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6 Innovators Who are Shaping the World

TIME - Tech

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. The editors of spoke with six innovators who are making the planet a more sustainable and accessible place for future generations. From Saieshan Govinder's work tackling the youth unemployment crisis in South Africa to Srilekha Chakraborty's initiatives that help girls in rural India learn and talk about their health, these game-changers are leading the way to a better world.


Report: Dating apps like Grindr, Tinder and OkCupid collect, share your personal data

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

Dating apps like Tinder, OkCupid and Grindr are sharing users' "highly personal" data like sexual preferences and location with advertising partners, according to a European data protection agency. The Norwegian Consumer Council released findings on Tuesday suggesting the information you enter on dating apps is being used to create comprehensive profiles, which are then sold and used for targeted advertising and other practices. "These practices are out of control and are rife with privacy violations and breaches of European law," including the General Data Protection Regulation, said Finn Myrstad, director of digital policy in the Norwegian Consumer Council in a statement. The consumer advocacy group filed three GDPR complaints against the queer dating app Grindr and five advertising divisions of tech companies that reportedly receive the personal data including Twitter's MoPub and AT&T's AppNexus. "Every time you open an app like Grindr, advertisement networks get your GPS location, device identifiers and even the fact that you use a gay dating app," said Max Schrems, founder of the European privacy non-profit noyb.


How Technology is Giving Customers Their Power Back

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When it comes to emerging technology, most consumers are often quite fearful of this kind of change. Many are concerned that automation will eliminate thousands of jobs in the near future. Others fear that their private data can be bought and sold, putting them in danger or removing any sense of privacy from the internet. A great deal of consumers are also incredibly skeptical of Machine Learning, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence specifically. Only 35% of customers state that they are comfortable interacting with businesses that utilize AI โ€“ even though 84% of us use AI-based devices and services frequently, such as Siri and Google Home.


'Tinder Granny' explains why she's quitting dating app for love in doc: 'I'm really out there and desirable'

FOX News

Hattie, nicknamed'Tinder Granny' by the press, explains why she's quitting the popular dating app on WETV's'Extreme Love.' At age 83, Hattie is no longer on the prowl for one-night stands. The grandmother of three, famously nicknamed "Tinder Granny" by the press for her voracious appetite of younger men and love of swiping right to prospective suitors, is the subject of WETV's reality show "Extreme Love," which explores how traditional ideas of love are reimagined across the country. She previously appeared in the 2012 documentary "Extreme Cougar Wives." "I never considered what I do to be extreme," Hattie told Fox News.


Google Nest Mini review: better bass and recycled plastic

The Guardian

The second generation of Google's smallest smart speaker gets a new name, more eco-friendly, a little smarter and more bass. The ยฃ49 Nest Mini replaces the Google Home Mini as part of a revamped and renamed line of Google smart home products under the Nest brand, pushing its predecessor to a clearance price of only ยฃ19. From the outside you would be hard pushed to see what has changed. The Nest Mini sticks with the same pincushion design with a fabric top and nonslip rubber pad on the bottom. The top contains three far-field microphones and is touch sensitive.


User-in-the-loop Adaptive Intent Detection for Instructable Digital Assistant

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

People are becoming increasingly comfortable using Digital Assistants (DAs) to interact with services or connected objects. However, for non-programming users, the available possibilities for customizing their DA are limited and do not include the possibility of teaching the assistant new tasks. To make the most of the potential of DAs, users should be able to customize assistants by instructing them through Natural Language (NL). To provide such functionalities, NL interpretation in traditional assistants should be improved: (1) The intent identification system should be able to recognize new forms of known intents, and to acquire new intents as they are expressed by the user. (2) In order to be adaptive to novel intents, the Natural Language Understanding module should be sample efficient, and should not rely on a pretrained model. Rather, the system should continuously collect the training data as it learns new intents from the user. In this work, we propose AidMe (Adaptive Intent Detection in Multi-Domain Environments), a user-in-the-loop adaptive intent detection framework that allows the assistant to adapt to its user by learning his intents as their interaction progresses. AidMe builds its repertoire of intents and collects data to train a model of semantic similarity evaluation that can discriminate between the learned intents and autonomously discover new forms of known intents. AidMe addresses two major issues - intent learning and user adaptation - for instructable digital assistants. We demonstrate the capabilities of AidMe as a standalone system by comparing it with a one-shot learning system and a pretrained NLU module through simulations of interactions with a user. We also show how AidMe can smoothly integrate to an existing instructable digital assistant.


Machine Learning vs. AI, Important Differences Between Them

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Recently, a report was released regarding the misuse from companies claiming to use artificial intelligence [29] [30] on their products and services. According to the Verge [29], 40% of European startups that claimed to use AI don't actually use the technology. Last year, TechTalks, also stumbled upon such misuse by companies claiming to use machine learning and advanced artificial intelligence to gather and examine thousands of users' data to enhance user experience in their products and services [2] [33]. Unfortunately, there's still a lot of confusion within the public and the media regarding what truly is artificial intelligence [44], and what truly is machine learning [18]. Often the terms are being used as synonyms, in other cases, these are being used as discrete, parallel advancements, while others are taking advantage of the trend to create hype and excitement, as to increase sales and revenue [2] [31] [32] [45].


Does ai give birth to new technological era in mobile application

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The emergence of artificial intelligence has paved a new era in mobile application development. For quite some time, mobile app developers have made an extensive amount of progress in their innovation through AI. Take for the example of Apple's SIRI. It has been used for quite a long period of time, and still, it has the huge potential of transforming the future technological revolution. Even machine learning is developing at a faster rate and users need a flexible algorithm to enhance the experience. Now the advancement and availability of AI and machine learning are building a huge advancement, especially in the way businesses, users and developers appreciate the interactions with mobile apps.


Study: Tinder, Grindr And Other Apps Share Sensitive Personal Data With Advertisers

NPR Technology

Dating apps, including Tinder, give sensitive information about users to marketing companies, according to a Norwegian study released Tuesday. Dating apps, including Tinder, give sensitive information about users to marketing companies, according to a Norwegian study released Tuesday. A group of civil rights and consumer groups is urging federal and state regulators to examine a number of mobile apps, including popular dating apps Grindr, Tinder and OKCupid for allegedly sharing personal information with advertising companies. The push by the privacy rights coalition follows a report published on Tuesday by the Norwegian Consumer Council found that 10 apps collect sensitive information including a user's exact location, sexual orientation, religious and political beliefs, drug use and other information and then transmits the personal data to at least 135 different third-party companies. The data harvesting, according to the Norwegian government agency, appears to violate the European Union's rules intended to protect people's online data, known as the General Data Protection Regulation.


Machine Learning Engineer - Music Recommendation

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We are looking for a smart and creative Machine Learning Engineer. With your expertise, you will bring new ideas to the team and improve our music recommendation services. Your role will be to to solve real world problems by applying machine learning technics. From the simplest heuristic rule to the most advanced state of the art model, you have only one goal: provide the best listening experience to our users.