Information overload was a concept that existed well before the birth of the Internet; even the Bible features a complaint about the sheer number of books. The complaints only grew with the invention of the printing press, which brought with it an explosion of written works. Ironically, people published their criticisms of and countermeasures against information overload in print form. 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
