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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Bias
Data bias caused by poorly curated data is increasingly emerging as an important issue in the development of artificial intelligence. To this end, it is important to know that today’s AI is fed millions and millions of data sets through machine learning. Where this data comes from, and who selects and compiles it, is critical. …
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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Humor
An unassuming Twitter account featuring a pretty young lady who appeared to be a motorcycle enthusiast garnered a number of fans in Japan. She was repeatedly seen posing in front of the bike, standing in front of the sea with her motorcycle or tinkering with it in her workshop. Until someone discovered some inconsistencies. For …
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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Robot
In a TED Talk, robot ethicist Kate Darling of MIT describes how she demonstrated a small dinosaur robot to a friend. This little robot named Pleo had some sensors and motors built in, it could walk around and move its head, but it could also tell if it was standing upright or lying down. If …
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Category: Organisation, Silicon Valley
From a global perspective, Germany is an absolute workers’ paradise. Not the one that Marx and Engels imagined and the GDR wanted to realize and failed miserably, but one where trade unions have a proper say in company matters. On the one hand, this leads to the thoroughly intended positive results of generous vacation time …
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Category: Innovation, Silicon Valley
First COVID, then Palantir, then Hewlett Packard Enterprise and now Oracle. The news of recent weeks and months gives the impression that the area around San Francisco and San Jose, better known as Silicon Valley, is past its prime. The Corona crisis led to local companies having to offer home offices to their employees, which …
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Category: Innovation, Organisation
It is sometimes only a short way from the shooting star to the loathed spy tool to the takeover target. The Chinese music and short video platform TikTok has experienced a steep rise in the last few years and especially since the COVID lockdown. The app has seen two billion downloads so far, of which …
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Now it is official: Wirecard, Germany’s digital showpiece company, had to file for insolvency after an unprecedented share price rally. The trigger was 1.9 billion euros, which could not be confirmed in the Philippine accounts. This is why the audit report by KPMG, which Wirecard CEO Markus Braun actually intended as a liberating blow, had …
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One of the fears that people express about robots and artificial intelligence is that of jobs. What jobs will people do when machines take over? First of all, there are two ways in which physical and cognitive machines change the way we work. Firstly, in the way they replace entire professions, such as truck and …
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Like many other companies in the transport and travel industry, Germany’s flagship Lufthansa is fighting the COVID 19 pandemic and the imposed curfews and border closures. While the company was still in good shape at the beginning of the year, it has developed into a case of reorganisation in just a few months (through no …
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Category: Silicon Valley, Visit
Many years ago, a fellow Austrian student tried to find a job in Silicon Valley. He sent all his application letters to various recruiters and HR departments, all without success. Even then, in the early 1990s, the region between San Francisco and San Jose had that magical aura. Only back then, the companies were called …
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