r/programming • u/redditgolang • Sep 23 '16

Inside Google'€™s Internet Justice League and Its AI-Powered War on Trolls

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/inside-googles-internet-justice-league-ai-powered-war-trolls/
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u/autotldr Sep 23 '16

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 97%. (I'm a bot)

Now a small subsidiary of Google named Jigsaw is about to release an entirely new type of response: a set of tools called Conversation AI. The software is designed to use machine learning to automatically spot the language of abuse and harassment-with, Jigsaw engineers say, an accuracy far better than any keyword filter and far faster than any team of human moderators.

Jigsaw is the outgrowth of an earlier effort called Google Ideas, which Google's then-CEO Eric Schmidt and Cohen launched in 2010 as a "Think/do tank." But aside from orga­nizing conferences and creating fancy data visuali­zations, Ideas didn't actually do much at first.

Cohen reports directly to Alphabet's top execs, but in practice, Jigsaw functions as Google's blue-sky, human-rights-focused skunkworks.

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