Thanks to machine learning, you may not have to worry about typing physically printed links into your web browser. Oleksii Trekhleb’s Links Detector app scans book pages in real time for links and converts them to a link you can open on your smartphone. Using TensorFlow with a library he created by himself, he trained the app to look for “https://” (denoting a link), so the app doesn’t waste resources scanning the whole body of text.
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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
