Author Archives: David B. Shrestha

22 Mar

ImageNet gets a Privacy Overhaul, what about other datasets?

Last week, ImageNet, one of the world’s most influential AI datasets, decided to blur the faces of people in its database in an effort to increase user privacy. In another part of the world, researchers at the University Erlangen-Nurnberg in Germany discovered that the X-ray datasets used by AI classification systems were not as anonymous…

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22 Mar

The Persistent Problem Of Cultural Discrimination In AI Datasets

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently conducted an NLP study on social biases present in Bollywood and Hollywood using their AI tool. Subtitles from 700 films were gathered for each industry and analysed, representing seven decades of cultural evolution. The AI tool was trained to complete sentences after learning from the subtitles and progressed to…

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22 Mar

The Persistent Problem Of Cultural Discrimination In AI Datasets

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently conducted an NLP study on social biases present in Bollywood and Hollywood using their AI tool. Subtitles from 700 films were gathered for each industry and analysed, representing seven decades of cultural evolution. The AI tool was trained to complete sentences after learning from the subtitles and progressed to…

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20 Mar

The Future Outlook Of Smart Cities in 2021

The first-ever ‘smart city,’ so to speak, was Amsterdam’s eponymously named digital city, De Digitale Stad (DDS). This was not so much a physical, liveable city as it was a cyberspace consisting of 300-odd citizens that could afford the Internet in 1994, launched with the local government’s support. Cisco fuelled the movement of actual urban…

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20 Mar

7 Free Resources To Start Your Cybersecurity Journey In 2021

Over the past decade, cybersecurity has become a key area of growth, with demand for professionals in the field being at an all-time high. This has been driven primarily in conjunction with the increase in cybercriminal activity, with reports claiming that the crimes have doubled in the past year alone.  To combat the issue, a…

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20 Mar

7 Free Resources To Start Your Cybersecurity Journey In 2021

Over the past decade, cybersecurity has become a key area of growth, with demand for professionals in the field being at an all-time high. This has been driven primarily in conjunction with the increase in cybercriminal activity, with reports claiming that the crimes have doubled in the past year alone.  To combat the issue, a…

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16 Mar

CBSE Partners With Intel To Launch AI Learning Platform

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has collaborated with Intel to launch an artificial intelligence learning community and platform called AI Students Community (AISC).  According to an official statement put out by the CBSE, the AISC has been set up to assist in creating a “digital-first mindset and support an AI-Ready Generation.” The platform…

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16 Mar

CBSE Partners With Intel To Launch AI Learning Platform

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has collaborated with Intel to launch an artificial intelligence learning community and platform called AI Students Community (AISC).  According to an official statement put out by the CBSE, the AISC has been set up to assist in creating a “digital-first mindset and support an AI-Ready Generation.” The platform…

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11 Mar

The Struggle For Data Privacy

In a recent blog post, Google revealed that while they remain committed to meeting their aim of eliminating third-party cookies by 2022, they do not wish to transition to user-level alternatives like universal identifiers, citing user data privacy concerns. Microsoft has also announced new privacy measures at their recent Ignite conference, including end-to-end encryptions on…

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08 Mar

Are Passwords Becoming A Thing Of The Past?

Throughout human history, passwords have been used from ‘watchwords’ in ancient Roman armies to the four-pin locks on our smartphones today. But as cyber security becomes an increasingly important concern, many experts point out that passwords may have outlived their usefulness.  The World Economic Forum found that cybercrime-related activities result in an estimated cost of…

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