cat and mouse games Researchers think that adversarial examples could help us maintain privacy from machine learning systems Cory Doctorow
some models are useful Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow
African American English Training bias in AI "hate speech detector" means that tweets by Black people are far more likely to be censored Cory Doctorow
talk radio Open archive of 240,000 hours' worth of talk radio, including 2.8 billion words of machine-transcription Cory Doctorow
CRIME POODLE DROWN Fascinating, accessible guide to cryptographic attacks, from brute-force to POODLE and beyond Cory Doctorow
clarke's third law "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow
faith-based science A generalized method for re-identifying people in "anonymized" data-sets Cory Doctorow
meredith whittaker Many of the key Googler Uprising organizers have quit, citing retaliation from senior management Cory Doctorow
also banning cryptography The new £50 notes will feature Alan Turing (whilst HMG proposes bans on Turing complete computers AND working crypto) Cory Doctorow
cheap tricks AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect Cory Doctorow
tensorflow Using machine learning to pull Krazy Kat comics out of giant public domain newspaper archives Cory Doctorow
some models are useful Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow
eniac The ENIAC Programmers: how women invented modern programming and were then written out of the history books Cory Doctorow
squick Finally, a useful application for augmented reality: rendering virtual kitchen roaches Cory Doctorow
sampling errors Machine learning classifiers are up to 20% less accurate when labeling photos from homes in poor countries Cory Doctorow
highster A deep dive into stalkerware's creepy marketing, illegal privacy invasions, and terrible security Cory Doctorow
beyond sense-and-avoid DARPA's Spectrum Collaboration Challenge: finally some progress towards a "Cognitive Radio" future Cory Doctorow
