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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

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Timnit Gebru was a well-known scholar in the AI ethics community long before she got fired by Google in December 2020—but that messy and dramatic incident brought a new level of attention to her work. Spatial apartheid is legally over. Since then, Gebru has been staffing up. Timnit Gebru and Alex Hanna on. Timnit Gebru: Yes.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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By 2020, you will be able to own a car with advanced safety features helping avoid collisions, preventing you from drifting into the next lane, providing valet parking and allowing you to touch an “autopilot” button to have the car drive itself. So far, permits have been issued to Google, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Delphi, and Audi.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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Huawei has said it would not comply with such a request and believes that it cannot be legally forced to do so. With US companies barred from doing business with Huawei, Google could no longer license its Android operating system—the operating system that runs most of the world's phones—to Huawei. So the U.S.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. The main reason is because the E.U. million people.

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

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One of these warrants, served on Google and covering the interior of the Capitol, showed that a device associated with the Gmail account in question entered the Senate Wing door at 2:18 p.m. The legal documents suggest that about 35 rioters were identified this way, without first being named by witnesses. on 6 January.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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on 3 December 2020, the U.S As such, there are many reasons to be concerned about its use in the criminal legal system. A 2020 U.S. Even something as simple as putting in an order at a McDonald’s drive-through in Illinois has raised legal questions about collecting biometric data without consent. At 6:36 a.m.,

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EleutherAI: When OpenAI Isn’t Open Enough

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They initially built a large language model with 6 billion parameters, using hardware provided by Google as part of its TPU Research Cloud Program. EleutherAI came together in July 2020 with a group of “mostly self-taught hackers” chatting on the social media platform Discord. “It There is no formal legal structure. license.

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