books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow

machine learning Announcement of Tumblr's sale to WordPress classified as pornography by Tumblr's notorious "adult content" filter Cory Doctorow

scholarship Training bias in AI "hate speech detector" means that tweets by Black people are far more likely to be censored Cory Doctorow

machine learning Ad copy written with AI outperformed human-written copy Mark Frauenfelder

politics Open archive of 240,000 hours' worth of talk radio, including 2.8 billion words of machine-transcription Cory Doctorow

AI "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow

Science Scite: a tool to find out if a scientific paper has been supported or contradicted since its publication Cory Doctorow

Science A generalized method for re-identifying people in "anonymized" data-sets Cory Doctorow

psychology Eminent psychologists condemn "emotion detection" systems as being grounded in junk science Cory Doctorow

privacy Interactive map of public facial recognition systems in America Cory Doctorow

Business Many of the key Googler Uprising organizers have quit, citing retaliation from senior management Cory Doctorow

Business China's AI industry is tanking Cory Doctorow

AI AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect Cory Doctorow

machine learning Computerphile explains the fascinating AI storyteller, GPT-2 Mark Frauenfelder

youtube Make: a machine-learning toy on open-source hardware Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Using machine learning to pull Krazy Kat comics out of giant public domain newspaper archives Cory Doctorow

cats This machine learning-assisted cat door keeps kitty from bringing furry surprises home Séamus Bellamy

Business Police cameras to be augmented with junk-science "microexpression" AI lie-detectors Cory Doctorow

books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow

AI EU expert panel calls for a ban on AI-based risk-scoring and limits on mass surveillance Cory Doctorow