What a total cluster! “Police obtained records from Hulu suggesting that Vasquez was watching “The Voice,” a singing talent competition that airs on NBC, just before the crash. Hulu’s records showed she began watching the program at 9:16pm. Streaming of the show ended at 9:59pm, which “coincides with the approximate time of the collision,” according to…
Lawyers, take note – “While the humans had better delivery, the group agreed, the machine offered greater substance in its arguments. That, IBM said, spoke to the heart of its goal: augmenting human beings to make decisions quickly and with more data than ever before.” In front of a jury, the human lawyer has the…
This is why AI makes many of us a little nervous, feed it a biased dataset, and well, we have a psychopath. “In one way, we shouldn’t be surprised – our AI systems have already proven to be fraught with human biases. But this experiment highlights the need for an ethical approach to AI. With…
Turns out, this is a real difficulty – Finally, stationary objects turn out to be a real issue for automated systems. There are so many of them alongside and above the roadway that need to be ignored that it is harder than you’d think to know which ones to pay attention to. After spending the…
Ultimately, this is the problem with wide-scaled facial recognition use. It’s going to “find” a lot of similar looking people. For an extreme example of what can go wrong, take data recently released by an EU Freedom of Information request and then posted by the South Wales police. It shows that at the Champions League…
Oh this is not going to sit well with all of the people who simply don’t trust the basic idea of self-driving cars. “The fatal crash that killed pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona, in March occurred because of a software bug in Uber’s self-driving car technology, The Information’s Amir Efrati reported on Monday. According…