A look at Russia's tech industry decline, accelerated by the country's war against Ukraine, further pushing Yandex and other successful companies into isolation
Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin packed up his and his family's belongings, canceled the lease … Tweets: @mashaborak , @phuenermund , and @eileenguo Tweets: Masha Borak / @ma...
Study: LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 4M+ users in 2015 and 16M+ in 2019, could have affected some users' livelihoods
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. Tweets: @drtechlash , @johncoogan , @alexstamos , @zo...
A look at the privacy concerns raised by OpenAI's GPT-3, Google's LaMDA, Meta's OPT-175B, and other large language models trained on troves of personal data
Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @garymarcus , @eileenguo , @zcobb , and @hypervisible Tweets: Gary Marcus / @garymarcus : LLMs are an incorrigible mix of misinformation and privacy...
A look at the privacy concerns raised by OpenAI's GPT-3, Google's LaMDA, Meta's OPT-175B, and other large language models trained on troves of personal data
Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet. So I wanted to know: What does it have on me? Tweets: @garymarcus , @hypervisible , @eileenguo , and @zcobb Tw...
The war in Ukraine has prompted militaries to invest more money into AI; NATO has announced a ~$1B fund to invest in startups developing “priority” tech like AI
The invasion of Ukraine has prompted militaries to update their arsenals—and Silicon Valley stands to capitalize. Tweets: @iethics , @techreview , @eileenguo , @iethics , @amynordrum , @warinthefuture...
Machine learning-powered surveillance systems will never eliminate the risk of US school shootings, no matter how expansive and intricate the systems become
Chris Gilliard / Wired : Tweets: @hypervisible , @chrisggarrod , @barryfriedman1 , @eileenguo , @missig_geek , @iwillleavenow , @evacide , and @autumm Tweets: @hypervisible : New Wired piece. “...at ...
ML-powered surveillance systems will never eliminate the risk of school shootings in the US, no matter how expansive and intricate those systems become
The failure is not only in the spurious systems, but in the belief that more data can improve them. — If we are to believe the purveyors … Tweets: @hypervisible , @autumm , @barryfriedman1 , @eileen...
Some Instagram accounts, such as NextShark, increasingly document incidents of anti-Asian violence that some say spurs a relentless cycle of aggregated trauma
Terry Nguyen / Vox : Tweets: @terrygtnguyen , @abbyohlheiser , @delia_cai , @notoriousecg , @eileenguo , @noahreservation , @filipgwriting , @raywongy , @er_ique , @niemanlab , @katxmoon , @terrygtng...
A deep dive into Sudan's 2019 internet shutdown, how telecom engineers disrupted the government's control over the internet, and the future of digital rights
How citizens, telecom employees, and activists in Sudan turned a battle for digital rights into a referendum on the government Tweets: @jacobkushner , @restofworld , @accessnow , @eileenguo , @gijnafr...