Robert Z Mahari

Aug 15, 2024 | technologyreview.es | Robert Z Mahari

La preocupación por la IA hace demasiado hincapié en los daños derivados de la subversión y no de la seducción. La preocupación por la IA a menudo imagina escenarios catastróficos en los que los sistemas escapan al control humano o incluso a su comprensión.

Aug 5, 2024 | flipboard.com | Robert Z Mahari

Technology2 hours agoYour closet is already full of clothes. Can these AI-powered startups help you wear them more often? Fast Company - BY Claire Zhao • 2hFashion apps are using AI to help people fall back in love with the clothes they already own. It’s no secret that the fashion industry has an overconsumption problem.

May 13, 2024 | nature.com | Alex Berke |Robert Z Mahari |Takahiro Yabe |Sandy Pentland |Dan Calacci |Kent Larson

This is a first-of-its-kind dataset containing detailed purchase histories from 5027 U.S. Amazon.com consumers, spanning 2018 through 2022, with more than 1.8 million purchases. Consumer spending data are customarily collected through government surveys to produce public datasets and statistics, which serve public agencies and researchers. Companies now collect similar data through consumers’ use of digital platforms at rates superseding data collection by public agencies. We published this dataset in an effort towards democratizing access to rich data sources routinely used by companies. The data were crowdsourced through an online survey and shared with participants’ informed consent. Data columns include order date, product code, title, price, quantity, and shipping address state. Each purchase history is linked to survey data with information about participants’ demographics, lifestyle, and health. We validate the dataset by showing expenditure correlates with public Amazon sales data (Pearson r = 0.978, p < 0.001) and conduct analyses of specific product categories, demonstrating expected seasonal trends and strong relationships to other public datasets.

Oct 27, 2023 | media.mit.edu | Robert Z Mahari

A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation. The race to train language models on vast, diverse, and inconsistently documented datasets has raised pressing concerns about the legal and ethical risks for practitioners, and the models they train.

Jun 27, 2023 | fastcompany.com | Robert Z Mahari

In 2022, an AI-generated work of art won the Colorado State Fair’s art competition. The artist, Jason Allen, had used Midjourney—a generative AI system trained on art scraped from the internet—to create the piece. The process was far from fully automated: Allen went through some 900 iterations over 80 hours to create and refine his submission.