Similarly, New York City is considering Int 1894, a law that would introduce mandatory audits of “automated employment decision tools,” defined as “any system whose function is governed by statistical theory, or systems whose parameters are defined by such systems.” Notably, both bills mandate audits but provide only high-level guidelines on what an audit is. […]
In January, Detroit police arrested and charged 42-year-old Robert Williams with stealing $4,000 in watches from a retail store 15 months earlier. Taken away in handcuffs in front of his two children, Williams was sent to an interrogation room where police presented him with their evidence: Facial recognition software matched his driver’s license photo with
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The news: An open letter from a growing coalition of AI researchers is calling out scientific publisher Springer Nature for a conference paper it originally planned to include in its forthcoming book Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence. The paper, titled “A Deep Neural Network Model to Predict Criminality Using Image Processing,” presents a
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The first thing you see when you open TikTok is the platform’s For You page: an endless stream of videos uniquely tailored to each user. No two feeds are exactly the same, but as TikTok has exploded in popularity—the app has now been downloaded over 2 billion times—the For You page has become some of
A preprint study published by researchers at George Washington University presents evidence of social bias in the algorithms ride-sharing startups like Uber, Lyft, and Via use to price fares. In a large-scale fairness analysis of Chicago-area ride-hailing samples — made in conjunction with the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) data — metrics from tens
Acumen Legal Marketing offers Melbourne digital marketing for lawyers that will keep up with all the changes the internet experiences. For example, this marketing firm can assist with Melbourne lawyer video marketing that will capture the attention of more potential clients than you ever saw before. Melbourne, FL – April 8, 2020 – In an
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Data science from social media could do more than just help track the spread of COVID-19, and when … [+] used properly could help alert users of potential dangers. Getty On Wednesday the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic – the first time such a declaration has been made since the H1N1
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November 21, 2019 Algorithms are complex in their nature, and can be hard to understand, but there are things that make Google’s algorithm especially hard to pin down and replicate. Algorithms are designed to favor content with certain characteristics, and rank it well, and suppress other content if it is missing the positive characteristics, or
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Earlier this month, Google unveiled its latest AI algorithm, BERT, which is said to be the biggest Google update since RankBrain and affects 10% of all search queries. BERT stands for bidirectional encoder representations from transformers. Transformers refer to models that process words in relation to all other words in a sentence, such as juxtaposition keywords,
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IT Outsourcing Services Algorithms have a long and illustrious history, dating back to ancient times. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, a 9th-century mathematician thought to be the father of algebra, is also considered the creator of the term “algorithm.” However, the concept had already been used for hundreds of years, although the exact beginnings are unknown.
