The Company's technology harnesses artificial intelligence to create a systematic method for process improvement and quality control in surgery.

Individual human rights, privacy and the free press are under siege in an increasing number of countries around the world. Liberty itself is being challenged by authoritarian governments whose power is enhanced by the unethical use of social media, facial recognition technology and the ability to intercept private communications. Even in democracies, disinformation and doctored videos are often used on social media to undermine confidence in political leaders. Conspiracy theories abound, amplified by unregulated technology. As we have seen in the United States, democracy is threatened when a high percentage of citizens lose confidence in governance and the electoral system.

As AI systems demonstrate increasingly strong predictive performance, their adoption has grown in numerous domains. However, in high-stakes domains such as criminal justice and healthcare, full automation is often not desirable due to safety, ethical, and legal concerns, yet fully manual approaches can be inaccurate and time consuming. As a result, there is growing interest in the research community to augment human decision making with AI assistance. Besides developing AI technologies for this purpose, the emerging field of human-AI decision making must embrace empirical approaches to form a foundational understanding of how humans interact and work with AI to make decisions. To invite and help structure research efforts towards a science of understanding and improving human-AI decision making, we survey recent literature of empirical human-subject studies on this topic. We summarize the study design choices made in over 100 papers in three important aspects: (1) decision tasks, (2) AI models and AI assistance elements, and (3) evaluation metrics. For each aspect, we summarize current trends, discuss gaps in current practices of the field, and make a list of recommendations for future research. Our survey highlights the need to develop common frameworks to account for the design and research spaces of human-AI decision making, so that researchers can make rigorous choices in study design, and the research community can build on each other's work and produce generalizable scientific knowledge. We also hope this survey will serve as a bridge for HCI and AI communities to work together to mutually shape the empirical science and computational technologies for human-AI decision making.

Dec 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -Two days after it was sued by Rohingya refugees from Myanmar over allegations that it did not take action against hate speech, social media company Meta, formerly known as Facebook, announced a new artificial intelligence system to tackle harmful content. Machine learning tools have increasingly become the go-to solution for tech firms to police their platforms, but questions have been raised about their accuracy and their potential threat to freedom of speech. WHY ARE SOCIAL MEDIA FIRMS UNDER FIRE OVER CONTENT MODERATION? The $150 billion Rohingya class-action lawsuit filed this month came at the end of a tumultuous period for social media giants, which have been criticised for failing to effectively tackle hate speech online and increasing polarization. The complaint argues that calls for violence shared on Facebook contributed to real-world violence against the Rohingya community, which suffered a military crackdown in 2017 that refugees said included mass killings and rape.

Pune, Dec. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Artificial Intelligence Consulting Service Market research report study covers the global and regional market with an in-depth analysis of the overall growth prospects in the market. Artificial Intelligence Consulting Service Market Research Report identifies various key manufacturers of the market. It helps the reader understand the strategies and collaborations that players are focusing on combatting competition in the market. The researchers used advanced primary and secondary research methodologies and tools for preparing this report on the Artificial Intelligence Consulting Service market. In 2021, the global Artificial Intelligence Consulting Service market size will be USD million and it is expected to reach USD million by the end of 2027, with a CAGR of % during 2021-2027.

While plenty of gadgets cross our desks, we at Engadget also end up buying a lot of things for ourselves throughout the year. In 2021, some of us invested in smart home devices and others (re)discovered passions for things like e-books and vinyl, but there are plenty of things we bought and loved that didn't make it onto the site. Here, our staffers look back on the year that was by gushing about their favorite items they bought this year. After a few years of waffling, I finally pulled the trigger in 2021 and bought a Dyson stick vacuum. You could say I fell for the hype, but honestly it's been one of my favorite purchases of the year and arguably the most useful. Until now, we had been relying on a few-years-old Roomba (lovingly named Dale) to clean our two-bedroom apartment -- Dale did a good job, but the Dyson is even better.

Snafu's investor ABBA is looking for sounds from India. ABBA is a Swedish pop group that has anticipated its first album, Voyage, in 40 years. It will be streaming on the air on November 5. But before the release, the legendary comeback band sprinkled stardust on Snafu Records, a music label headed by an Indian. Snafu has introduced a new approach to search for music talent. Agnetha Fältskog, the ABBA singer, has joined a $6 million funding round for AI-powered record label Snafu records.

Content in English has dominated the entertainment industry for decades. But as technology advances globalization, content creators will have to start thinking about how they can service their content in other languages. In doing so, they'll be able to not only become more inclusive of different audiences but help them scale their reach across regions without jeopardizing the entertainment value of their content. It's for that very reason why many have shied away from translating their audio-based content. Whether for TV, movies, or even podcasts, translating audio and video content in the past meant forfeiting the unique voices of the program who typically only speak English.

Some foreign lawmakers and parliaments have labelled the treatment of Uyghurs as genocide, citing evidence of forced sterilisations and deaths inside the camps. China denies these claims and says Uyghur population growth rates are above the national average.

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up SenseTime Group has relaunched its $767m (£580m) Hong Kong share sale.