I never tire of looking at videos of Chinese click farms. It’s just so surreal to see hundreds of phones playing the same video for the purposes of fake engagment. pic.twitter.com/bHAGLqRqVb
— Matthew Brennan (@mbrennanchina) 10 décembre 2018
Étiquette : failure (Page 5 of 13)
“I think we have a tendency to think about these tools as sort of naturally creating these efficiencies because the speed of the technology is such that it creates the appearance of faster and easier. But in fact, you really have to know a lot about how these systems work in order to build good tools for them and to interrupt the patterns of inequity that we’re already seeing.”
Source : Algorithms and their unintended consequences for the poor – Harvard Law Today
“Smart Compose is an example of what AI developers call natural language generation (NLG), in which computers learn to write sentences by studying patterns and relationships between words in literature, emails and web pages. A system shown billions of human sentences becomes adept at completing common phrases but is limited by generalities. Men have long dominated fields such as finance and science, for example, so the technology would conclude from the data that an investor or engineer is “he” or “him.” The issue trips up nearly every major tech company. ”
Source : Fearful of bias, Google blocks gender-based pronouns from new AI tool | Reuters
“Rachel, poétiquement surnommée Angel of death, joue elle la carte de l’émotion : « S’il vous plaît, ne fermez pas ce site ! Je m’y suis fait de nombreux amis et je ne peux pas les contacter autrement. » A l’unisson, Masked Lady, à peine distraite par l’appétissant riz à la persane qui s’étale quelques centimètres plus haut, s’alarme : « J’ai tellement de souvenirs liés à ce site… Je n’ai pas envie de tous les perdre. ».
Au milieu d’innombrables messages du même acabit, d’autres se font plus agressifs : « Ne fermez pas ce site, petites m*****. Vous vous apprêtez à débrancher la seule chose qui vous maintient en vie », commente ainsi Samishii, visiblement peu au fait du modèle économique de Google.”
Source : Les utilisateurs de Google+ envisagent l’avenir sur Discord, Slack ou… au bar
“Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, which went into effect in May of this year, requires companies to notify regulators of breaches within 72 hours, under threat of a maximum fine of 2% of world-wide revenue. The information potentially leaked via Google’s API would constitute personal information under GDPR, but because the problem was discovered in March, it wouldn’t have been covered under the European regulation”.
Source : Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public – WSJ
“The Facebook-WhatsApp pairing had been a head-scratcher from the start. Facebook has one of the world’s biggest advertising networks; Koum and Acton hated ads. Facebook’s added value for advertisers is how much it knows about its users; WhatsApp’s founders were pro-privacy zealots who felt their vaunted encryption had been integral to their nearly unprecedented global growth.
This dissonance frustrated Zuckerberg. Facebook, Acton says, had decided to pursue two ways of making money from WhatsApp. First, by showing targeted ads in WhatsApp’s new Status feature, which Acton felt broke a social compact with its users. “Targeted advertising is what makes me unhappy,” he says. His motto at WhatsApp had been “No ads, no games, no gimmicks”—a direct contrast with a parent company that derived 98% of its revenue from advertising. Another motto had been “Take the time to get it right,” a stark contrast to “Move fast and break things.”
“The departures raise questions about Instagram’s future at a time when Facebook faces its most sustained set of crises in its 14-year history. For much of the past two years, critics have railed against Facebook for being careless with user data and for not preventing foreign interference across its network of more than two billion people”.
Source : Instagram’s Co-Founders to Step Down From Company – The New York Times
“We’re also going to change the way we handle the clearing of auth cookies. In the current version of Chrome, we keep the Google auth cookies to allow you to stay signed in after cookies are cleared. We will change this behavior that so all cookies are deleted and you will be signed out”.
Google Memorial : les projets abandonnés par Google depuis vingt ans
Source : Google Memorial : les projets abandonnés par Google depuis vingt ans
“Nous avons mené l’expérience à plusieurs reprises et sur plusieurs semaines : à chaque fois, au moins une dizaine de véhicules ne sont pas physiquement à l’endroit où ils sont indiqués sur la carte virtuelle. Sur plusieurs exemples (voir nos captures d’écran ci-dessous), on voit clairement que les engins n’ont pas été déposés sur la route ou le trottoir, mais bien à l’intérieur de cours ou de bâtiments, chez des particuliers”.