“Apple has reportedly paid $200 million to acquire Seattle-based artificial intelligence company Xnor.ai, which specialises in edge-based AI. Whilst Siri has fallen behind Amazon’s Alexa and, in particular, Google’s Assistant – Apple might have its sights on an entirely different goal with this acquisition: giving users control of extremely personal data. If concerns around data…
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No, AI is not for social good
“These realities of AI seem at odds with it being a tool for social good. So, when working for “the good,” we must ask a few questions: Which good and for whom? Is it only AI that can do this good? That said, the solution is not to avoid the inherently political discussion of how…