Awesome, not awesome.
#Awesome
“In most hospitals and clinics around the world, trained physicians make this diagnosis, examining a patient’s eyes and identifying the tiny lesions, hemorrhages and discoloration that anticipate diabetic blindness. But Aravind is trying to automate the process. Working with a team of Google artificial intelligence researchers based in California, the hospital is testing a system that can recognize the condition on its own…Researchers hope this A.I. system will help doctors screen more patients in a country where diabetic retinopathy is increasingly prevalent. Nearly 70 million Indians are diabetic, according to the World Health Organization, and all are at risk of blindness. But the country does not train enough doctors to properly screen them all.” — Cade Metz, Technology correspondent Learn More from The New York Times >
#Not Awesome
“People’s faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say…“People gave their consent to sharing their photos in a different internet ecosystem,” said Meredith Whittaker, co-director of the AI Now Institute, which studies the social implications of artificial intelligence. “Now they are being unwillingly or unknowingly cast in the training of systems that could potentially be used in oppressive ways against their communities.”” — Olivia Solon, Tech investigations editor. Learn More from NBC News >
What we’re reading.
1/ The US government will start scanning faces at the busiest airports int the US, laying the foundation for government controls of the population that could be similar to the ones used in China. Learn More from BuzzFeed News >
2/ Facebook announces that it built an AI tool to detect “revenge porn,” or explicit images that are shared without one party’s consent. Learn More from TechCrunch >
3/ Some of the world’s sharpest minds are working to build AGI and “solve intelligence,” but if they do, will Google control it? Learn More from 1843 Magazine >
4/ The AAA runs a study showing that many of the people who are fearful of self-driving cars become trustful after experiencing assistive-driving features. Learn More from Axios >
5/ TikTok, one of the most popular apps in the world, is re-writing how breakout social networks are built — and much of its success can be attributed to its algorithms. Learn More from The New York Times >
6/ Despite the lack of conversation about it, one of AI technologies’ most impressive feats so far has been their ability to convince humans to spend more time staring at our screens. Learn More from TechCrunch >
7/ Ahead of its IPO, Uber is considering selling a stake in its its self-driving car unit to investors at SoftBank that would value that part of the business somewhere $5-$10 billion. Learn More from The New York Times >
Links from the community.
“A.I. Is Your New Design Material” submitted by Avi Eisenberger (@aeisenberger). Learn More from Big Medium >
“Stop the Bots: Practical Lessons in Machine Learning” submitted by Samiur Rahman (@samiur1204). Learn More from Cloudflare >
“Checklist for debugging neural networks” submitted by Cecelia Shao (@ceceliashao). Learn More from Towards Data Science >
“How I outperformed CTG Experts with 15 years of experience in 15 days” by Harman Deep singh (@harmandeepsinghhds). Learn More from Noteworthy >
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