With artificial intelligence technologies finding their way into manufacturing, even leading economists are worried that technology is replacing jobs Source: Why Manufacturing Stands to Gain the Most Through Artificial Intelligence – PCQuest

it seems like CNNs wouldn’t be a good fit for NLP tasks. Recurrent Neural Networks make more intuitive sense. They resemble how we process language (or at least how we think we process language): Reading sequentially from left to right. Fortunately, this doesn’t mean that CNNs don’t work.  All models are wrong, but some are useful. It turns out that […]

Studies of risk perception examine the judgements people make when they are asked to characterize and evaluate hazardous activities and technologies. This research aims to aid risk analysis and policy-making by providing a basis for understanding and anticipating public responses to hazards and improving the communication of risk information among lay people, technical experts, and […]

Behavioral economics combines elements of psychology and economics, with the primary assumption that cognitive biases and/or limitations often prevent people from making optimal decisions, despite their intentions and best efforts.1 Over the last 60 years, researchers and theorists have introduced upward of 80 concepts exploring these predictable biases to which individuals often fall victim, as […]

Google’s Deep Mind AI was tested playing several different games to see what kind of behavior would emerge.In one particular game, the AI was tasked with attempting to collect more ‘apples’ within a 2D environment than another ‘player’. The AI also had the ability to hit a player with a beam which would remove them […]

As technology advances, we are quickly becoming slaves to it, unaware of our intentional manipulation. It could be a simple post on Facebook only visible to those targeted or an automated response to your political tweet intentionally trying to anger you for the express purpose of affecting your choice to vote for a particular candidate. […]

In theory, Gamalon’s approach could make it a lot easier for someone to build and refine a machine-learning model, too. Perfecting a deep-learning algorithm requires a great deal of mathematical and machine-learning expertise. “There’s a black art to setting these systems up,” Vigoda says. With Gamalon’s approach, a programmer could train a model by feeding […]

The statistics may feel familiar: a 2014 study by Pew Research in Washington DC showed that 40% of internet users have been harassed and 66% of those said the most recent instance was on social media. Since then, despite many promises made by internet companies, efforts to curb online harassment using human moderation have fallen flat. […]

Of course, lying with statistics has been a thing for a long time, but charts tend to spread far and wide these days. There’s a lot of them. Some don’t tell the truth. Maybe you glance at it and that’s it, but a simple message sticks and builds. Before you know it, Leonardo DiCaprio spins […]

Project Jupyter aims to create an ecosystem of open source tools for interactive computation and data analysis, where the direct participation of humans in the computational loop—executing code to understand a problem and iteratively refine their approach—is the primary consideration. Anchoring Jupyter around humans is key to the project; it helps us both narrow our […]