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PLUS: NYC starts enforcing AI hiring law

September 04, 2023

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Today's Highlights:

  • Meta's DINOv2 and FACET aimed at fairer AI technology

  • NYC starts enforcing AI hiring law

  • AI is transforming nuclear fusion into a cleaner energy source

DEEP DIVE

Moving Fairness Into Focus With Meta's Computer Vision Models

Strides in Artificial Intelligence should never be at the cost of fair treatment of everyone, including historically marginalized communities.

"We want to continue advancing AI systems while acknowledging and addressing potentially harmful effects of that technological progress on historically marginalized communities."

— Meta

Meta expands DINOv2—a cutting-edge computer vision model for semantic image segmentation and monocular depth estimation. You can experience the model's full potential in an online demo.

Alongside DINOv2 is the FACET (FAirness in Computer Vision EvaluaTion)—a benchmark tool created to evaluate the fairness of computer vision models. The tool uses a dataset of 32,000 images containing 50,000 people labeled for demographic and physical attributes.

FACET helps us answer questions like:

  • Are models better at classifying people as skateboarders when their perceived gender presentation has more stereotypically male attributes?

  • Are open-vocabulary detection models better at detecting backpackers who are perceived to be younger?

  • Do standard detection models struggle to detect or segment people with darker skin?

  • Are these problems magnified when the person has curly hair compared to straight hair?

Initial findings from FACET have already highlighted gender and skin-tone-biased disparities among current models. By launching DINOv2 and FACET, Meta AI is paving the way for fairer, more responsible AI technology.

PUNCHLINES

Musk Mines Twitter: xAI, Musk's new venture, plans to tap into Twitter's user data for AI experiments.

Drive Me to Work: Oxa gears up to introduce driverless shuttles in Florida after securing a $140 million Series C funding.

New-Age Dating: Forever Companion revolutionizes dating with AI-generated celeb chatbots you can date on demand.

Riding the AI wave: Dell and Samsung's shares leap amid growing demand for AI-optimized servers and high-capacity memory chips.

Deepfake Dangers: Voice deepfakes have enabled scammers to trick their victims into sending them money more convincingly.

TLDR

AI could unlock the potential of nuclear fusion as a clean energy source: Researchers at Aix-Marseille Universite in France are using ML in combination with plasma spectroscopy to determine the optimal ratios of hydrogen isotopes for nuclear fusion plasma performance. This represents a significant step toward clean and sustainable nuclear fusion energy by improving the prediction of tritium content in fusion plasmas—an aspect regulated due to safety concerns.

Schumer to hold AI Summit with Tech Giants: Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, is organizing an AI Insight Forum with prominent tech tycoons like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. The forum aims to gather perspectives before shaping potential AI regulations but invites criticism for focusing on input from the tech industry’s upper crust.

NYC starts enforcing its AI hiring law: NYC has initiated its crackdown on companies evading the new law (NYC Law 144) that regulates the use of AI in employment decisions. This affects global enterprises with operations in NYC. While the law doesn’t ban AI, it sets clear guidelines for its use in hiring decisions, enhancing transparency and reducing discriminatory practices.

AI can lift human spirits, says Deepmind founder: Mustafa Suleyman, founder of Deepmind, claims AI can provide emotional support and play a significant role in mental health, filling gaps where positive family experiences are lacking. Acknowledging the potential risks of AI advancements, he proposes strategies like increasing security researchers and implementing screening into DNA synthesizers to counter them.

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