Coded Bia News Today

Here are some films and TV episodes made in the last decade or so, dwelling upon AI, spanning genres — classic science fiction, dramas, comedies, thrillers, and documentaries — and most of these are streaming in India currently.

From historical novels that sound like the modern news cycle to contemporary works that take a twist toward the speculative, book critic Katherine Ouellette rounds up a selection of other-worldly tales to read this fall.

Most of us have an innate respect for code. Algorithms have proven to be more efficient than people at certain tasks, so we’ve come to revere the machine for its accuracy and neutrality. The trouble is, when we use an algorithm to make a prediction, we are not always aware of what calculations it made to reach its conclusion and what biases are built into it, and by putting our faith in algorithms we enable the systematic reinforcement of these biases. Data scientist Cathy O’Neil defines an...

‘THE RESEARCHER WHO TOOK ON BIG TECH AND WON’ – ‘Fast Company’ Story Title “10 BEST FILMS OF 2020” – The New York Times “Thought-provoking. ‘Coded Bias’ serves as both a wake-up call (to invasive practices the public doesn’t yet realize are being implemented) and a call to action.” – (Valerie Complex) VARIETY “CODED BIAS,” Shalini Kantayya’s feature documentary, premiered at the 2020Sundance Film Festival The film explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researche...