In a letter to members of Congress, IBM says it's exiting the general-purpose facial recognition business and opposes the use of such tech for mass surveillance
and +1 on this (tho already a bit late): “We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agenci...
Interview with Baidu CEO Robin Li and others on how the company plans to dominate AI, especially in Asia, helped along by China's desire to be AI world leader
Jessi Hempel / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @baidu_inc , @jessiwrites , and @fittsofalexis Tweets: @wired : “In human history, humans invented tools, and then had to learn how to use them. In the future,...
Baidu COO Qi Lu on company's and China's AI ambitions, Baidu's DuerOS natural language-based AI platform, why Alexa ecosystem is ahead of rivals in US, more
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Facebook Heavily Promotes Live Video But Struggles To Deal With Its Visceral Aftermath
for better or for worse Jim Edwards / Business Insider : Facebook *is* biasing the news — but not in the way you think Abby Ohlheiser / Washington Post : Is Facebook ready for live video's important r...
Facebook releases Bot Engine to help developers build more complex, machine-learning enabled bots, a further development from last year's Wit.ai acquisition
Today we are releasing the first step of our vision … Selena Larson / The Daily Dot : Bots are about to invade Facebook, and they might make your life easier Nate Swanner / The Next Web : Dropbox file...
Telegram reports that 100M people use the free encrypted messaging app every month, up from 60M people last May
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Inside Facebook's Ambitious Plan to Connect the Whole World
Jessi Hempel / Wired : Tweets: @joshconstine and @stevesi Tweets: Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Nice overview of Facebook's Internet dot org by @jessiwrites http://www.wired.com/... humanizes the ...
Internet.org rebrands its free services mobile website and app as Free Basics to distinguish it from larger initiative, adds 60 new services, HTTPS support
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Zuckerberg downplays claim that Analytics for Apps, embeddable videos compete with Google products, talks about Facebook as a collection of services, more
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White House Names DJ Patil as the First US Chief Data Scientist
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