Our understanding of progress in machine learning has been colored by flawed testing data. The 10 most cited AI data sets are riddled with label errors, according to a new study out of MIT, and it’s ...

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence. By Kevin Roose Reporting from San ...

It’s an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. Image corpora tends to be U.S.- and Western-centric, partly because Western images dominated the internet when the ...

A new tool, Data Provenance Explorer, lets users pick through the questionable provenance of many large data sets used for AI training. A new online tool allows users to identify, track and learn ...

Your data reveals more than you think. Sandra Matz explains how AI-driven psychological targeting can influence your choices and offers advice on how to navigate the digital world safer. About Sandara ...

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