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A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy

posted by takyon on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the extreme-algorithm dept.

MrPlow writes:

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The UK-based company ASI Data Science unveiled a machine learning algorithm Wednesday that can identify terrorist propaganda videos with 99 percent accuracy.

This development marks one of the first instances of a company successfully using A.I. to flag extremist propaganda. The Islamic State group is notorious for its social media recruiting efforts, and this algorithm could help curtail them.

While the researchers at ASI wouldn't discuss any technical specifics of the algorithm, it appears to work like other kinds of A.I. recognition software. The algorithm can examine any video and determine the probability that the video is a piece of extremist propaganda. According to the BBC, the algorithm was trained on thousands of hours of terrorist recruiting videos, and it uses characteristics from these videos to assign probability scores.

Source: https://www.inverse.com/article/41273-uk-company-creates-algorithm-to-flag-propaganda

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:48AM (1 child)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday February 15 2018, @01:48AM (#638008) Homepage Journal

    Saddam Hussein was a really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn’t read them the rights. They didn’t talk. They were terrorists. It was over. But George Bush, President Bush, was a very mixed up guy. He said that Saddam Hussein loved terrorists, that he helped terrorists. That was a lie, or a mistake. It wasn't a mistake to fight terrorism and fight it hard, and I guess maybe if I had to do it, I would have fought terrorism but not necessarily Iraq. It was a tremendous cost to this country. Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism. You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It’s like Harvard, OK? So sad.

    George Bush, not the smartest guy. But he was smart enough to become President twice, he was elected twice to that. Overwhelmingly. Not many people can say that. So I think he's smarter than a lot of people. Has cyber ever been elected President? Or even, like, you know, Mayor? Obviously, I'm being sarcastic. Our cyber is improving very quickly, but it's not smart enough to get elected. George Bush got elected, he didn't know who was a terrorist and who wasn't. How is cyber going to know?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:06AM (#638019)

    More like the Wharton of terrorism.