ImageNet Roulette Shows How AI Stereotypes Humans While I have come across a lot ofAIand AI-related applications making a positive impact in the real world, I’m afraidImageNet Rouletteis certainly not one among them. Rather, it exposes the dark part of AI. The model is currently being showcased as part of the Training Humans exhibition by Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford at the Fondazione Prada Museum in Milan. “ImageNet Roulette is a provocation designed to help us see into the ways that humans are classified in machine learning systems....

Mercedes Flaunts the Vision Mercedes Simplex EV Concept Car at Frankfurt Motor Show Mercedes-Benz has shown off a concept car, a reminiscence of its historic almost 120-year old “Simplex” last week at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show. In case you’re not aware, Simplex is a series of luxury cars the brand produced from 1902 to 1909. “Only a brand that is as strong as Mercedes-Benz is capable of the physical symbiosis of history and future....

Researchers Propose Setting up a Space Elevator in the Moon Space exploration is undoubtedly a costly affair involving a lot of money, time, and efforts of a lot of scientists. One of the major factors adding up to the high costs is rockets and rocket fuel; that is exactly what a group of researchers wants to minimize with an innovative solution. The proposed concept of the researchers at Columbia University and Cambridge University is named Spaceline....

Security Researcher Wins Bug Bounty for Finding Instagram App Crash Bug Security researchers have been quite active in the past few months on discovering and reporting bugs found on Facebook-owned Instagram. In fact, a Chennai based techie won abug bountyfrom Instagramtwicefor reporting bugs. Earlier this week, another white-hat hacker has disclosed a bug in the photo-sharing platform that could have remotely crashed Instagram app of any Android user. The security researcher who goes by the name “valbrux”, had initially discovered that Instagram uses a“simple incremental PKID in its database to define user accounts”....

Tesla Model 3 Gets the 2019 IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK+ Award Tesla Model 3’s safety features have been put to test and it survived quite well. The most affordable electric car from the brand received the “Top Safety Pick+” award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). In case you’re not aware, IIHS is a nonprofit group funded by auto insurance companies that conduct tests to ensure the safety and durability of the cars out there....

These Clothes Can Fool Automated License Plate Readers Governments in various countries are getting smarter by installing surveillance cameras that have the capability to automatically read license plates of vehicles passing through the vicinity of the camera. While this feature is implemented to efficiently control traffic violations, it has raised privacy concerns among people that led a hacker to design a special kind of apparel to fool the cameras. Kate Rose, a hacker and designer, has an apparel store that goes by the name Adversarial Fashion....

This AI is Capable of Passing a 12th Grade Science Test Researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have come up with an AI that is capable of scoring more than 90 percent in eighth-grade multiple-choice science test and more than 80 percent in the 12th-grade science test. Dubbed Aristo, the AI was subject to the New York Regents Science Exam, which is a standardized test in New York. However, the AI was exempted from solving problems having diagrams in it....