Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have all been criticized for allowing humans to listen to users’ private conversations in order to test their AI products for quality. Is it truly necessary or is it just easier and cheaper to develop that way?
Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang
Samsung unveils a new smartphone camera sensor that offers up to 108 megapixels of resolution. The US Navy announced it will revert destroyers from touchscreens to mechanical throttle and helm control system over the next 18-24 months, DARPA showed off an open-source secure voting machine with chips designed as open hardware with no proprietary components.
Samsung made a 108 megapixel camera sensor for phones, Facebook reportedly halted acquisitions talks with Houseparty over regulatory concerns, and DSLRs are vulnerable to ransomware.
Chris Ashley from the SMR Podcast chats with Tom about Amazon’s cooperation with Police on promoting Ring doorbell video sharing, how that might feed into Amazon’s imperfect Recognition facial recognition system and what we need to do to make this work better for all of us.