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Sorry ChatGPT, Some Problems Will Always Be Too Hard for AI
Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose diseases, to name just a few examples of their technological prowess.
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Why We Struggle To Regulate Facebook
The Australian government’s recent warning to Facebook over misinformation is just the latest salvo in the seemingly constant battle to hold the social media giant to account for the content posted on its platform. It came in the same week as the US Senate heard whistleblowing testimony in which former Facebook executive Frances Haugen alleged…
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Algo Swerve: The Art Of Avoiding Dodgy Recommendations On Social Media
If you use social media, you’ve probably done a manoeuvre called the ‘algo swerve’ without even realising it. Let me tell you a story: a few months back, I was scrolling through my For You page on TikTok. I came across a hilarious video of an Australian bloke riding around his farm in his ute…
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Twitter’s Scrambling to Figure Out Why Its Photo Preview Algorithm Seems Racist
The neural network Twitter uses to generate photo previews is a mysterious beast. When it debuted the smart cropping tool back in 2018, Twitter said the algorithm determines the most “salient” part of the picture, i.e. what your eyes are drawn to first, to use as a preview image, but what exactly that entails has…