A member of Google’s disastrous AI council says the company needs to be treated like a ‘world power’
By: Isobel Asher Hamilton June 12, 2019 A member of Google’s disbanded AI ethics council said on Wednesday that the company’s enormous global influence means it needs to be treated like a world power. Joanna Bryson, an associate professor in computer science at the University of Bath, spoke about Google’s short-lived AI ethics council at […]
Terrifying AI Matches DNA to Facial Recognition Databases
By: Dan Robitzski June 12, 2019 Sketch Artist Cops would love to have a system that uses DNA from a crime scene to generate a picture of a suspect’s face, but that tech is still restricted to science fiction. That technology may never exist, but a team of Belgian and American engineers just developed something […]
Robot Hiveminds & Network Effects
By: Ali Yahya June 12, 2019 While I was at Google X, I worked on an effort to build a robot hivemind––a network of robots with collective intelligence. Our work was part of a broader strategy to gain a data advantage. Here’s what I learned about “data network effects”. About a month ago, my partners […]