Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Screen grabs, via ThredUp “The prevalence of dark patterns across the web is unknown, but in a study released this week, researchers from Princeton University have started to quantify the phenomenon…researchers developed software that automatically scanned more than 10,000 sites and found that more than 1,200 of them…
Month: July 2019
Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
“Thanks to an outage currently affecting Facebook, users of the social network have been given a similar peek behind the digital curtain, with many images on the site now replaced with the tags they’ve been assigned by the company’s machine vision systems. So if you browse…you’ll be shown text saying things like ‘I’m age may…
Baidu CEO gets water poured on his head at company AI event
“One of China’s top tech billionaires faced an unusual interruption to his speech at a company event on Wednesday, when a man walked on stage and drenched him with water.” https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/03/tech/baidu-ceo-robin-li/index.html
Deep Dive: How Biometrics And AI Are Improving Banks’ Customer Experiences
“Unfortunately, FIs are often caught between balancing more stringent security tools and offering the seamless experiences consumers crave. Modern customers are much more likely to grow frustrated by lengthy processes and switch to other banks, after all. As such, FIs must seek more innovative authentication procedures that take less time and draw less ire than…
Facebook open-sources DLRM, a deep learning recommendation model
“Facebook today announced the open source release of Deep Learning Recommendation Model (DLRM), a state-of-the-art AI model for serving up personalized results in production environments. DLRM can be found on GitHub” https://www.google.com/amp/s/venturebeat.com/2019/07/02/facebook-open-sources-dlrm-a-deep-learning-recommendation-model/amp/