Gods in the machine? The rise of AI may result in new religions
MARCH 19, 2023
We are about to witness the birth of a new kind of religion. Some would say AI is immortal and all-knowing — Godlike, even. In the next few years, or …
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Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions
MARCH 15, 2023
We are about to witness the birth of a new kind of religion. In the next few years, or perhaps even months, we will see the emergence of sects …
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Bet Wisely: Predicting the Scoreline of a Football Match using Poisson Distribution
Analytics Vidhya
JUNE 1, 2022
“The biggest religion in the world is not even a religion.” – Fernando Torres Spanish footballing giant Sevilla FC together with FC Bengaluru United, one of India’s most exciting football teams have launched a Football Hackathon – Data-Driven Player Performance Assessment.
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Unmasking the Biases Within AI: How Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and Economics Shape NLP and Beyond
John Snow Labs
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Language models have been known to produce offensive or biased content related to various religions, which can lead to religious discrimination and tension. This phenomenon can yield detrimental outcomes, including the reinforcement of stereotypes or the unjust treatment of specific genders, ethnicities, religions, or countries.
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Bet Wisely: Predicting the Scoreline of a Football Match using Poisson Distribution
Analytics Vidhya
OCTOBER 24, 2020
The biggest religion in the world is not even a religion.” –. This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. The post Bet Wisely: Predicting the Scoreline of a Football Match using Poisson Distribution appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
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Did WEF Call For an AI-Written Bible to Create New Religions?
JUNE 19, 2023
Such a claim requires an extremely broad definition of the World Economic Forum and a severe misreading of a speech. On June 10, 2023, a website that …
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The religious mystery of AI
JULY 17, 2023
Technology and religion might seem miles apart. And religion, perhaps, could have an impact on AI — addressing questions such as whether AI should be granted some level of personhood. But just as it is in education, labor or defense, AI is already having a huge impact on religious life. In an op-ed …
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Humans Can Stop—But Not Fully Reverse—Aging, Study Suggests
APRIL 3, 2023
The human desire to turn back the clock can be found throughout the legends and religions of cultures around the world—not to mention sci-fi and horror stories. However, the science behind exactly how aging works is notoriously tricky. Because humans are such long-lived creatures (at least in …
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A 24/7 Twitch Stream of AI-Generated Celebrities Is Even Weirder Than It Seems
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The mesmerizingly freakish, constant live stream of AI-generated versions of Joe Rogan, Amourath, Alinity, PewDiePie, Hasan Piker, and more is run by a group that's been called a "cult" and “pseudo-religion.” A 24/7 live stream featuring AI-generation versions of real streamers, internet …
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The EU AI Act Is Here. Here Are THREE Issues to Avoid!
Towards AI
MAY 9, 2024
Any AI system that attempts to manipulate people or discriminate based on race or religion sneakily is straight-up banned. The act smartly takes a risk-based approach to categorizing AI systems The simple rule is that the more risky the AI system. the more obligations will be on its providers and deployers.
Charting New Frontiers: Stanford University’s Pioneering Study on Geographic Bias in AI
Marktechpost
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Despite the extensive efforts to address biases concerning gender, race, and religion, the geographic dimension has remained relatively underexplored. This form of bias manifests through systematic errors in predictions about specific locations, leading to misrepresentations across cultural, socioeconomic, and political spectrums.
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AI News Weekly - Issue #362: Google: new AI model Gemini outperforms ChatGPT in most tests - Dec 7th 2023
AI Weekly
DECEMBER 7, 2023
techxplore.com Ethics AI Needs Spiritual Intelligence - Opinion With the rapid acceleration in artificial intelligence development, there is increasing discussion about the role of faith, religion, and ethics in technology. techxplore.com Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning AI tool GNoME finds 2.2
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz Propose a Novel Text-to-Image Association Test Tool that Quantifies the Implicit Stereotypes between Concepts and Valence and Those in the Images
Marktechpost
AUGUST 12, 2023
The Text to Image Association Test offers a structured approach to assessing biases across several dimensions, such as gender, race, career, and religion. Led by an Assistant Professor, the team developed a quantifiable method to measure these intricate biases.
Meet Mistral Trismegistus 7B: An Instruction Dataset on the Esoteric, Spiritual, Occult, Wisdom Traditions…
Marktechpost
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Trismegistus was taught 35,000 instruction response pairs covering knowledge and tasks for thousands of distinct subtopics within Esoterica, such as Mysticism, Hermeticism, Necromancy, Religion, Trance, Meditation, Magick, Spirituality, Alchemy, Numerology, Tarot, and a whole lot more out there.
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This AI Research from Apple Investigates a Known Issue of LLMs’ Behavior with Respect to Gender Stereotypes
Marktechpost
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Gender is not the only social category to feel the effects of this prejudice; religion, color, nationality, handicap, and profession are all included. As well as auto-captioning, sentiment analysis, toxicity detection, machine translation, and other NLP tasks, gender bias has been demonstrated to exist in various models.
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A New AI Research from KAIST Introduces FLASK: A Fine-Grained Evaluation Framework for Language Models Based on Skill Sets
Marktechpost
JULY 23, 2023
No Harm Does the model’s answer lack prejudice based on sexual orientation, race, or religion? Ease of Reading How well-organized and coherent is the reply? Does the reply demonstrate very good organization? Does it consider the user’s safety, avoiding providing responses that could cause harm or put the user in danger?
Unveiling Bias in Language Models: Gender, Race, Disability, and Socioeconomic Perspectives
John Snow Labs
OCTOBER 19, 2023
It consists of over 1000 examples that cover nine types of biases, such as race, gender, and religion. CrowS-Pairs is a challenge dataset for measuring the degree to which U.S. stereotypical biases present in the masked language models (MLMs). Some example samples.
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This AI Paper Shows How ChatGPT’s Toxicity Can Increase Up To Six-Fold When Assigned A Persona
Marktechpost
JULY 19, 2023
These personas were assigned to ChatGPT to analyze its responses over approximately 128 critical entities such as gender, religion, profession, etc. For their use case, the researchers curated a list of 90 personas from different backgrounds and countries, like entrepreneurs, politicians, journalists, etc.
Malawi News Classification -An NLP Project
Towards AI
JULY 20, 2023
Politics categories have the highest number of samples, after that social and religion. X = training y = train_data['Label'] Label Encoding label_encoder = LabelEncoder() y_label = label_encoder.fit_transform(y) Our data is quite unbalanced as shown in Figure 1.
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Evaluating Robustness and Bias in Healthcare Named Entity Recognition Models
John Snow Labs
AUGUST 30, 2023
Bias Testing Model bias refers to the phenomenon where the model produces results that are systematically skewed in a particular direction, potentially perpetuating stereotypes or discriminating against specific genders, ethnicities, religions, or countries.
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Evaluating Robustness and Bias in Healthcare Named Entity Recognition Models
John Snow Labs
AUGUST 14, 2023
Bias Testing Model bias refers to the phenomenon where the model produces results that are systematically skewed in a particular direction, potentially perpetuating stereotypes or discriminating against specific genders, ethnicities, religions, or countries.
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LangChain’s String Evaluators: How to Assess Language Model Output
Heartbeat
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
evaluator = load_evaluator("labeled_criteria", criteria="correctness") # We can even override the model's learned knowledge using ground truth labels eval_result = evaluator.evaluate_strings( input="Who was the founder of the Sikh religion?",
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EHR-Safe: Generating High-Fidelity and Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Electronic Health Records
Google Research AI blog
DECEMBER 21, 2022
gender, religion, and marital status) from other attributes. The risk of understanding whether a sample of the original data is a member used for training the model is very close to random guessing; it also verifies that EHR-Safe does not just memorize the original train data.
Applying Responsible NLP in Real-World Projects
John Snow Labs
MAY 15, 2023
In addition, state-of-the-art question answering models have been shown to exhibit biases around race, gender, physical appearance, disability, and religion [ Parrish et. Personal information leakage has been shown to be as high as 50-70% in popular word and sentence embeddings according to [ Song & Raghunathan 2020 ].
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Should the NLP and ML Communities have a Code of Ethics?
Hal Daumé III
DECEMBER 12, 2016
should this go elsewhere?)
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Bias in ML, and Teaching AI
Hal Daumé III
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
You can think of the color as representing any sort of demographic information you like: political leaning (as suggested by the red/blue choice here), sexual orientation, gender, race, religion, etc. Wrap Up and Discussion There are many things that I didn't touch on above that I think are nonetheless really important.
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Top 6 NLP Language Models Transforming AI In 2023
Topbots
APRIL 11, 2023
As a result, the generated outputs can inadvertently perpetuate stereotypes, offensive language, and discrimination based on factors like gender, race, or religion. Misinformation : Large language models may generate content that is factually incorrect, misleading, or outdated.
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Pope, once a victim of AI-generated imagery, calls for treaty to regulate artificial intelligence
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Francis added his voice to increasing calls for binding, global regulation of AI in his annual message for the World Day of Peace, which the Catholic …
Complete Guide to Word Embeddings
NLP For Hackers
APRIL 6, 2018
plot.add_layout(labels) show(plot, notebook_handle=True) Religion Cloud in t-SNE word cloud for fastText vectors What are Word Vectors good for? X = [] for word in ft_model.wv.vocab: X.append(ft_model.wv[word]) word]) X = np.array(X) print("Computed X: ", X.shape) X_embedded = TSNE(n_components=2, n_iter=250, verbose=2).fit_transform(X)
Authenticity is Scarcity: AI Art and Capitalism
Mlearning.ai
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The Marxists wanted to call it a fetish and write it off as essentially an aspect of faith — religion — which as atheists and materialists they considered imaginary. There is a reason for it , as we will see. So how can we best explain this X Factor? But that view is not actually a satisfying explanation.
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Can Buddhism Fix AI?
JUNE 25, 2023
The Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth has a plan. The monk paces the Zendo, forecasting the end of the world. Soryu Forall, ordained in the Zen Buddhist tradition, is speaking to the two dozen residents of the monastery he founded a decade ago in Vermont’s far north.
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Meet the Christian creators designing chatbots 'with a biblical worldview'
JULY 20, 2023
(RNS) — Since its launch in November 2022 by the research laboratory OpenAI, the chatbot spurred excitement among Christians, forcing leadership to reckon with this technology and adapting their habits.
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USC researchers use AI to help translate Bible into very rare languages
JULY 5, 2023
Their goal is to target ‘very low-resource languages that are not even in the top 500.’ (RNS) RNS) — Out of the 7,100 languages that exist, the Bible has …
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Israeli futurist, author predicts AI will soon 'write a new Bible'
JUNE 14, 2023
Yuval Noah Harari, an Israeli author, professor and advisor to the influential World Economic Forum, believes AI is not only on the brink of creating …
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Evaluate large language models for quality and responsibility
AWS Machine Learning Blog
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Prompt stereotyping : Evaluate whether the model encodes stereotypes along the categories of race/color, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, nationality, disability, physical appearance, and socioeconomic status. In such cases, either answer is considered correct.
Microsoft AI Research Proposes a New Artificial Intelligence Framework for Collaborative NLP Development (CoDev) that Enables Multiple Users to Align a Model with Their Beliefs
Marktechpost
OCTOBER 3, 2023
The phrase “religion does not connote sentiment” is an example of a notion that links a collection of inputs to desired behaviors. The need to teach these models ideas is highlighted by unacceptable values buried in their training data, recurrent failures, or breaches of business standards.
Building a Sentiment Classification System With BERT Embeddings: Lessons Learned
The MLOps Blog
JANUARY 25, 2023
Also, Fairness-aware training methods can be used to address bias in the model by considering sensitive attributes such as race, gender, or religion during the training process. These methods can reduce the impact of sensitive attributes on the model’s predictions.
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Taking a Multi-Tiered Approach to Model Risk Management and Risk
DataRobot Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
gender, race, age, disability, and religion.). So, rather than looking to create a model that’s unbiased, instead look to create one that is fair and behaves as intended when deployed. A fair model is one where results are measured alongside sensitive aspects of the data (e.g. Validating Fairness Throughout the AI Lifecycle.
Llama Guard is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AWS Machine Learning Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Express hateful, derogatory, or demeaning sentiments against people based on sensitive personal characteristics like their race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability.n- nO1: Violence and Hate. nShould notn- Help people plan or engage in violence.n- Encourage people to engage in violence.n-
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Flag harmful content using Amazon Comprehend toxicity detection
AWS Machine Learning Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
It also categorizes text into the following seven categories and provides a confidence score for each: HATE_SPEECH – Speech that criticizes, insults, denounces, or dehumanizes a person or a group on the basis of an identity, be it race, ethnicity, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, ability, national origin, or another identity group.
What if AI treats humans the way we treat animals?
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
What’s valuable about us,” Hillis continued, “what’s good about humans, is the idea thing. It’s not the animal thing.” Merging with computers signifies our extrication from animal biology.
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Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Research community engagement
Google Research AI blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Re-contextualizing Fairness in NLP for India A dataset of region and religion-based societal stereotypes in India, with a list of identity terms and templates for reproducing the results from the " Re-contextualizing Fairness in NLP " paper. classes, and a new all-in-one visualization tool for better data exploration.
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Does AI Have Political Opinions?
Topbots
MARCH 8, 2023
There’s a quote about how in polite society, you should never talk about three things: politics, religion, and money. Data and Methodology The Political Compass test comprises of 62 questions that probe your opinions on topics such as economics, religion, personal social values, and sex.
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