Aden Tate writes: Researchers have created an artificial intelligence that can use sets of anonymous data and the trends within that data to correctly pick out a targeted individual more than 50% of the time. (Admittedly, this took place in early 2022, but it’s something few know about.) Specifically, they’ve done this with phone numbers….
Category: Artificial Intelligence
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
Eileen Guo reports: In the fall of 2020, gig workers in Venezuela posted a series of images to online forums where they gathered to talk shop. The photos were mundane, if sometimes intimate, household scenes captured from low angles—including some you really wouldn’t want shared on the Internet. In one particularly revealing shot, a young…
Using sensitive data to prevent discrimination by artificial intelligence: Does the GDPR need a new exception?
There’s a new paper by Marvinvan Bekkum and Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius: Using sensitive data to prevent discrimination by artificial intelligence: Does the GDPR need a new exception? Abstract Organisations can use artificial intelligence to make decisions about people for a variety of reasons, for instance, to select the best candidates from many job applications. However,…
Arguing the Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Seen at Health IT Analytics last week: In what seems like the blink of an eye, mentions of artificial intelligence have become ubiquitous in the healthcare industry. From deep learning algorithms that can read CT scans faster than humans to natural language processing (NLP) that can comb through unstructured data in electronic health records (EHRs), the applications…