You had one boob job: Three retrospective studies compared AI systems with the clinical decisions of the original radiologist, including 79,910 women, of whom 1878 had screen detected cancer or interval cancer within 12 months of screening. Thirty four (94%) of 36 AI systems evaluated in these studies were less accurate than a single radiologist, and all were less accurate than consensus of two or more radiologists.
From 2020 – Artificial Intelligence Makes Bad Medicine Even Worse
WSJ- How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated
In mid-March, Mark Zuckerberg used his Facebook page to announce a goal that was both ambitious and personal. He wanted his company to use its formidable resources to push 50 million people toward Covid-19 vaccines. In a post and a press release, the chief executive discussed Facebook Inc.’s initiatives to promote vaccines. He unveiled collaborations with global health organizations. And he touted that his company had “already connected more than 2 billion people to authoritative Covid-19 information.”
but
Despite Mr. Zuckerberg’s effort, a cadre of antivaccine activists flooded the network with what Facebook calls “barrier to vaccination” content, the memos show. They used Facebook’s own tools to sow doubt about the severity of the pandemic’s threat and the safety of authorities’ main weapon to combat it.
There’s always a way for people to have the conversations they want to have.
Has anyone heard of the “Root Beer Float” crisis? And in case you missed it all of our moral and intellectual superiors have been freaking out this week because of a Niki Minaj tweet about her cousins friends swollen balls.
Somebody give me a beat…
From the people who banned Parler.
One of the Islamic State group’s propaganda arms, which celebrated a Kabul airport bombing that killed 13 American service members, uses a website and app hosted by Amazon Web Services.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a preliminary evaluation into Tesla Autopilot systems and the ways this driver assistance technology works to “monitor, assist, and enforce the driver’s engagement with driving while Autopilot is in use.”
The reason for the preliminary evaluation is so that the agency can better understand the causes of 11 Tesla crashes that have happened since the start of 2018, a NHTSA spokesperson told Car and Driver in a statement. Seventeen injuries and one death are part of these 11 incidents. More Tesla crashes in which Autopilot was said to factor have happened, of course, but these are the 11 that NHTSA will look into to determine what the agency’s next steps should be regarding Tesla’s technology.
This subset of Tesla Autopilot crashes is important to NHTSA because they all involved cases where first responders were active, the agency said, “including some that crashed directly into the vehicles of first responders.” NHTSA told C/D that it confirmed that in all of these cases, the Tesla vehicles in question either had Autopilot or Traffic Aware Cruise Control engaged just prior to the crashes. Most of the incidents also happened after dark, the agency said, and “the crash scenes encountered included scene control measures such as first responder vehicle lights, flares, an illuminated arrow board, and road cones.”
h/t Raymond
Taliban: the West Has No Grounds to Discuss Freedom of Speech When Facebook Censors People
Some good info in both these videos.
The offending video Rand mentions above.
As the number of people getting spanked by Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for posting items that liberals don’t like continues to grow, its unlikely that the motivation has to do with striving for commercial success. What successful business plan aims to drive away customers?
In the name of combating hate speech, violence, conspiracy theory, etc., Internet platforms are removing not just advocacy, but knowledge, in a wide-ranging effort that may help the companies create a more frictionless, commercially successful product, but will impede the past from chastening the present. If the aim is preventing the spread of hateful ideas, nothing could be more counter-productive that cleaning away the record of their real-world impact.
Hey @elonmusk you might want to have your team look into the moon tricking the autopilot system. The car thinks the moon is a yellow traffic light and wanted to keep slowing down.
h/t Chris
Be nice.
You’ll like being Chinese. Really you will.
Twitter posts are “undermining Canada’s democracy,” said Canada’s Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault in a briefing note, who is urging regulation of hurtful comments for “a truly democratic debate.”
Cabinet on June 23 introduced Bill C-36 An Act To Amend The Criminal Code that threatens Facebook, Twitter and YouTube users suspected of posting content that promotes “detestation or vilification” with house arrest or $70,000 fines. The heritage department promised public consultation on the bill, according to Blacklock’s.
“This content steals and damages lives,” wrote staff. “It intimidates and obscures valuable voices, preventing a truly democratic debate.”
“Our objective is to ensure more accountability and transparency from online platforms while respecting the Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms,” said the June 16 briefing note Regulation Of Social Media Platforms. “The mandate of the Department of Canadian Heritage includes the promotion of a greater understanding of human rights.”
Related: Psaki on de-platforming American citizens: “You shouldn’t be banned from one platform and not others if you providing ‘misinformation’ out there.”
Take a look at people who think they are smart, where Jack Dorsey in the tradition of computer science entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg, also dropped out of college before receiving his degree. Apparently, these guys were all so involved in coding, they never bothered to listen in history class. I warned before, they may have thought they were the golden boys of the Democrats for taking down Trump. That kind of power in the hands of anyone outside of Washington is just NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Biden’s new executive order was signed on Friday before these fools could realize, that they are no longer needed. Biden signed a new executive order to crack down on Big Tech, under the name of capitalism to boost competition across the board. Biden signed this new executive order aimed at cracking down on anti-competitive practices in Big Tech, labor, and numerous other sectors. There are 72 actions and recommendations that involve a dozen federal agencies, that are intended to reshape the thinking around corporate consolidation and antitrust laws.
How the sausage gets made at the fake information site Wikipedia.
There’s more than one way to skin the First Amendment: Public/Private Censorship
The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that federal law does not grant Facebook immunity against lawsuits for users who use its platform to lure minors into sex trafficking.
Three plaintiffs filed separate suits against Facebook alleging that they became victims of sex trafficking after meeting their abusers through Facebook or Instagram, which Facebook owns. In addition to several negligence claims, the plaintiffs asserted claims under a Texas statute that allows civil lawsuits “against those who intentionally or knowingly benefit from participation in a sex-trafficking venture.”
Facebook moved to dismiss all claims against it contending that they were barred by section 230 of the “Communications Decency Act,” which protects interactive computer service providers such as Facebook from being held liable for any information provided by its users.
However, the Texas Supreme Court denied Facebook’s motion saying that section 230 does not “create a lawless no-man’s-land on the Internet.” The court further explained that section 230 protects internet platforms from being held accountable for their users’ words or actions, but “[h]olding internet platforms accountable for their own misdeeds is quite another thing.” Thus, the court held that section 230 did not bar the plaintiffs’ statutory claims against Facebook.
More discussion with Viva Frei and Barnes Law.
Weinstein and Heying take the DarkHorse podcast to a new platform, “odysee” which apparently runs on blockchain protocol that may very well be un-censorable.
I have yet to be able to get the video to embed properly in wordpress but you can see it here.
YouTube has been going after content on ivermectin as well as other things. People are beginning to notice. Weinstein started a campaign to highlight the censorship and it’s been getting friction on Twitter. Eventually that did change but its an uphill battle.
Have a look at YouTube’s COVID-19 medical misinformation policy for a long list of what’s Verboten. Under the rubric of “misinformation” they are censoring actual information from actual doctors and scientists, and real studies a lot of which have been peer reviewed.
Smells like there’s a purge coming.
His free speech views faded when they became a threat, rather than a boon, to his bottom line. Now, rather than being seen the way he wants to be, as an open-minded entrepreneur and even a potential presidential candidate, Zuckerberg finally stands exposed as a leading member of the new techno-aristocracy manipulating the world and shaping our society to fit their own world view, while getting ever richer in the process.
Microsoft says it blocked Tiananmen Square searches outside China due to ‘error’
