Police forces are choosing humans over algorithms to make some identifications.
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ICE uses LexisNexis to track people's cars, gather information on people, and make arrests for its deportation machine, according to a contract.
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Ten years ago, I wrote a book titled In Praise of Ageing. I found there is strong evidence that our attitude to life influences our longevity. But the obstacles we face today make slouching towards Bethlehem seem like a walk in the park. The old I wrote about, shared several characteristics. They are not just Continue reading »
Near on a decade of neglect has left Australia’s national innovation system in a lamentable state, as the Academy of Science has observed. The most recent science funding tables show that government expenditure on Research and Development (R & D) as a percentage of GDP are at the lowest levels since records began. Further, that Continue reading »
Researchers uncover striking parallels in the ways that humans and machine learning models acquire language skills.
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Face-altering images are encouraging selfish behavior.
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Just released vehicle export figures for the first five months of 2023 indicated that China would be the world’s largest vehicle exporter in 2023. The country exported 325,000 passenger vehicles and 63,000 commercial vehicles for a total of 389,000 vehicles in May, a 58.7 per cent year-on-year surge. For the first five months, nearly 1.76 Continue reading »
Mass surveillance and manipulation should not be allowed to become the new normal. The Robodebt controversy directly affected more than 470,000 people, some of whom reputedly took their lives as a result of the harassment they received to repay debts to the Australian Government that they never incurred. The policy, which was first implemented under Continue reading »
The algorithm used for the cash relief program is broken, a Human Rights Watch report found.
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“This nation, after three thousand years of grandeur and decay… exhibits today all the physical and mental vitality that we find in its most creative periods… Very probably such wealth will be produced in China by 2030 as even America has never known and once again, as so often in the past, China will lead Continue reading »