After a fateful meeting with International Swimming Federation’s (FINA) chief executive, Katinka Hosszu realized that FINA (and by extension, the Olympics) didn’t care about sports or athletes, only money. When this detestable tainting of the sport was revealed, Hosszu and other world-class swimmers jumped ship to the International Swimming League, an organization attempting to reinvigorate the future of swimming through modernization, fair compensation, and annual competitions that could turn swimmers into superstars. 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
