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YouTube’s Content Moderators Are Asked to Contractually Acknowledge the Job Can Give Them PTSD

The contractors charged with keeping YouTube clean are reportedly being coerced to sign agreements acknowledging that the job could have a severe impact on their mental health. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/01/youtubes-content-moderators-are-asked-to-contractually-acknowledge-the-job-can-give-them-ptsd/
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Voices in AI – Episode 105: A Conversation with Andrew Busey

[voices_in_ai_byline] About this Episode On Episode 105 of Voices in AI , Byron speaks with Andrew Busey about the nature of intelligence and how we differentiate between artificial intelligence and ‘real’ intelligence. Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com Transcript Excerpt Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm, I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is Andrew Busey. He is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on building products. He created the first web-based chat systems and the first chat with a customer service rep option and many other early e-commerce social and gaming platforms. He most recently founded Conversable to make it easy for big brands to build experiences on Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Alexa, Google assistant and other next generation conversational platforms. He has 26 patents and one novel, Accidental Gods . He has a computer science degree from Duke University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the Universi
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Emoji We Lost

Changes in emoji over the years reflect and impact how we communicate, what we communicate, and even how we think. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/01/emoji-we-lost/
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'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem

It details a theoretical machine capable of solving the famous halting problem, which says a computer cannot determine whether it will ever be able to solve a problem it’s currently trying to solve. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/01/remarkable-mathematical-proof-describes-how-to-solve-seemingly-impossible-computing-problem/
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SpaceX’s First Private Billionaire Passenger Launches Search for Girlfriend to Take on Trip Around the Moon

“I want to find a ‘life partner.’ With that future partner of mine, I want to shout our love and world peace from outer space.” from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/01/spacexs-first-private-billionaire-passenger-launches-search-for-girlfriend-to-take-on-trip-around-the-moon/
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MIT Report Finds That Jeffrey Epstein Donated £650,000 to MIT Media Lab, Professor Seth Lloyd

Epstein's ties to MIT have become clearer following the publishing of a "fact-finding" report detailing the convicted paedophile's dealings with the technology institute. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/01/mit-report-finds-that-jeffrey-epstein-donated-650000-to-mit-media-lab-professor-seth-lloyd/
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Noah Hawley Says His Star Trek Will Respect the Series While Forging a 'New Beginning'

"I always approach this material understanding that people are really invested in these stories, and I treat the material with real respect, but I’m going to tell my own story now." from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/01/noah-hawley-says-his-star-trek-will-respect-the-series-while-forging-a-new-beginning/
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Microsoft Outsourced Skype, Cortana Voice Analysis to China With Virtually No Security in Place: Report

Microsoft reportedly had “no security measures” on a programme that had humans transcribe user voice recordings from its Skype video calling service and Cortana assistant. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/01/microsoft-outsourced-skype-cortana-voice-analysis-to-china-with-virtually-no-security-in-place-report/
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Voices in AI – Episode 104: A Conversation with Anirudh Koul

[voices_in_ai_byline] About this Episode On Episode 104 of Voices in AI , Byron Reese discusses the nature of intelligence and how artificial intelligence evolves and becomes viable in today’s world. Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com Transcript Excerpt Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm, I’m Byron Reese. Today, my guest is Anirudh Koul. He is the head of Artificial Intelligence and Research at Aira and the founder of Seeing AI. Before that he was a data scientist at Microsoft for six years. He has a Masters of Computational Data Science from Carnegie Mellon and some of his work was just called by Time magazine, ‘One of the best inventions of 2018,’ which I’m sure we will come to in a minute. Welcome to the show Anirudh. Anirudh Koul: It’s a pleasure being here. Hi to everyone. So I always like to start off with—I don’t wanna call it a philosophical question—but it’s sort of definitional question which is, what is art
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