Author: Kalev Leetaru
Will Increasing Government Censorship Lead To A Fragmented Web?
As governments across the world increasingly seek to extend their reach to control what is said and seen online, the…
The EU Is Pushing The Web Towards Global Censorship Benefiting The World's Dictators
As the EU leans towards expanding its censorship globally, it is providing a blueprint for the repressive regimes of the…
FiveThirtyEight: Which 2020 Candidate Was Mentioned Most On Cable News Last Week?
FiveThirtyEight's latest analysis of the 2020 Democratic field by Dhrumil Mehta shows Biden's continuing lead but also Buttigieg's rise. Read…
Using Google's Video AI To Estimate The Average Shot Length In Television News
How long does a typical “shot” last on television news? Using the “Shot Change” detection feature of Google’s Video AI…
Crowdsourcing Web Imagery Through AI To Understand Television News
Google’s Web Entities feature offers a powerful new lens through which to understand the visual realm of television news through…
Using Google Vision API's Reverse Image Search To Find Television News Images On The Web
Using Google’s reverse image search, how much overlap is there between a week of television news and the open Web?…
Full Measure With Sharyl Attkisson: Deep Fakes
Kalev appeared on Full Measure With Sharyl Attkisson today to discuss the emerging threat of "deep fakes." Watch The Video.
Using Google Vision AI's Reverse Image Search To Richly Catalog Television News
While deep learning is most commonly used to directly label images, Google’s reverse image search capability adds a powerful new…
Using AI To Catalog The Visual Narratives Of A Week Of Television News
What visual narratives, objects and activities does AI see when it watches a week of television news? Read The Full…
In Facebook's Own Words This Week 'There Is No Privacy' On Its Platform
Just hours before Zuckerberg reassured investors about Facebook’s commitment to privacy, his own lawyers argued in court that “there is…
Google's New 'AI Workshop' Offers Early Access To The Frontier Of AI Research
Google’s new AI Workshop represents a unique new step in Google’s efforts to democratize access to AI, opening up broader…
The Future Of The Cloud Lies In Analyzing All Those Petabytes
The cloud has upended how we think about data. Simply storing petascale data is no longer a limiting factor. It…
Measuring Our 'Not Normal' and 'Divisive' Times
It seems not a day goes by in the Trump Era without the media mentioning that we live in a…
Did President Trump Help Popularize The Phrase 'Tweet Storm'?
Where did the phrase "tweet storm" come from and why is the concept so uniquely associated with Twitter? Read The…
Cloud AI Isn't About Outsourcing Compute It Is About Joining The Front Row Of The AI Revolution
Deep learning in the cloud today is no longer merely about outsourcing compute, but actually joining the front row of…
600 Forbes Columns And Counting
Today Kalev published his 600th Forbes column, just 41 days after publishing his 500th column! In the just over three…
Facebook Is Already Working Towards Germany's End-to-End Encryption Backdoor Vision
It is almost a certainty that the days of being able to securely converse through end-to-end encryption are coming to…
Google's AutoML And BigQuery ML: The Rise Of One-Click Hyperscale Machine Learning
The cloud is no longer just a place where AI experts go to pioneer the future or scarce deep learning…
FiveThirtyEight: Which 2020 Candidate Was Mentioned Most On Cable News Last Week?
FiveThirtyEight's latest analysis of the 2020 Democratic field by Dhrumil Mehta shows Biden's continuing lead but also Buttigieg's rise. Read…
Are Social Media Platforms Engaging In Legal Cyberwarfare?
How does cyber attribution work in a world where private companies are increasingly engaging in the kinds of activities once…
Online Toxicity Is As Old As The Web Itself But The Return To Communities May Help
A closer look back at the early days of the Web reminds us that online toxicity is as old as…
Could 'Government By Code' Eliminate Special Interests And Restore Democracy?
What might happen if our legal systems were codified into software algorithms that were immune from bribes and personal friendships,…
Are We Retreating From Algorithms Or Recreating Community?
This retreat from the global commons to local community is a return to the interest-based and geographically-defined roots upon which…
GDPR Reminds Us The Best Privacy Laws Were Written Before The Social Media Era
The few laws that have actually granted some degree of privacy all predate the social media era, reminding us of…