Machine learning may be inherently racist and sexist if it learns from humans and will typically favour white men, research has shown. Machine-learning algorithms, which will mimic humans and society’s actions, will have an unfair bias against women and ethnic minorities. Noel Sharkey, Co-Director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, […]
Daily Archives: October 3, 2017
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Cuphead is one of the biggest exclusives arriving on the Xbox One, Xbox One X and Windows PCs this year, and the sales figures for the run-and-gun game are already very impressive. Cuphead was ranked as the fourth best-selling game on Steam in the latest Steam Charts, according to Rock […]
Last August, the 49-year-old actor announced he would return for a fifth and final James Bond movie. Rumoured to be titled Shatterhand, the 007 film will be released in November 2019. Now it looks like Craig will be playing the villain in another project, namely X-Men movie Gambit, which Channing […]
Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock wired $100,000 to an account in his live-in girlfriend’s home country of the Philippines in the week before he killed at least 59 people in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, according to multiple senior law enforcement officials. Marilou Danley, 62, traveled to Hong […]
A new higher power?Hufton and Crow/Corbis/Getty For AI programmer Anthony Levandowski, the idea that a future superintelligent machine would be god-like is neither a metaphor nor a science fiction trope. It’s a goal, apparently. Levandowski founded a self-driving truck company that was bought by Google in 2016 (and is now […]
Two women are on trial for the murder of Kim Jong-nam and stand accused of poisoning the dictator’s brother with VX before he collapsed and died at Kuala Lumpur airport on February 13. VX, short for ‘venomous agent X’, has been banned by the United Nations, but analysts believe North […]
Several prominent SNP politicians made the trip to Spain as well as a contingent of the party’s youth members. Senior SNP figure Tricia Marwick addressed a pro-independence rally and former party leader Alex Salmond appeared on Catalan TV. The MPs and MSPs said they were there as part of a […]