Racist Artificial Intelligence strikes again<\/strong><\/h2>\nAnd speaking of artificial intelligence I, yet another poorly trained algorithm has put yet another Internet giant in serious trouble. This time it was Twitter’s turn.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Have you ever wondered how the platform decides what parts of a
\npicture to crop in preview mode? It is, of course, an image-cropping algorithm.
\nUsing a combination of tools, Twitter tries to prioritise faces and text,
\nunless your face is black.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ironically, the issue was discovered when a PhD student was
\ntrying to tweet about another racially-biased algorithm he had encountered on
\nZoom. The videoconferencing service had erased the image of his black colleague
\nafter failing to recognise his face. Twitter decided that wasn’t enough and
\nerased his colleague from the screen capture too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although the company was quick to apologise for not testing the algorithm thoroughly enough, Twitter feeds quickly filled up with people doing experiments to test the flaw. Some even tried posting images of differently coloured dogs.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Time for lessons to be learnt. <\/p>\n
<\/div>\nAnnouncements from Microsoft Ignite<\/strong><\/h2>\nMicrosoft has
\nkickstarted its annual Ignite user-focused conference by announcing a series of
\nadditions to its cloud and productivity portfolios.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Teams is getting new security and compliance-related features,
\nas well as a suite of new tools to help companies better support remote
\nworkers. The latter are mainly data insights to assess the overall wellbeing of
\nemployees, made available to users and managers to help them improve
\nproductivity and reduce burnout.<\/p>\n
The company has also teased Virtual Commute, an upcoming Teams functionality aimed at helping workers unwind after a long day of work. Hmm, how about not being on Teams after working hours to start with? <\/p>\n
Plans to expand Azure Stack’s hybrid cloud capabilities have also been announced. The platform lets businesses run public cloud-like workloads within on-premise data centres. Users will be now able to run and deploy containerized applications on the setup, while the Azure Stack Hub will incorporate GPU support for broader machine learning capabilities.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\npicture to crop in preview mode? It is, of course, an image-cropping algorithm.
\nUsing a combination of tools, Twitter tries to prioritise faces and text,
\nunless your face is black.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\ntrying to tweet about another racially-biased algorithm he had encountered on
\nZoom. The videoconferencing service had erased the image of his black colleague
\nafter failing to recognise his face. Twitter decided that wasn’t enough and
\nerased his colleague from the screen capture too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Announcements from Microsoft Ignite<\/strong><\/h2>\nMicrosoft has
\nkickstarted its annual Ignite user-focused conference by announcing a series of
\nadditions to its cloud and productivity portfolios.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Teams is getting new security and compliance-related features,
\nas well as a suite of new tools to help companies better support remote
\nworkers. The latter are mainly data insights to assess the overall wellbeing of
\nemployees, made available to users and managers to help them improve
\nproductivity and reduce burnout.<\/p>\n
The company has also teased Virtual Commute, an upcoming Teams functionality aimed at helping workers unwind after a long day of work. Hmm, how about not being on Teams after working hours to start with? <\/p>\n
Plans to expand Azure Stack’s hybrid cloud capabilities have also been announced. The platform lets businesses run public cloud-like workloads within on-premise data centres. Users will be now able to run and deploy containerized applications on the setup, while the Azure Stack Hub will incorporate GPU support for broader machine learning capabilities.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\nkickstarted its annual Ignite user-focused conference by announcing a series of
\nadditions to its cloud and productivity portfolios.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nas well as a suite of new tools to help companies better support remote
\nworkers. The latter are mainly data insights to assess the overall wellbeing of
\nemployees, made available to users and managers to help them improve
\nproductivity and reduce burnout.<\/p>\n
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