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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
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:30PM (1 child)
And what if they talk about how Allah comes in a black helicopter to take the guns away from the Queen because he needs them to kill the infidel whitey, while the protestant ZOG controls all the virgins who want to have sex with potato crackers? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Touché) by ewk on Thursday February 15 2018, @02:43PM
Then praise Brian, because Monty Python has reunited :-D
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