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Coded Bias: The Film Everybody Needs to Watch
Coded Bias, directed by Shalini Kantayya, is a documentary in the way Artificial Intelligence trails human data with the assistance of algorithms incorporated in sophisticated Machine Learning Models. Although many of the algorithms used today were created in the 80s, we have digitalised our lives, and data, in a massive amount never so accessible in the history of humankind. Adding to that, the increase in processing power by computers and wireless exchange of information by the 5G technology means AI is probably the most powerful technology ever designed. It already has the capacity to individualised strategies to nudge behaviours desired by a third party. It is only visible to the targeted person, leaves no traces and almost unregulated with few exceptions like the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
Artificial intelligence company bringing 500 jobs to Kansas City area
A technology company is bringing around 500 jobs to the Kansas City area. Torch.AI announced Friday that as part of a $27 million tax incentive program awarded by the Kansas Department of Commerce, they will create around 500 full-time jobs over five years in the Kansas City area. The company's local operations will be based in Leawood. More than 100 of those jobs will be created this year and many of those new hires' salaries will average over $100,000. Positions include entry-level engineer and data scientist positions as well as some more experienced engineering and sales positions, according to the company.
Meet the real Alexa: voice actor reportedly responsible for Amazon's AI assistant revealed
Amazon's Alexa has a voice familiar to millions: calm, warm, and measured. But like most synthetic speech, its tones have a human origin. There was someone whose voice had to be recorded, analyzed, and algorithmically reproduced to create Alexa as we know it now. Amazon has never revealed who this "original Alexa" is, but journalist Brad Stone says he tracked her down, and she is Nina Rolle, a voiceover artist based in Boulder, Colorado. The claim comes from Stone's upcoming book on the tech giant, Amazon Unbound, an excerpt of which is published here in Wired.