Tag: algorithms

Here’s Proof the AI Boom Is Real: More People Are Tapping ChatGPT at Work

Ever since the rollout of ChatGPT in November 2022, many people in science, business, and media have been obsessed with AI. A cursory look...

Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds

For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different experience than the services’...

Netflix’s Bela Bajaria Talks ‘Myth Busters’ at UCLA Law Event: ‘Algorithms Don’t Decide What We Make’

Netflix chief content officer Bela Bajaria used the platform of her keynote address Friday at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium to dispel a few myths...

The Future of the Web Is Marketing Copy Generated by Algorithms

As we move further into the 21st century, more and more aspects of our lives are being controlled by algorithms. Facebook decides which posts...

YouTube’s Captions Insert Explicit Language in Kids’ Videos

“It’s startling and disturbing,” says Ashique KhudaBukhsh, an assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology who researched the problem with collaborators Krithika Ramesh and...

YouTube’s Olympics Highlights Are Riddled With Propaganda

Sports fans who tuned in to watch the Beijing Winter Olympics on YouTube are instead being served propaganda videos. An analysis of YouTube search...

It’s Time to Talk About Facebook Research

Steven Levy covers the gamut of tech subjects for WIRED, in print and online, and has been contributing to the magazine since its inception....

If YouTube Algorithms Radicalize Users, Data Doesn’t Show It

We've all seen it happen: Watch one video on YouTube and your recommendations shift, as if Google's algorithms think the video's subject is your...

As the Use of AI Spreads, Congress Looks to Rein It In

There’s bipartisan agreement in Washington that the US government should do more to support development of artificial intelligence technology. The Trump administration redirected...

Human instinct can be as useful as algorithms in detecting online ‘deception’

Travellers looking to book a hotel should trust their gut instinct when it comes to online reviews rather than relying on computer algorithms to...

Why a YouTube Chat About Chess Got Flagged for Hate Speech

Last June, Antonio Radić, the host of a YouTube chess channel with more than a million subscribers, was live-streaming an interview with the...

Gig Workers Gather Their Own Data to Check the Algorithm’s Math

Armin Samii had been biking for UberEats for a few weeks last July when he accepted a delivery he estimated would take 20 minutes,...

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