machine learning
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Facebook And MIT Researchers Want To Use AI To Create Addresses For The Billions Of People Who Don’t Have One
Facebook seems interested in moving into Google’s territory of, well, territory. The social media company teamed up with the MIT Media Lab to propose a new system for developing addresses using machine learning.
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AI Community Feuds Over ‘NIPS,’ The Controversial Name Of Its Top Conference
At one of the most prominent artificial intelligence (AI) conferences in the world last year, keynote speaker Elon Musk reportedly made a joke about “tits” on a stage in front hundreds of researchers and engineers. He seemed to be referring to the name of the mainstay AI conference, NIPS, and its unofficial pre-conference event, the…
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Amazon’s Secret AI Hiring Tool Reportedly ‘Penalised’ Resumes With The Word ‘Women’s’
For years, a team at Amazon reportedly worked on software that vetted the resumes of job applicants in an effort to surface the most likely hires. It gradually became clear that no matter how hard engineers tried to fix it, the recruitment engine found a way to discriminate against women, Reuters reports.
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This Is The Most Aerodynamic Bike, According To AI
Competitors at this year’s World Human Powered Speed Challenge are going to have to contend with this—a bullet-shaped bike designed by an artificially intelligent software program.