Title: Reading Aloud to Your Kids Might Make Them Smarter
Category: Health News
Created: 5/31/2022 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 6/1/2022 12:00:00 AM
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Many cities are partnering with escooter providers to get cars out of their landscapes. But should we get behind this type of transport when they are massively underutilized by women? Research in Paris, for instance, found that 66% of dockless e-scooter riders were male. This week, Voi released a report on Shared escooters and gender equity. It reveals a significant disparity in the way men and women experience escooters — with the latter losing out. Written in partnership with Voi’s Gender Equity Commission, it raises a lot of big problems, but also, thankfully offers a way forward. Let’s take a…
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Title: High-Tech Pacemaker Reads Body Signals, Dissolves After Use
Category: Health News
Created: 5/27/2022 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/31/2022 12:00:00 AM
A man wading in a pool of his own consciousness, surrealistically draped in the hallucinations of an artificial intelligence, shouts at me about poetry. He contorts himself with passion as his rhetoric reaches its fever pitch — you might say he ‘peaks’ — and suddenly bursts into self-awareness like a phoenix, renewed. Finally, he shakes an iPhone at me, declaring it a monument to human ambition and actuation. After watching, I feel like I’m both a tiny worm on a big hook and the master of my own universe. These are some wonderfully weird videos. Describing Jason Silva’s latest project,…
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AI now guides numerous life-changing decisions, from assessing loan applications to determining prison sentences. Proponents of the approach argue that it can eliminate human prejudices, but critics warn that algorithms can amplify our biases — without even revealing how they reached the decision. This can result in AI systems leading to Black people being wrongfully arrested, or child services unfairly targeting poor families. The victims are frequently from groups that are already marginalized. Alejandro Saucedo, Chief Scientist at The Institute for Ethical AI and Engineering Director at ML startup Seldon, warns organizations to think carefully before deploying algorithms. He told…
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