Martin Boss figured out that one of the most important ways to grow your Twitter account was to engage with like-minded people. Twitter is primarily a social platform, rather than a content one. Content meant nothing if nobody was there to see it, and creating content didn’t earn you followers because tweets get buried all the time. He suggests hanging out in tweet replies and profiles of people you want to connect with in order to grow your Twitter fame. Read full article here
Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
