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Edition #81 - November 19th, 2021
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🏡 Price Prediction Turns Perilous
The real-estate website Zillow bought and sold homes based on prices estimated by an algorithm — until Covid-19 confounded the model’s predictive power.
🤥 Who Has the Best Face Recognition?
Face recognition algorithms have come under scrutiny for misidentifying individuals. A U.S. government agency tested over 1,000 of them to see which are the most reliable.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the latest results of its ongoing Face Recognition Vendor Test. Several showed marked improvement over the previous round. More than 300 developers submitted 1,014 algorithms to at least one of four tests. The test datasets included mugshots of adults, visa photos, and images of child exploitation.
🔎 This Chatbot Does Its Research
Chatbots often respond to human input with incorrect or nonsensical answers. Why not enable them to search for helpful information?
Researchers at Facebook devised a chatbot that taps knowledge from the internet to generate correct, timely conversational responses.
💸 AI’s Smarts Now Come With a Big Price Tag
As language models get more complex, they also get more expensive to create and run. Some companies are locked out. Models need to be trained for specific tasks and can cost more than $50,000, paid to cloud computing companies to rent their computers and programs.
😠 Rate Severity of Toxic Comments for $50,000
The definition of a toxic comment on the Internet is subjective. Each individual may have their own bar set differently. But which comment is truly worse? Can you help determine the ‘severity’ of a comment?
🎅 Kaggle Competition: Santa 2021- The Merry Movie Montage
In the world of competing streaming services, even the North Pole is getting in the mix. Can you help the elves with the most efficient watch schedule for their holiday movie release? Optimize the order of Christmas movies the elves have to watch to view every possible order combination.
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