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Hwang: GDPR introduces a potential right to explanation for automated decisions
“So, one of the most interesting aspects of the GDPR, which is a new privacy regulation in Europe, is the potential for this, what they call kind of a right to explanation. So the idea is, for certain kinds of automated decision making, it might be so significa…”
Tim Hwang Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 18:40 At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
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Hwang: Google DeepDream's barbell representation always included human arms
“It turns out that when you ask it to see, like, ask it to reveal what, like, it thinks a barbell looks like, you know, barbells always show up with human arms attached to them.”
Tim Hwang Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 4:48 At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
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Hwang: Minor adversarial pixel edits fool machine vision but not humans
“Adversarial examples lead to these really fascinating results where, you know, you can take a picture of a panda, and that's a classic example, and you edit a couple of the pixels, and it, like, basically, like, the computer will be like, yep, that's definitel…”
Tim Hwang Jun 16, 2017 ▶ 5:41 At the Intersection of AI, Governments, and Google - Tim Hwang · Y Combinator
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