Artificial Intelligence

You can see the faint stubble coming in on his upper lip, the wrinkles on his forehead, the blemishes on his skin. He isn’t a real person, but he’s meant to mimic one—as are the hundreds of thousands of others made by Datagen, a company that sells fake, simulated humans.…

On April 21, 2021, the European Commission unveiled its long-awaited proposal for a regulation laying down harmonized rules on artificial intelligence and amending certain union legislative acts. The proposal is the result of several years of preparatory work by the commission and its advisers, including the publication of a “White Paper…

The regulation of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) has been a hot topic for years. This discussion has evolved from whether to regulate AI, to when regulation should be introduced, to how and what aspects of AI should be regulated. This evolution reflects the complex relationship between humans, society and technology. Of…

Wednesday, May 27, 2020 Posted by Daniel Ramage, Research Scientist and Stefano Mazzocchi, Software Engineer, Google Research Federated learning, introduced in 2017, enables developers to train machine learning (ML) models across many devices without centralized data collection, ensuring that only the user has a copy of their data, and is…

The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday sued the facial recognition start-up Clearview AI, which claims to have helped hundreds of law enforcement agencies use online photos to solve crimes, accusing the company of “unlawful, privacy-destroying surveillance activities.” In a suit filed in Illinois, the A.C.L.U. said that Clearview violated…

At a glance Anyone involved in the decision-making pipeline has a role to play in contributing to an explanation of a decision supported by an AI model’s result. This includes what we have called the AI development team, as well as those responsible for how decision-making is governed in your…

Artificial intelligence isn’t writing much software on its own—yet. But companies are finding the technology invaluable in helping professionals develop and test custom software. ARTIFICIAL intelligence is making the process of designing, developing, and deploying software faster, better, and cheaper. It’s not that programmers are being replaced by robots—rather, AI-powered…

Increasingly widespread adoption of facial recognition technology for law enforcement purposes has sparked a heated global debate over the past year or two. Clearview AI has been one of the central points of contention, becoming something of a poster child for potential abuses and lack of transparency in such programs.…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has demonstrated the ability to enhance our daily lives by augmenting human capacity and capabilities. However, AI systems have also shown that when not designed and managed in a responsible way they can be biased, insecure, and in some cases, often inadvertently, violate human rights. Simply put,…

People frequently mix up two pairs of terms when talking about artificial intelligence: Strong vs. Weak AI, and General vs. Narrow AI. The key to understanding the difference lies in which perspective we want to take: are we aiming for a holy grail that, once found, will mean solving one…