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Taiwan's Digital Minister Has an Ambitious Plan to Align Tech With Democracy

TIME - Tech

Audrey Tang, Taiwan's 43-year-old minister of digital affairs, has a powerful effect on people. At a panel discussion at Northeastern University in Boston, 20-year-old student Diane Grant is visibly moved, describing Tang's talk as the best she's been to in her undergraduate career. Later that day, a German tourist recognizes Tang leaving the Boston Museum of Science and requests a photo, saying she's "starstruck." At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a trio of world-leading economists bashfully ask Tang to don a baseball cap emblazoned with the name of their research center and pose for a group photo. Political scientist and former gubernatorial candidate Danielle Allen, confesses to Tang that, although others often tell her that she is a source of inspiration to them, she rarely feels inspired by others.


A Weakly Supervised Approach to Emotion-change Prediction and Improved Mood Inference

Narayana, Soujanya, Radwan, Ibrahim, Parameshwara, Ravikiran, Abbasnejad, Iman, Asthana, Akshay, Subramanian, Ramanathan, Goecke, Roland

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Whilst a majority of affective computing research focuses on inferring emotions, examining mood or understanding the \textit{mood-emotion interplay} has received significantly less attention. Building on prior work, we (a) deduce and incorporate emotion-change ($\Delta$) information for inferring mood, without resorting to annotated labels, and (b) attempt mood prediction for long duration video clips, in alignment with the characterisation of mood. We generate the emotion-change ($\Delta$) labels via metric learning from a pre-trained Siamese Network, and use these in addition to mood labels for mood classification. Experiments evaluating \textit{unimodal} (training only using mood labels) vs \textit{multimodal} (training using mood plus $\Delta$ labels) models show that mood prediction benefits from the incorporation of emotion-change information, emphasising the importance of modelling the mood-emotion interplay for effective mood inference.


Darwin Ecosystem uses AI to help police departments find recruits who will fit in

#artificialintelligence

Recruiting police officers is not an easy task. The hiring process can take four to six months, and precincts across the U.S. are experiencing staffing shortages. The growth rate for police and detectives is significantly slower than the average for other professions, with a rate of 4 percent compared to 7 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Police departments in Minneapolis and elsewhere have taken the extraordinary step of eliminating some entrance tests to broaden the intake of candidates, but Thierry Hubert, CEO of Dallas-based analytics company Darwin Ecosystem, thinks he has a better solution: an artificially intelligent "insights" platform called the Projected Personality Interpreter (PPI). The PPI leverages the power of IBM's Watson to analyze the personality, emotional state, and social connections of police recruits.


A Leap from Artificial to Intelligence

Communications of the ACM

I am astonished that people who know what computers can do, and, especially, how they do it, still think we (humankind) will ever create a rational being, much less that the day is near. A program that can play winning chess or Go is not one. We all knew it would happen sooner or later. We are talking about a large but finite set of paths through a well-defined set. But such things are the work of engineers, not of the computer or its programs.


artificial intelligence COINTELPRO & the Truth About Organized Stalking & 21st Century Torture

#artificialintelligence

A silent communications system in which nonaural carriers, in the very low or very high audio-frequency range or in the adjacent ultrasonic frequency spectrum are amplitude- or frequency-modulated with the desired intelligence and propagated acoustically or vibrationally, for inducement into the brain, typically through the use of loudspeakers, earphones, or piezoelectric transducers. The modulated carriers may be transmitted directly in real time or may be conveniently recorded and stored on mechanical, magnetic, or optical media for delayed or repeated transmission to the listener.


AI’s War on Manipulation: Are We Winning?

Faliszewski, Piotr (AGH University of Science and Technology) | Procaccia, Ariel D. (Harvard University)

AI Magazine

Friedgut, Kalai, and Nisan also assume that there is a single manipulator. In the first part of the survey we discussed worstcase Their main insight is that a completely random hardness as a barrier against manipulation in manipulation may succeed with nonnegligible elections.