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• This AI does not "read children's emotions"
• There are not seven universal emotions
• Facial muscle data does not correlate reliably with a person's inner state
Covid is being used as a pretext to install this in remote classes, then keep it.
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ChatGPT strikes again. A journalist contacted me to research her profile on @lexfridman. ChatGPT informed her that @_KarenHao and I were his top critics. It cited articles we'd written about him, gave links, and summaries. Only problem: it's all false. Here's what she sent me:
Umm, anyone a little concerned that Bard is saying its training dataset includes... Gmail?
I'm assuming that's flat out wrong, otherwise Google is crossing some serious legal boundaries.
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Stunning: new rigorous evidence shows that wellness programs have NO significant impact. Apart from this: they massively increase the surveillance of workers, which we show here. @iajunwa@Lawgeeknytimes.com/2018/08/06/ups…
We saw this coming, and here it is. Endless trapdoors ahead: data inaccuracies, intentional gaming, constant intimate surveillance 24/7, data breaches that will be infinitely worse, &c...
John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only interactive policies that track fitness and health data through wearable devices
Time for a collective eyeroll from all of us who actually research this issue. @AOC was talking about facial recognition systems. They're proven to have bias issues. But this is how it gets reported.
Thrilled to launch a big project today: ANATOMY OF AN AI SYSTEM. It's a large map & long-form essay about Amazon's Echo, and the full stack of capital, labor, and natural resources used in AI. It's a collab with @TheCreaturesLab, who is a visual genius ✨
Let's talk about the 10%. What if the AI surgeon was trained on data that oversampled white men (as per many controlled trials)? And it consistently produces worse outcomes for Black people and women? Seems like it matters who "you" are in this hypothetical 🤔
Suppose you have cancer and you have to choose between a black box AI surgeon that cannot explain how it works but has a 90% cure rate and a human surgeon with an 80% cure rate. Do you want the AI surgeon to be illegal?
So Facebook is deleting one billion facial recognition scans, but it's keeping DeepFace, the model that is trained on all those faces. Note that "the company has also not ruled out incorporating facial recognition into future products." Very meta. 👀
Breaking News: Facebook plans to delete face scan data from over 1 billion users, shutting down a facial recognition system that became a privacy headache. nyti.ms/3CEwF5r