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The need for accuracy makes for painstaking work, but Forrest, who makes a few centers per picture, enjoys it. “It’s like why some adults color,” she says. “It’s become a relaxing task.” Those millions of annotate photos help an AI identify patterns that help it understand, say, what a human looks like. Eventually the AI grows smart enough to draw boxes around pedestrians. People like Forrest will help double-check the AI's work. Over time, AI will grow smart enough to reliably identify, say, kangaroos. Relying on an army of amateurs might seem odd, but it remains the most efficient way of training AI.

Mighty AI and the Human Army Using Phones to Teach AI to Drive | WIRED

But these AI systems also make decisions for reasons we may never understand. That’s why researchers, consumer rights lawyers, and policy makers have begun to voice concern that unintentional or intentional bias in machine-­learning systems could give rise to patterns of algorithmic discrimination with causes that may be difficult to identify. This isn’t theoretical: studies have already found evidence of bias in online advertising, recruiting, and pricing, all driven by presumably neutral algorithms.

Artificial Intolerance - MIT Technology Review

Looking for a new job is getting easier. Google today launched a new jobs search feature right on its search result pages that lets you search for jobs across virtually all of the major online job boards like LinkedIn, Monster, WayUp, DirectEmployers, CareerBuilder and Facebook and others. Google will also include job listings its finds on a company’s homepage. The idea here is to give job seekers an easy way to see which jobs are available without having to go to multiple sites only to find duplicate postings and lots of irrelevant jobs. With this new feature, is now available in English on desktop and mobile, all you have to type in is a query like “jobs near me,” “writing jobs” or something along those lines and the search result page will show you the new job search widget that lets you see a broad range of jobs.

Google launches its AI-powered jobs search engine | TechCrunch

Now, Google has developed an AI that is capable of learning almost as quickly as a human being. Claims of this advancement in speed come from Google’s DeepMind subsidiary in London. They say that not only can their machine assimilate and act on new experiences much more quickly than previous AI models, it will soon reach human-level speeds. Their method mimics the processes of learning that occur in human and animal brains. If you’re unfamiliar with how deep learning works, it uses layers of neural networks to locate trends or patterns in data. If one layer identifies a pattern, that information will be sent to the next layer. This process continues until all the information is collected.

Google Created an AI That Can Learn Almost as Fast as a Human