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ailiphilia@feddit.itto Technology@beehaw.org•Quad9 Turns the Sony Case Around in Dresden12·1 year agoItalian Blocking Demands: Following a Bad Example
While [Quad9’s] case in Germany has been found in favor of Quad9, we have been served with another demand from commercial interests in an EU nation to block domain names, again based on alleged copyright violations. Italian legal representatives have presented us with a list of domains and a demand for blocking those domains. Now we must again determine the path to take forward fighting this legal battle, in another nation in which we are neither headquartered nor have any offices or corporate presence.
ailiphilia@feddit.itto Technology@beehaw.org•Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism5·2 years agoIt doesn’t appear to be limited to racism.
Humans inherit artificial intelligence biases
Artificial intelligence recommendations are sometimes erroneous and biased. In our research, we hypothesized that people who perform a (simulated) medical diagnostic task assisted by a biased AI system will reproduce the model’s bias in their own decisions, even when they move to a context without AI support. In three experiments, participants completed a medical-themed classification task with or without the help of a biased AI system. The biased recommendations by the AI influenced participants’ decisions. Moreover, when those participants, assisted by the AI, moved on to perform the task without assistance, they made the same errors as the AI had made during the previous phase. Thus, participants’ responses mimicked AI bias even when the AI was no longer making suggestions. These results provide evidence of human inheritance of AI bias.
ailiphilia@feddit.itto Technology@beehaw.org•Bluesky Continues Rapid Growth, Reaches Federation Milestone7·2 years agoIf they can get any non-bluesky-the-company folk to create instances then that’s just scaling they don’t have to pay for and a convenient legal scapegoat for the inevitable consequences of their lax moderation.
Yes. This exactly is their whole business model. There has been a very good article about bluesky around for some time about that fyi.
ailiphilia@feddit.itOPto Technology@beehaw.org•UNESCO calls for global ban on smartphones in schools6·2 years agoJust a question: Are the tech managers in Silicon Valley also idiots? I posted the article already, but here’s it again as the thread has become long: https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/dec/02/schools-that-ban-tablets-traditional-education-silicon-valley-london
ailiphilia@feddit.itOPto Technology@beehaw.org•UNESCO calls for global ban on smartphones in schools13·2 years agoIt is doable, but the parents must contribute to that.
ailiphilia@feddit.itOPto Technology@beehaw.org•UNESCO calls for global ban on smartphones in schools7·2 years agoTablets out, imagination in: the schools that shun technology (2015)
In the heart of Silicon Valley is a nine-classroom school where employees of tech giants Google, Apple and Yahoo send their children. But despite its location in America’s digital centre, there is not an iPad, smartphone or screen in sight.
Unfortunately, this is not only your country which is wasting time on meaningless (and sometimes harmful) things. If big (!) business is involved, there is no such thing as a “country” imho. It’s just big corporations and the rest.