Facebook Strengthens AI To Improve Detection Effect Of Harassment And Hate Speech
Facebook updated its Community Standards Implementation Report. The latter showed the effectiveness of Facebook’s battle against harassment and hate speech in the fourth quarter of 2020.The penetration rate of hate speech dropped from 0.10-0.11% to 0.07-0.08%. This means that, for every 10,000 content views, there will be only 7 to…
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Google-aided filter censors ‘harmful’ internet content; Researchers claim 91pc accuracy, a big jump over the 70pc efficiency of traditional machine censors
A research team on the mainland claims to have developed a text censor that can filter “harmful information” on the internet with unprecedented accuracy using artificial intelligence.Traditional machine censors rely mainly on keywords to do this and struggle to achieve 70 per cent accuracy, while AI technology – which needs to…
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Scientists to work on cyber deception technology
Professor Debi Ashenden, Associate Professor Hung Nguyen and Associate Professor Damith Ranasinghe from the University of Adelaide's School of Computer Science have signed agreements to work on cyber deception technologies.“The University of Adelaide has signed four research agreements with with Defence Science and Technology Group's Next Generation Technology Fund out…
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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Intel’s AI tool screens patients for vision loss
In a country such as India that has a low doctor-patient ratio, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enable greater access to expert care from anywhere, with telehealth and robotics applied across inpatient and outpatient environments. Experts says AI will bolster the role of healthcare by assisting in screening, diagnosis, and treatment…
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Sign of the times: AI experts work on avatar for sign language
Experts at the University of Amsterdam are developing a computer programme that can translate into sign language, using the power of artificial intelligence.The project, part of SignLab Amsterdam, aims in the first instance to support parents of deaf children who are learning basic signing or for situations like announcements at…
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Bright minds, artificial and real, strain to fight bias in AI
In 2018, Liz O'Sullivan and her colleagues at a prominent artificial intelligence startup began work on a system that could automatically remove nudity and other explicit images from the internet. They sent millions of online photos to workers in India, who spent weeks adding tags to explicit material. The data…
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India sees surge in AI-enabled automated customer service agents
Automated customer service agents became the top Artificial Intelligence (AI) use case for the Indian organisations in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic kept millions at home and face-to-face interactions diminished across industries, according to a new report.The AI use cases gained momentum in India, driven by the need to ensure…
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Hospital studying if artificial intelligence can stop school violence
What if scientists could use artificial intelligence (AI) to create a tool that could prevent school shootings or other violence?Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center researchers are working on just that. A team there announced Thursday that the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded it a five-year grant…
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AI predicts how patients with viral infection will fare
A team of researchers has used an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm to sift through terabytes of gene expression data to look for shared patterns in patients with past pandemic viral infections, including SARS, MERS and swine flu.The researchers, including Pradipta Ghosh from the University of California San Diego, indicated two…
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AI put to work at SA’s largest port
Flinders Ports has an ambition – to make it as easy as possible to move containers back and forth as they work their way through South Australia’s major logistics hub. So it is perhaps poetic that the Adelaide company has brought artificial intelligence to bear, to crunch the numbers on…
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