Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting — and the humans who outsmarted its systems: WP reports, Pedro Domingos, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington, said that artificial intelligence is much less sophisticated than many people believe, and Silicon Valley companies often portray their systems as more powerful than they actually are as they compete for business. In fact, even the most advanced artificial intelligence systems still are fooled in ways that a human would easily detect.
Amazing these sites don't add a 30-second, 60-second delay when someone posts live video - I have to believe this will happen soon.
Also, once again, the sunshine of California warps SV computer engineers from seeing the possibility that social media can and will be used for evil.
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