Top news of the week: 18.12.2020.
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“I started crying”: Inside Timnit Gebru’s last days at Google—and what happens next
Two weeks after her forced exit, the AI ethics researcher reflects on her time at Google and the state of the AI field.
Climate change falls down the agenda at A.I. lab DeepMind after energy heads leave
The DeepMind Energy unit has vanished and none of the company's staff mention it on their LinkedIn profiles.
The Bulletin announces its 2020 Leonard M. Rieser Award
“Quantum computing will have an impact on national security, just not in the way that some of the policy community claims that it will.” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has named Jake ...
After The US Election, Key People Are Leaving Facebook And Torching The Company In Departure Notes
A departing Facebook employee said the social network's failure to act on hate speech “makes it embarrassing to work here.”
Adafruit guest post: Machine learning add-ons for Raspberry Pi
Ladyada from Adafruit guest-blogs about the Adafruit BrainCraft HAT and Voice Bonnet, both made for Raspberry Pi.
The Technical Limits of AI Ethics
In recent years, the global discussion on "AI ethics" has succeeded in mainstreaming key principles to limit the risks that would otherwise arise from the unrestricted and unconsidered use ...
Surveillance technology seen worsening U.S. eviction crisis
Firms are using the COVID-19 health emergency to target products to property managers, tenants say
14 tech trends to watch in 2021
2020 was a more eventful year than anyone could have imagined. What will the next year hold? The Rest of World team picked top tech trends to watch out for in 2021.