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A bias bounty for AI will assist to catch unfair algorithms sooner
What’s occurring: While AI techniques are deployed on a regular basis, it could possibly take months and even years till it turns into clear whether or not, and the way, they’re biased. Today, a bunch of AI and machine-learning specialists are launching a brand new bias bounty competitors, which they hope will velocity the method of uncovering embedded prejudices.
What’s up first? Taking inspiration from bug bounties in cybersecurity, the primary bias bounty competitors goes to deal with biased picture detection. The winner will take dwelling a $6,000 prize dedicated by Microsoft and startup Robust Intelligence, which has been hailed as a robust incentive for the machine studying neighborhood to winkle out bias. Read the total story.
—Melissa Heikkilä
Should we imagine in—and even need—immortality?
Twenty years have handed since author Jonathan Weiner first met Aubrey de Grey, the person with the Methuselah beard. Back then, Aubrey was already a True Believer within the quest for immortality. But he wasn’t well-known, or infamous, but; he wasn’t Aubrey!, as he would quickly grow to be to his followers within the anti-aging crowd. And he wasn’t but a person in shame.
Weiner first met Aubrey in 2002, when Aubrey was nonetheless working as a pc programmer within the Department of Genetics on the University of Cambridge, in England. He quickly grew to become a secular guru, a prophet of immortality—to the extraordinary annoyance of a lot of the scientists within the growing older subject. But Aubrey’s eagerness to persuade believers they might reside for hundreds of years, millennia, and even longer, in the event that they have been fortunate, raises pertinent questions on what it’s to need one thing we might not even imagine in. Read the total story.
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