“AI and decision-support systems are embedded in a wide array of social institutions, from influencing who is released from jail to shaping the news we see. For example, Facebook’s automated content editing system recently censored the Pulitzer-prize winning image of a nine-year old girl fleeing napalm bombs during the Vietnam War. The girl is naked; to an image processing algorithm, this might appear as a simple violation of the policy against child nudity. But to human eyes, Nick Ut’s photograph, “The Terror of War,” means much more: it is an iconic portrait of the indiscriminate horror of conflict, and it has an assured place in the history of photography”
Have we given artificial intelligence too much power too soon?
http://qz.com/787302/artificial-intelligence-holds-growing-power-over-our-everyday-lives-but-we-have-no-idea-how-well-it-works/
via Instapaper
Have we given artificial intelligence too much power too soon?
http://qz.com/787302/artificial-intelligence-holds-growing-power-over-our-everyday-lives-but-we-have-no-idea-how-well-it-works/
via Instapaper
