Algorithms

Draft e-commerce policy: Survey reveals reservation on govt's data handling prowess, bats for splitting up policy into two

Around 30 percent of the respondents said that they had no confidence at all in the government's capability in protecting their data

Transparent algorithms won't solve the 'AI bias problem', you need to understand how data is used

What we need is to send the Algorithms to the data, make them open, decentralize and democratize.

Facebook crisis management in tailspin too, Zuckerberg silence is making things worse

The crisis-management playbook is pretty simple: Get ahead of the story, update authorities and the public regularly, assume responsibility and take decisive action. Crisis-management experts say Facebook is 0-for-4.

Facebook data whistleblower: 'fake news to the next level'

A Trump-affiliated firm under scrutiny for inappropriately obtaining data on tens of millions of Facebook users created profiling algorithms that "took fake news to the next level," a former employee said.

Facebook's algorithms come under scrutiny for failure to check fake news; security chief defends algorithms

Facebook uses algorithms to determine everything from what you see and do not see in News Feed, to finding and removing other content like hate speech.

Microsoft researchers at Redmond and Benguluru are developing tiny chips embedded with AI

A team of 30 researchers at Microsoft labs in Redmond and Benguluru are busy developing a new class of machine-learning software embedded on tiny devices.

Artificial Intelligence can now use a person's image and audio to create fake videos

Oxford University Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence system; the system uses a person's image and audio clip to create fake videos of the person.

Amazon's technological superiority is helping it dominate the e-commerce sector

The incident offers a case study in how Amazon's technological prowess is helping it dominate the retail competition.

Facebook is testing a second news feed with 'Rocket' icon; show users content that may interest them

Facebook often secretly tests out potential new features on a selected number of users and the button appears to be part of such a test.

Indian startups bet on Artifical Intelligence in 2017: PwC-Assocham Report

Researchers and paralegals are increasingly being replaced by systems that can extract facts and conclusions from over a billion text documents a second.