AI & RoboticsNews

StereoSet measures racism, sexism, and other forms of bias in AI language models

AI researchers from MIT, Intel, and Canadian AI initiative CIFAR have found high levels of stereotypical bias from some of the most popular pretrained models like Google’s BERT and XLNet, OpenAI’s GPT-2, and Facebook’s RoBERTa. The analysis was performed as part of the launch of StereoSet, a data set, challenge, leaderboard, and set of metrics for evaluating racism, sexism, and stereotypes…
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GamingNews

Steam’s new experiment is improving search results in the game store

Valve revealed today that its latest Steam Labs experiment is optimizing its digital gaming store’s search engine. Steam is the world’s largest digital PC store. It’s important that its users can easily discover new games, both for Valve and the publishers that use Steam. Right now, Steam can be a bit front-loaded. The games that are hits are big hits, while many more titles go unnoticed.
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MobileNews

Motorola Edge+ promises 4Gbps speeds — if 5G mmWave networks catch up

Since Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips and other widely available components now power almost all of the world’s 5G smartphones, individual OEMs are trying to find ways to make their devices stand out. So Motorola is launching its Edge+ phone with a familiar trick: promising insane peak speeds, even if current 5G networks aren’t yet able to deliver them. While Edge+ isn’t a slouch on other…
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MobileNews

Some 5G iPhones and a new larger iPhone SE model could be delayed

Some of Apple’s iPhones rumored to launch in the fall and a larger iPhone SE model apparently slated for 2021 could be delayed, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via MacRumors). This fall, Apple is rumored to launch as many as four iPhones that support 5G, and Kuo says the iPhones that support the faster mmWave 5G have a “potential delay risk,” according to MacRumors. In addition…
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