Stephen Downes

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Recent Posts

A neural network can learn to organize the world it sees into concepts—just like we do
China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns.
The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police
An AI hiring firm says it can predict job hopping based on your interviews
AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything”
This could lead to the next big breakthrough in common sense AI
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says
This is the Stanford vaccine algorithm that left out frontline doctors
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation
The Facebook whistleblower says its algorithms are dangerous. Here’s why.