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Chad Mills

Category - Industry Practices

Describing the types of work involved in making AI systems function, extending beyond AI itself to things like data collection and lexical resources which enable AI without being generally considered part of the field.

How does AI fight cybercrime?

On average, every Internet user has been the victim of multiple cybercrimes. It’s an enormous problem, and cybercriminals are rarely prosecuted. Artificial intelligence is the most important tool we have to fight cybercrime. The threats are always changing. Today we have Russian bots influencing US presidential elections, credit cards stolen in...

Worried someone is reading your email? Tradeoffs in using data to improve services

Big tech firms face intense scrutiny about how much data they collect and how they respect user privacy when using the data. Data drives much of the value of the services we use. There are important trade-offs involved in how companies can best provide valuable services while respecting privacy. Within artificial intelligence, the machine learning...

How Are Fake Accounts Stopped Before Being Reported?

Disclaimer: While I previously led a data science team at Facebook and led the AI efforts to identify fake and hacked accounts at Microsoft, I am not representing these companies and speak only for myself. Facebook’s Transparency Report reveals that Facebook takes down billions of fake accounts each quarter. In the first quarter of 2019, Facebook...

Making AI Algorithms Less Sexist

gender bias race

Artificial intelligence algorithms, which are based on statistics, make mistakes. Since they accomplish things that wouldn’t otherwise be possible, we tolerate these errors. Most people wouldn’t want a human being reviewing every email sent to Gmail to determine whether or not it’s spam. That would be pretty creepy. But even if having a perfect...

Google stifling free software? Quite the opposite.

free speech microphone

A recent blog post, Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software, made the front page of techmeme yesterday. The post raises important issues, though the message in the headline is wrong. The “Uncommon download” warning reported in that post presumably originates from Google’s Download Protection feature in Chrome. I don’t know Google’s internal...