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VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now In a new preprint study, researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology, DePaul University, and the University of Colorado Boulder find evidence of bias in recommender systems like those surfacing movies on streaming websites. They …

VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now In a study accepted to the 2020 International Conference on Machine Learning last week, researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology and the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden propose a privacy-preserving technique that learns to …

Crowdfunding has become the de facto way to support peoples’ ventures and philanthropic efforts. But as crowdfunding platforms have risen to prominence, they’ve also attracted malicious actors seeking to take advantage of unsuspecting donors. Last August, a report from the Verge investigated the Dragonfly Futurefön, a decade-long fraud operation that …

Researchers at Salesforce and the University of Virginia have proposed a new way to mitigate gender bias in word embeddings, the word representations used to train AI models to summarize, translate languages, and perform other prediction tasks. The team claims that correcting for certain regularities — like word frequency in …

In a new paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at Intel, the University of Zurich, and ETH Zurich describe an AI system that enables autonomous drones to perform acrobatics like barrel rolls, loops, and flips with only onboard sensing and computation. By training entirely in simulation and leveraging …

A preprint published by Stanford University and Google researchers proposes an AI technique that predicts how goals were achieved, effectively learning to reverse-engineer tasks. They say it enables autonomous agents to learn through self-supervision, which some experts believe is a critical step toward truly intelligent systems. Learning general policies for …

A preprint study published by researchers at the Southern California Eye Institute, CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, and the University of California, Berkely investigated the biases that exist in COVID-19 case fatality ratios between groups and countries, like time- and severity-dependent reporting of cases and time-lags in outcomes. They found …

During a workshop hosted at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020, which took place on the web this week, panelists discussed how AI and machine learning might be — and already has been — applied to agricultural challenges. As several pointed out, countries around the world face a …

(Reuters) — Apple is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers. The bug, which also exists on iPads, was discovered by ZecOps, a San Francisco-based mobile security forensics company, while it was investigating a sophisticated …