AI-Powered ‘Genderify’ Platform Shut Down After Bias-Based Backlash
Genderify is an AI-powered tool designed to identify a person’s gender by analyzing their name, username or email address.
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Yann LeCun Quits Twitter Amid Acrimonious Exchanges on AI Bias
Turing Award Winner and Facebook Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun has announced his exit from Twitter after getting involved in a long and often acrimonious dispute regarding racial biases in AI.
NLP in News Feeds
The amount of news information a person can routinely access these days would have been unimaginable a hundred years ago. But we still have just 24 hours in a day, and only a single pair of eyes to read, and so the question arises: how to get as much valuable news as possible in a limited time?
Deep Learning Paper Sparks Online Feud!
A tweet from Google DeepMind’s Nenad Tomasev, concerning a paper from the prestigious Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms has sparked a well-known natural language processing expert Yoav Goldberg to tweet back: “…I really dislike this work.”
25 Tweets to Know You: A New Model to Predict Personality with Social Media
In order to provide personalized ads, tech giants such as Google and Facebook are trying to abstract their users’ personality from their posts on social media. Hence, it is essential for social networking applications to predict personality from written text.