KDD&Co, November 2, 2022
Kate Davies Designs, Ottilia West
Want a new jumper? But if we say that it may let you avoid facial recognition software?
A software engineer and the author of the new article loves the natural combination of the analogue and the digital, this is the reason why she decided to write about an unconventional jumper, which seemed to be a real piece of art. She decided to check if it is hard to knit a cloth based on Hyperface that might be interpreted and wrongly interpreted by facial detection systems.
Spoiler: not very fun to knit, as it was not meant to be hand-knitted. Read the details of the knitting experiment following the link.
ArsTechnica, November 7, 2022
Benj Edwards
New is a well forgotten past. And in the era of AI, machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL), Go is becoming an object of research. Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent, which was invented more than 2,500 years ago.
Earlier the best human Go player could defeat the strongest Go-playing AI. But times have changed, and DeepMind’s AlphaGo has dealt with it. And top human professional players are now defeated. AI researchers published a paper describing the details of this noteworthy case.
“The research shows that AI systems that seem to perform at a human level are often doing so in a very alien way, and so can fail in ways that are surprising to humans… This result is entertaining in Go, but similar failures in safety-critical systems could be dangerous.”
Adam Gleave, a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley, one of the paper’s co-authors
Read more by clicking on the title.
Siliconrepublic, November 7, 2022
Vish Gain
Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI face a lawsuit over GitHub Copilot. This is an AI-based tool that is able to help developers and predict text for programming to write code easier and faster. Copilot is powered by the OpenAI Codex algorithm, and trained on public repositories.
A programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick brought forward the lawsuit, supposing that GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft, trains Copilot on public source codes and uses developers’ work without attribution thus violating their rights. Meanwhile, GitHub has millions of users.
“AI needs to be fair and ethical for everyone. If it’s not, then it can never achieve its vaunted aims of elevating humanity. It will just become another way for the privileged few to profit from the work of the many.”
Matthew Butterick
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