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5 types of recommender systems and their impact on customer experience

Overview of recommender systems, which are information filtering algorithms design to suggest content or products to a particular user.

  • The App Solutions
  • 7 min
  • Singularity Hub
  • 2018
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Hacking the Mind just got easier with these new tools

New inventions which help study or improve brain functions will hopefully become more democratized and obtainable down the road, despite being currently expensive. Machines such as wearable MRIs or Brain-Machine Interfaces ideally simplify invasive medical procedures, and provide hopes for recovery from afflictions such as strokes or depression.

  • Singularity Hub
  • 2018
  • 7 min
  • Mad Scientist Laboratory
  • 2018
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Man Machine Rules

The combination of the profit motive for tech companies and the vague language of non-binding ehtical agreements for coders means that there must be a higher regulation for ethical deployment and use of technology. Argues that there must be clear demarcations between what is considered real and human versus fake and virtual. Digital technologies should be regulated in a manner similar to other technologies, such as guns, cars, or nuclear weapons.

  • Mad Scientist Laboratory
  • 2018
  • 10 min
  • MEL Beta
  • 2019
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After 15 Years, The Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed

The continued existence of pirating websites such as The Pirate Bay demonstrates how digital technologies can be used against institutions such as copyright, and further designates the idea of a completely free and open internet.

  • MEL Beta
  • 2019
  • 4 min
  • OneZero
  • 2020
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Dr. Timnit Gebru, Joy Buolamwini, Deborah Raji — an Enduring Sisterhood of Face Queens

A group of “Face Queens” (Dr. Timnit Gebru, Joy Buolamwini, and Deborah Raji) have joined forces to do important racial justice and equity work in the field of computer vision, struggling against racism in the industry to whistleblow against biased machine learning and computer vision technologies still deployed by companies like Amazon.

  • OneZero
  • 2020
  • 4 min
  • VentureBeat
  • 2020
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Researchers Find that Even Fair Hiring Algorithms Can Be Biased

A study on the engine of TaskRabbit, an app which uses an algorithm to recommend the best workers for a specific task, demonstrates that even algorithms which attempt to account for fairness and parity in representation can fail to provide what they promise depending on different contexts.

  • VentureBeat
  • 2020
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