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She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all

The Guardian

Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light by someone who had zoomed in on Madi's face – but it was damning. Madi was a cheerleader with the Victory Vipers, a highly competitive "all-star" squad based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The Vipers had a strict code of conduct; being caught partying and vaping could have got her thrown out of the team. And in July 2020, an anonymous person sent the incriminating video directly to Madi's coaches. Eight months later, that footage was the subject of a police news conference. "The police reviewed the video and other photographic images and found them to be what we now know to be called deepfakes," district attorney Matt Weintraub told the assembled journalists at the Bucks County courthouse on 15 March 2021. Someone was deploying cutting-edge technology to tarnish a teenage cheerleader's reputation. The vaping video was just one of many disturbing communications brought to the attention of Hilltown Township police department, Weintraub said. Madi had been receiving messages telling her she should kill herself. Her mother, Jennifer Hime, had told officers someone had been taking images from Madi's social media and manipulating them "to make her appear to be drinking".


Womanhood is 'not a game of semantics,' attorney says after judge allows transgender sorority sister to remain

FOX News

A plaintiff in the lawsuit, Allie, and her lawyer Cassie Craven, join'America's Newsroom' to discuss the case, saying it is not about'trans inclusion,' but'erasing women.' Days after MSNBC interviewed transgender Wyoming sorority sister Artemis Langford following a judge's ruling in Langford's favor, a sorority sister and her attorney reacted on "America Reports." Artemis Langford, a transgender member of Kappa Kappa Gamma's University of Wyoming chapter, criticized media and public scrutiny received following the lawsuit, which was launched by several members of the college's chapter against the national sorority organization to bar Langford from membership. Federal Judge Alan Johnson, a Reagan appointee, ruled his court "will not define'woman' today," citing the lack of a definition of woman in KKG bylaws. The court cannot impede KKG's "freedom of expressive association," Johnson ruled.


Women Innovators And Researchers Who Made A Difference In AI In 2021

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There is a troubling and persistent absence of women when it comes to the field of artificial intelligence and data science. Women constitute a mere 22 per cent or less than a quarter of professionals in this field, as says the report "Where are the women? Yet, despite low participation and obstacles, women are breaking the silos and setting an example for players out in the field of AI. To honour their commitment and work done, we have listed some of the women innovators and researchers who have worked tirelessly and contributed significantly to the field of AI and data science. The list below is provided in no particular order.


Greatest Female AI Influencers in the Data Science World in 2021

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Data science has proven to be successful in addressing a wide range of real-world issues, and it is increasingly being used across industries to enable more intelligent and well-informed decision-making. There is a need for intelligent machines that can understand human actions and job habits as the use of computers for day-to-day business and personal operations expands. This pushes big data analytics and data science to the foreground. Women have made enormous advances in AI research in recent years. In this article, Analytics Insight presents you the list of Greatest Female AI Influencers in the Data Science World in 2021.


PowerTransformer uses AI to rewrite text to correct gender biases in character portrayals

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Unconscious biases are pervasive in text and media. For example, female characters in stories are often portrayed as passive and powerless while men are portrayed as more proactive and powerful. According to a McKinsey study of 120 movies across ten markets, the ratio of male to female characters was 3:1 in 2016, the same it's been since 1946. Motivated by this, researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the University of Washington created PowerTransformer, a tool that aims to rewrite text to correct implicit and potentially undesirable bias in character portrayals. They claim that PowerTransformer is a major a step toward mitigating well-documented gender bias in movie scripts, as well as other scripts in other forms of media.


Envisioning the Work Life of an Employee in a Chatbot-Driven Enterprise - BotCore

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A chatbot is a computer program or an artificial intelligence which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods. Chatbots are often designed to convincingly simulate how a human would behave as a conversational partner and are used for various practical enterprise use cases including customer service, IT helpdesk, HR or information acquisition (Business Intelligence). ABC Corp uses BotCore's AI chatbot which enables organizations to build and deploy customized AI chatbots. So, let us see how Nathan's life at ABC Corp. has been impacted by chatbots. Nathan has joined as a Marketing Manager.