The Computational Propaganda Research Project (COMPROP) investigates the interaction of algorithms, automation and politics. This work includes analysis of how tools like social media bots are used to manipulate public opinion by amplifying or repressing political content, disinformation, hate speech, and junk news. We use perspectives from organizational sociology, human computer interaction, communication, information science,… Continue reading The Computational Propaganda Research Project
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AI as a Black Box
Extract from: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/ The workings of any machine-learning technology are inherently more opaque, even to computer scientists, than a hand-coded system. This is not to say that all future AI techniques will be equally unknowable. But by its nature, deep learning is a particularly dark black box. You can’t just look inside a deep neural… Continue reading AI as a Black Box