This week's headlines... and some big news from the ML team!
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Awesome, not awesome.
#Awesome
“An artificial intelligence has beaten eight world champions at bridge, a game in which human supremacy has resisted the march of the machines until now.
The victory represents a new milestone for AI because in bridge players work with incomplete information and must react to the behaviour of several other players – a scenario far closer to human decision-making.” - Laura Spinney, Science Journalist Learn More from The Guardian >
#Not Awesome
“A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to potential “integrity risks” over the past six months, according to an internal report on the incident obtained by The Verge.
The engineers first noticed the issue last October, when a sudden surge of misinformation began flowing through the News Feed, notes the report, which was shared inside the company last week. Instead of suppressing posts from repeat misinformation offenders that were reviewed by the company’s network of outside fact-checkers, the News Feed was instead giving the posts distribution, spiking views by as much as 30 percent globally. Unable to find the root cause, the engineers watched the surge subside a few weeks later and then flare up repeatedly until the ranking issue was fixed on March 11th.” - Alex Heath, Senior Reporter Learn More from The Verge >
What we're reading.
1/ Tesla’s head of AI, Andrej Karpathy, has begun a four month sabbatical. Why does this matter? He is seen as a key member of Tesla’s AI team as it hopes to expand Full Self-Driving capabilities and the concern is that other Tesla execs have left following their sabbatical. Learn More from Electrek >
2/ The New York Mets (Major League Baseball team) is introducing a new (optional) facial recognition ticketing system for the 2022 season. Learn More from Sports Business Journal >
3/ Key members of Meta’s AI team have begun to leave the company. Will this have any affect on their “Metaverse” plans? Learn More from CNBC >
4/ The Mayflower Autonomous Ship is going to attempt its second trip across the Atlantic Ocean. The ship is controlled by IBM’s AI Captain that allows it to see ad avoid obstacles on its journey. Technical difficulties cut the first attempt short roughly one year ago. Learn More from Seapower >
5/ Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that has been mentioned countless times in this newsletter, plans to branch out beyond law enforcement and government to offer its services to banks and other private businesses. Learn More from The Seattle Times >
6/ A new app uses machine learning to translate Braille by simply taking a picture of it. Seconds later, your phone is able to translate the Braille into text. Learn More from 9to5Mac >
7/ [Funding] Dental startup VideaHealth has raised $20 million to expand its AI-based diagnostics capabilities. Learn More from HIT Consultant >