Category: Technology
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Pluriversality in AI development
From its beginning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been developed based on optimistic and almost unreflective points of view. Probably, this fact has allowed the incredible results that we see nowadays, after approximately 70 years of its inception. Between the 50s and 60s, the AI field went from complete scepticism about what machines could do to…
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Gender Shades
Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification Article Review The paper written by Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru analyses the accuracy of commercial face-based gender classification systems, with a focus on intersections of race and gender. The study evaluated 3 commercial gender classification algorithms by IBM, Microsoft, and Face++ with a dataset that the researchers previously tagged manually.…
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Feminist Design Tool
Defensible decision making for interaction design and AI This tool was created by Feminist Internet and Josie Young (see the license). I found it useful, so I reproduced it below. Also, I translated it into Spanish here. The aim of the Feminist Design Tool is to deepen how you think about the values you will…
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The ethics behind wind power systems
In Colombia, renewable energy technologies are recently implemented. Although wind energy’s execution started more than 20 years ago in industrialized countries, here is part of a new scene in which public and private entities’ efforts are directed towards energy transition. On paper, only 0.1% of the energy transformed in the country comes from one wind…
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Bitcoin is not the money for all
A few years after its launch on the internet, Bitcoin became the preferred “solution” to poverty in many blog posts, YouTube videos, and other web content. Bitcoin has two main characteristics that give it relevance in today’s world; the first, that it is finite, so it does not lose value over time but quite the…