Facebook is working on automatically flagging offensive material in live video streams, building on a growing effort to use artificial intelligence to monitor content, said Joaquin Candela, the company's director of applied machine learning. The social media company has been embroiled in a number of content moderation controversies this year, from facing international outcry after removing an iconic Vietnam War photo due to nudity, to allowing the spread of fake news on its site. Facebook has historically relied mostly on users to report offensive posts, which are then checked by Facebook employees against company "community standards." Decisions on especially thorny content issues that might require policy changes are made by top executives at the company. Candela told reporters that Facebook increasingly was using artificial intelligence to find offensive material.

With all of these complications, why even go down the path of full autonomy? The answer is simple: military superiority and survivability. The full potential of autonomous systems cannot be realized if there are humans in the loop for all key decisions. The First Offset was about massive firepower delivered bluntly and coordinated over a modest window of time. The Second Offset was about modest firepower, delivered with precision and coordinated over a longer window of time.

The social media company has been embroiled in a number of content moderation controversies this year, from facing international outcry after removing an iconic Vietnam War photo due to nudity, to allowing the spread of fake news on its site. Facebook has historically relied mostly on users to report offensive posts, which are then checked by Facebook employees against company "community standards." Decisions on especially thorny content issues that might require policy changes are made by top executives at the company. Candela told reporters that Facebook increasingly was using artificial intelligence to find offensive material. It is "an algorithm that detects nudity, violence, or any of the things that are not according to our policies," he said.

Are bots and other technologies taking over the world and relegating us humans to third-rate status? Before you get your knickers in a knot, remember this is typically the result of automation. Automation does eliminate some jobs but maybe that's not a bad thing. As we contemplate what to do with the greater freedom the digital disruption will provide, let's also consider lessons from earlier automation eras. If you believe Elon Musk and his ilk, then it's just a matter of time before a bot or other automation replaces you.

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Over a month ago, the White House released a report exploring AI's promises and challenges. Today, climate change denier and Senator Ted Cruz, head of the Senate's Space, Science and Competitiveness subcommittee, held a public hearing to follow up on the subject. He and members of the Senate's greater Commerce, Science and Transportation committee petitioned four prominent experts in the field to give a status update on artificial intelligence. Their message was clear: AI has a lot of potential to boost American production, but unless we educate far more experts, US research will be overtaken by China, India and other nations that are increasingly investing in the field. The hearing's only pleasant surprise was its bipartisan support.

Despite steady progress in detection and treatment in recent decades, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States, cutting short the lives of approximately 500,000 people each year. To better understand and combat this disease, medical researchers rely on cancer registry programs--a national network of organizations that systematically collect demographic and clinical information related to the diagnosis, treatment, and history of cancer incidence in the United States. The surveillance effort, coordinated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, enables researchers and clinicians to monitor cancer cases at the national, state, and local levels. Much of this data is drawn from electronic, text-based clinical reports that must be manually curated--a time-intensive process--before it can be used in research. For example, cancer pathology reports, text documents that describe cancerous tissue in detail, must be individually read and annotated by experts before becoming part of a cancer registry.

Do you know that many of the artificially-intelligent things we use in our everyday, quotidian lives "learned" how to "think" to varying degrees by studying the emails of some of the most craven and degraded capitalists in our deeply weird corporate history? Brooklyn's Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain have a new piece of internet art out called The Good Life (Enron Simulator). We first told you about it back in August, right after it won a Rhizome Net Art Microgrant. You input your email into a very Windows 95-looking website and the site sends you each of the 500,000 publicly-available emails from the Enron archives in the order they were sent. You can choose to receive these emails over the course of seven days, 30 days, one year or seven years. Depending on your choice, you'll receive somewhere between 100,000 and 196 emails per day.