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YouTube says it’s better at removing videos that violate its rules, but those rules are in flux

Vox

YouTube is shedding new light on how it moderates its sprawling video platform, which has billions of views each day. YouTube also said on Tuesday that it’s able to take down 94 percent of content that breaks its rules with automated flagging systems, and that the large majority of those videos are caught before they get 10 views.

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Social media companies are already losing the vaccine misinformation fight

Vox

Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have ramped up their policies against coronavirus misinformation and banned false claims about Covid-19 vaccines. It linked to a YouTube video that references the “Plandemic” conspiracy theory and Bill Gates. Content that spreads doubt about vaccines is easy to find online.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

Rajeswaran V, senior director at Capgemini, notes that Open AI’s GPT-3 model has mastered language without using any labeled data. Patents, product specifications, academic publications, market research, news, not to mention social media feeds, all have text as a primary component and the volume of text is constantly growing.

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GeekWire Podcast: NY Times vs. Microsoft; Plus, Oren Etzioni on AI in 2023 and beyond

GeekWire

” The need for strong open-source models: “The consolidation of power in AI is a huge risk. The countervailing forces are, number one, open source models. But we also had Linux, which the open-source movement championed. I think it’s going to be easily 10 times a day on average.”

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Protein design pioneer David Baker on why sharing code is key to building biotech startups

GeekWire

They’re pretty much the industry standard,” said Baker of the new open-source tools. studies and postdoctoral work in the Bay Area. ” Baker, who switched to science after first studying social studies in college, didn’t start out with the goal of becoming an entrepreneur.

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Facebook is taking a hard look at racial bias in its algorithms

Vox

Facebook has announced it will study racial bias in the algorithms used on both its platform and Instagram, which it owns. Facebook has announced it’s building teams that will study racial bias baked into the algorithms used on its platform and on Instagram, which it owns. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos: COVID-19 is ‘the planet’s warning’ to accelerate digital civilization

GeekWire

Mårten Mickos speaks with GeekWire via video chat in advance of his keynote this Thursday May 14 at the third annual Nordic Innovation Summit, a free virtual event this year. A native of Finland, he’s the former CEO of MySQL, the open-source database company that was sold to Sun Microsystems in 2008. Screenshot via Zoom.).