The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It – The New York Times
How do you feel about the end of privacy on public places? In public transport? When you can identfy every stranger that passes by? When…
The case for … ‘dumb’ cities instead of ‘smart’ ones
We've participated in SCEWC in Barcelona last year. The amount of technology that is supposed to makes a city smart is staggering. For monitoring ever…
Personal Data Is Valuable. Give Pricing Power to the People | WIRED
Wired article by Olaf Groth, Tobias Straube and Dan Zehr discussing a market that establishes a price for privacy-assured data and returns a fair share…
Opinion | How to Track President Trump – The New York Times
Shocking article how easy it is to track anybody, including Donald Trump. A dataset with more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of…
Three People-Centered Design Principles for Deep Learning
Algorithms gain more and more control over our daily lives. We need to build in principles into AI systems that work in the favor of…
A Sobering Message About the Future at AI’s Biggest Party | WIRED
The key message from this years leading AI conference NeurIPS is a sobering one. In a nutshell: it looks like AI has hit a wall…
On the potential Impact of banning Political Ads on Social Media
Worth reading: this Wired article that discusses the potential impact of banning political ads on social media. Political Ads serve as entry point to phony…
Converging Solutions: Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition
Humans are almost hardwired to recognize faces. It's important for us to tell people apart and we barely think about it. But the recognition process…
Wie bringt man einen Chatbot auf das Smartphone?
Ist doch ganz einfach, möchte man meinen. In der Tat gibt es mehrere Möglichkeiten, Chatbots auf Messenger-Plattformen (WhatsApp, FB Messenger, etc.) zu verwenden oder auf…