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 is far from being understood. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have compared how deep neural networks recognize faces and compared this with activation pattern data from […]
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How to be a slower and more thoughtful news consumer |
Digital minimalist Cal Newport advocates a moderated information consumption. Are you ready to join the attention resistance? It’s core principle is to embrace the concept of slow. It’s the right response to become more mindful in an age in which the digital attention economy is shoveling more and more clickbait toward us. Crucial to a […]
Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand? | Quanta Magazine
We don’t have machines or programs that understand (as human understand). However, there are tools that surpass humans on a reading test. Read more here: Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand? | Quanta Magazine Photo by Kaboompics .com from Pexels
Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200 | WIRED
Ever wondered how much it woud cost to add spy chips on a server motherboard? It can be as litte as $200. Of course, you need access to the hardware to do this. This comes after the Bloomber Businessweek bombshell article from last year, claiming Supermicro motherboards were bugged with tiny chips from Chinese hackers. […]
Most Deepfakes Are Porn, and They’re Multiplying Fast | WIRED
Two years ago, software was realeased that montaged faces of Hollywood actresses into pornographic video clips. This is now known as deepfakes and the technology has found a wide audience. While some of the manipulated videos are fun and mostly harmless like the picture above, a report by Deeptrace found 96% of deepfakes are pornographic. […]
We Are All Confident Idiots – Pacific Standard
Incompetent people cannot recognize just how incompetent are. In order to realize how incompetent they are, they must have expertise in the area they simply lack. It’s like a blind spot: they don’t know what they don’t know. This is called the Dunning-Kruger effect. Read more here
Artificial Intelligence Confronts a ‘Reproducibility’ Crisis | WIRED
It has become notoriously difficult to replicate experiments in the AI field. Generally speaking, getting neuronal networks to perform well can be like an art and tweaks to the network often go unreported in publications. Also, as networks grow in size and complexity, studying those models is expensive, if not impossible for all but the […]
The Fantasy of Opting Out | The MIT Press Reader
In a world where the cost of opting out is getting constantly higher, the pressure of not to opt out is mounting. Almost every platform tells users that by opting out from cookies, link and click tracking, personal information, etc. they won’t be able to fully benefit from the platform (services). Some platforms even go […]
Facebook’s Latest Purchase Gets Inside Users’ Heads—Literally | WIRED
Facebook purchased CTRL-Labs (pronounced “Control” labs), a company that allows uses to control computer interafaces with brainpower. They use a mix of machine learning and neuroscience to accomplish that. While they are not the only company that tries to do that, CTRL-Labs is considered to have a quite pragmatic approach to brain computer interfaces. Users […]
OpenAI has released the largest version yet of its fake-news-spewing AI – MIT Technology Review
A half-size version of the now infamous language model of OpenAI has been released and the group examined the impact of their decisions so far in a recent paper. OpenAIs decision not to publish the whole model was heavily critized. Vanya Cohen, a recent master’s graduate from Brown University, went on to recreate an open-source […]