A Knight’s Tale director Brian Helgeland revealed his past efforts to make a sequel to his 2001 medieval action-comedy classic were stymied by the Netflix algorithm which deemed a female protagonist would lead to box office flop.
Scientists claim their new computer algorithm can predict crime in U.S. cities up to a week before it takes place with a 90 percent accuracy level, detecting “pre-crime” as in the science fiction book and film Minority Report.
Social media giant Facebook is reportedly forming new internal teams to study the algorithms that power both its social network and Instagram to determine if they are racially biased.
YouTube’s automated video recommendation system has been allowing otherwise innocent videos of children to be categorized with those preferred by pedophiles, says a report at the New York Times.
Facebook is reportedly introducing a new feature to its newsfeed that will explain to users why they’re seeing certain posts, which may range from interacting with an account in the past, or that the company’s algorithm is pushing the content.
A recent report claims that Google employees internally discussed burying search results for conservative media outlets like Breitbart News and The Daily Caller. One Google engineer made his intentions clear by commenting, “let’s make sure that we reverse things in four years.”
In a lengthy post, Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the problems with “algorithmic bias” and how to create a better appeals process.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai wrote in a blog post on Tuesday that we need to think “seriously” about whether social media giants need to abide by “new transparency” requirements regarding censorship and privacy.
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According to a new study of Facebook’s recent algorithm changes, which were designed to focus users’ News Feeds on posts from friends and family, the algorithm changes have actually made users more unhappy.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted today to altering the site’s algorithm to shut down certain speech on the platform.
Peter Schweizer argued at Breitbart News’ town hall on Thursday that “transparency would be a good solution” for Google’s secret search algorithm.
A computer algorithm designed to determine the reoffending risk of criminals has been deemed inaccurate, according to a report.
Google Translate has been criticized for “sexist” algorithms, which associated nurses and cooks with women and engineers with men.
Libertarian Internet pioneer Peter Thiel is not the only one concerned about the danger to freedom from tech monopolies like Google.
PornHub has revealed an algorithm that automatically detects actors and sex acts in videos, before listing them, according to a report.
Google announced that their monopolistic search engine that controls 87 percent of page views will use its machine learning tool set to assist liberal groups in doubling down on purging conservative speech they consider hate.
Applying technology to policing is nothing new, and for some time technologists have been attempting to create computer programs to help police predict and interdict crime. But as far as some District commanders for the Chicago Police are concerned, such predictive software is a potentially important new weapon in the fight against crime.
Washington (AFP) – When you browse online for a new pair of shoes, pick a movie to stream on Netflix or apply for a car loan, an algorithm likely has its word to say on the outcome.
538’s editor-in-chief Nate Silver, who famously predicted the outcome of the 2012 election, outlined how the GOP establishment could throw the 2016 election to Marco Rubio.
