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·Mar 11, 2021

AI Ethics for Startups — 7 Practical Steps

Radiologists assessing the pain experienced by osteoarthritis patients typically use a scale called the Kellgren-Lawrence Grade (KLG). The KLG calculates pain levels based on the presence of certain radiographic features, like missing cartilage or damage. …

Startup

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AI Ethics for Startups — 7 Practical Steps
AI Ethics for Startups — 7 Practical Steps
Startup

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The Startup

·Jan 29, 2021

Deepfaking the Dead: Is it Ever Okay?

In February last year, the world baulked as the media reported that a South Korean broadcaster had used virtual reality technology to “reunite” a grieving mother with the 7-year old child she lost in 2016. As part of a documentary entitled I Met You, Jang Ji-sung was confronted by an…

Artificial Intelligence

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Deepfaking the Dead: Is it Ever Okay?
Deepfaking the Dead: Is it Ever Okay?
Artificial Intelligence

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DataDrivenInvestor

·Jan 11, 2021

Playing to the Algorithm: Are We Training the Machines or…?

It is our human inclination to want to look good. Our desire to impress keeps the fashion industry alive, it also motivates many of us to work or study hard, and there are billions of dollars to be made from our desperation to look visibly fit and healthy. So, it…

Artificial Intelligence

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Playing to the Algorithm: Are We Training the Machines or…?
Playing to the Algorithm: Are We Training the Machines or…?
Artificial Intelligence

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The Startup

·Nov 19, 2020

How Do We Solve a Problem Like Election Prediction?

On November 3, two oppositional forces went head to head and the results were…divisive. With commentators and pundits still reeling from the poor performance of US election pollsters, it seems fitting to ask — can AI (ultimately) solve a problem like election prediction? At least this time around, the answer…

Artificial Intelligence

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How Do We Solve a Problem Like Election Prediction?
How Do We Solve a Problem Like Election Prediction?
Artificial Intelligence

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The Startup

·Oct 29, 2020

Intentional Harm: Prepare for an Onslaught of AI-Enabled Crime

“The degree to which this diversity criminal acts may be enhanced by use of AI depends significantly on how embedded they are in a computational environment: robotics is rapidly advancing, but AI is better suited to participate in a bank fraud than a pub brawl. …

Cybersecurity

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Intentional Harm: Preparing for an Onslaught of AI-Enabled Crime
Intentional Harm: Preparing for an Onslaught of AI-Enabled Crime
Cybersecurity

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Aug 14, 2020

Here Are Five Reasons Consumers Won’t Buy Your Smart Home Device

In 2000, a group of researchers at Georgia Tech launched a project they called “The Aware Home.” The collective of computer scientists and engineers built a three-story experimental home with the intent of producing an environment that was “capable of knowing information about itself and the whereabouts and activities of…

Smart Home

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Here Are Five Reasons Consumers Won’t Buy Your Smart Home Device
Here Are Five Reasons Consumers Won’t Buy Your Smart Home Device
Smart Home

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The Startup

·Aug 4, 2020

GPT-3: What Is All the Fuss About?

“GPT-3 is not a mind, but it is also not entirely a machine. It’s something else: a statistically abstracted representation of the contents of millions of minds, as expressed in their writing.” — REGINA RINI, PHILOSOPHER In recent years, the AI circus really has come to town and we’ve been…

Artificial Intelligence

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GPT-3: What Is All the Fuss About?
GPT-3: What Is All the Fuss About?
Artificial Intelligence

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Jun 9, 2020

Why Employee Surveillance Is Not Okay

More businesses are looking to keep tabs on their employees amid the shift to home-based working. This undermines the new atmosphere of trust and flexibility. Writing for Aeon last week, Martin Parker, a professor of organization studies at the University of Bristol in the UK, relayed the origins of the…

Privacy

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Why Employee Surveillance Is Not Okay
Why Employee Surveillance Is Not Okay
Privacy

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The Startup

·Apr 9, 2020

From Pandemic to Panopticon: Are We Habituating Aggressive Surveillance?

In Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, she recalls the response to the launch of Google Glass in 2012. …

Covid-19

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From Pandemic to Panopticon: Are We Habituating Aggressive Surveillance?
From Pandemic to Panopticon: Are We Habituating Aggressive Surveillance?
Covid-19

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The Startup

·Mar 25, 2020

Six Technologies Getting us Through the Pandemic

With COVID-19 lockdown restrictions issued across the globe, millions of us have been forced to hunker down “in place”, or severely limit our movements outside of the home. On learning this, most will have reached reflexively for the nearest device — if we didn’t learn it from that device, to…

Technology

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Six Technologies Getting us Through the Pandemic
Six Technologies Getting us Through the Pandemic
Technology

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Fiona J McEvoy

Fiona J McEvoy

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Tech ethics researcher. Founder of YouTheData.com. Tech issues for non-tech audiences. @YouTheData @FionaJMcEvoy

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