Accenture lays off thousands of employees: CEO Julie Sweet says we are "exiting" employees we can't ... - The Times of India
Tech News News: Accenture has reportedly laid off thousands of employees this year, citing their inability to be retrained in AI skills, as it reshapes its workforce
ScaleFactor Raised $100 Million In A Year Then Blamed Covid-19 For Its Demise. Employees Say It Had Much Bigger Problems.
Kurt Rathmann told his big-name investors he had developed groundbreaking AI to do the books for small businesses. In reality, humans did most of the work.
Las Vegas Cops Used ‘Unsuitable’ Facial Recognition Photos To Make Arrests
Records obtained by Motherboard show the police department used sub-par images in almost half of its facial recognition searches, increasing the chance of misidentifying suspects.
iTWire - How a Google search could end up endangering a life
A Google search summary of measures to be carried out after a seizure left out the words "do not", resulting in instructions that could well kill a person. Soft Linden, the director of informa...
MTA’s Initial Foray Into Facial Recognition at High Speed Is a Bust
First attempts last year to record and identify faces of drivers as they zip along the highway at the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge have failed, according to an internal Metropolitan Transportation Auth…
Facebook cracks down on discussing 'hoes' in gardening group
Facebook's censors are digging deep -- flagging the word "hoe" in a western New York gardening group because they apparently confused the tool for a disparaging term for women.
The student and the algorithm: how the exam results fiasco threatened one pupil’s future
The long read: Josiah Elleston-Burrell had done everything to make his dream of studying architecture a reality. But, suddenly, in the summer of 2020, he found his fate was no longer in his hands
Access Denied: Faulty Automated Background Checks Freeze Out Renters – The Markup
Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports. And almost nobody is watching
Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content
Duolingo Inc., the maker of language-learning software, is cutting some contractors while using generative artificial intelligence to create more content, the latest sign that companies are shifting some tasks typically handled by workers to AI tools.