Si créer des bases de données d’internautes avec leur orientation politique, leur nom et leur adresse n’est pas du fichage, alors on ne sait plus ce qu’est le fichage.
Source : Knockin : l’incroyable fichage d’internautes par l’équipe de Nicolas Sarkozy – Politique – Numerama
For English, speech recognition was three times faster than typing, and the error rate was 20.4 percent lower. In Mandarin Chinese, speech was 2.8 times faster, with an error rate 63.4 percent lower than typing.
Source : Speech recognition faster at texting | Stanford News
Unlike other litigation finance companies, Legalist uses data-backed methods to select, vet, and invest in litigation. Our algorithms trawl tens of millions of past court cases to accurately and efficiently assess litigation risk. As a result, Legalist is able to make faster decisions, on more cases.
Source : Legalist | Litigation Financing
Les internautes se voient présenter différentes affaires sur lesquelles ils peuvent investir et s’ils réunissent ensemble les fonds suffisants, la plainte est enclenchée, prise en charge par des cabinets d’avocats, et les bénéfices éventuels sont alors redistribués entre tous (victimes, avocats, financiers).
Source : Parier sur des plaintes : une nouvelle tendance pour les startups – Business – Numerama
La presse chinoise rapporte ainsi qu’un homme habitant dans les environs de Weifang a détruit physiquement quatre « récepteurs réseau de fibre optique », pour tenter de prévenir la diffusion d’une vidéo embarrassante, ou d’empêcher qu’elle puisse être vue par les riverains.
Waze wants to connect riders with drivers who are already headed in the same direction. The company has said it aims to make fares low enough to discourage drivers from operating as taxi drivers. Waze’s current pilot program charges riders at most 54 cents a mile—less than most Uber and Lyft rides—and, for now, Google doesn’t take a fee.
Source : Google Takes on Uber With New Ride-Share Service – WSJ
Comment signaler la présence d’une créature sur les sites concernés si l’utilisation de Pokémon Go y est formellement interdite ?
Source : Quand Pokémon Go inquiète l’armée française – Pop culture – Numerama
The USB Killer’s website claims it will destroy 95% of devices it’s inserted into. With that kind of destructive capability, one has to wonder how many of these sticks will actually be bought by security experts, and how many by pranksters and malicious individuals looking to destroy someone else’s equipment.
Source : Remember the laptop-destroying ‘USB Killer?’ Now you can buy one
If AI learns language sufficiently well, it will also learn cultural associations that are offensive, objectionable, or harmful. At a high level, bias is meaning. “Debiasing” these machine models, while intriguing and technically interesting, necessarily harms meaning.
Source : Language necessarily contains human biases, and so will machines trained on language corpora
According to sources, the Trending team’s editorial staff were alerted at 4pm that they were being fired—as the news of Facebook’s switch to algorithms first broke—and were asked to leave the building by 5pm.
However, removing human writers from Trending doesn’t necessarily eliminate bias. Human bias can be embedded into algorithms, and extremely difficult to strip out.
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