2022-10-30
Wall Street Journal
Amid a downturn, tech companies may shift their focus from “gee-whiz” projects, like self-driving cars and metaverses, to truly useful products that make money
History shows that downturns are when the industry shifts focus from flashy novelties to things that are truly useful Tweets: @mims , @wsj , @mims , @jessefelder , @tunguz , @fosspatents , @jason_pont...
2020-01-13
Wired
Q&A with Twitter's head of product Kayvon Beykpour about how Twitter is trying to stop incentivizing toxic behavior, giving users a “troll score”, more
Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter's head of product, admits the platform can still incentivize toxic behavior. Tweets: @nxthompson , @ppmerino , @jason_pontin , @mattnavarra , and @jenlucpiquant Tweets: Nichol...
2019-10-19
MIT Technology Review
A game made with a real world dataset of defendants shows the shortcomings of COMPAS, an AI-powered risk assessment tool used in the US criminal legal system
The US criminal legal system uses predictive algorithms to try to make the judicial process less biased. But there's a deeper problem. Tweets: @_karenhao , @marylgray , @ledataminer , @varoonmathur ,...
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