jiffy. Except my son didn’t wake up. He lay there on the clinic table, unresponsive, his vitals slowly falling. The clinic had…
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Facebook and Venmo demand Clearview AI stops scraping their data

February 6, 2020
Following Google and Twitter, Facebook has become the latest company to take legal action against controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI. According to the company sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview sometime this week, demanding that it stop taking data from Facebook and Instagram. “Scraping people’s information violates our policies, which is why we’ve…
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