Whenever there is a talk of infusing technology, automation and intelligence in to tasks or processes, the solutions proposed fall in to two broad buckets. The first is the conventional use of the term Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and cognitive learning, which typically work outside human intervention and are largely driven…
Category: Big Data
Content Moderation and Social Media
Whats the problem! Image Credit: Adweek All content platforms and social media companies must keep the content flowing because that is the business model: Content captures attention, provides viewership and generates data (users’ statistics). Content is the starting and the end point of consumers’ journeys on social media. A video, an information post, a…
Social Media and managing content!
This article offers a critical view of how content available on the internet quintessentially shapes public opinions and provides an unique challenge to governments around the world. Introduction The Social media today has a very different impact potential than it used to 10 years ago. Today the social media is capable of influencing country-wide elections,…
Big Tech, content moderation and regulations – Three way road!
Big Tech controls lives yet has difficulty controlling what it hosts! Introduction When Mark Zuckerberg wrote the oped in WAPO in March 2019 asking for government and regulators to step in more aggressively to police the internet, he may have elaborated what many insiders feel regarding governing internet, and specifically what content is uploaded…
A look at how the Big Tech is building their own Infrastructure!
Big Tech companies and investment in Cable Network Infrastructure Introduction According to some the vast expanse of Internet infrastructure is really just a spaghetti-work of really long wires spread everywhere. While most of the humans now largely experience the internet through Wi-Fi and phone data, the connectivity itself is provided by systems carrying the…
Removing Bias in Artificial Intelligence: Mission Impossible!
The impact of Bias in Artificial Intelligence! Originally Published April 21, 2018 Artificial Intelligence is broadly referred to as any source, channel, device or usage application whereby tasks normally attributed to human intelligence, such as reasoning, interpretation, storage and processing of information, ability to analyze historical information and ultimately, decision making is reproduced outside…
How Big is Big Data?
How Big is Big Data? Originally published April 20, 2018 Introduction When an user visits an internet page, or sends an email, or uploads a picture somewhere, or provides his / her phone number to coffee shop, or swipes credit card at a store, or visits a bank to make deposit or withdraw money…