Global Rush to Fund A.I.
March 10, 2020Companies Manipulating A.I. Systems for Competitive Advantage
Lawmakers are not yet aligned on whether manipulating algorithms for competitive advantage meets the criteria for antitrust activity.
Amazon, Google and Facebook have all come under fire in the past few years for manipulating their search systems to prioritize results that are more profitable for their companies.
For example, Google has been accused of de-ranking websites and promoting news stories from preferred partners. Late in 2019 researchers found that Amazon had optimized its search algorithm to boost the visibility of Amazon’s own brands.
Tweaks to search algorithms have a significant impact on what internet users see, whether that is news, products for sale or advertising.
The U.S. and E.U. are currently investigating Amazon’s simultaneous roles as a search engine, marketplace operator and seller of its own products. Lawmakers are not yet aligned on whether manipulating algorithms for competitive advantage meets the criteria for antitrust activity.
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This trend is part of our section on Artificial Intelligence. Other trends in this section include:
- A.I. and Digital Dividends
- Prioritizing Accountability and Trust
- Ambient Computing Expands
- Ubiquitous Digital Assistants
- A.I. for Drug Development
- A.I. for Interviews
- Consumer-Grade A.I. Applications
- The New Mil-Tech Industrial Complex
- National A.I. Strategies
- The Race to Establish A.I. Rules
- Algorithmic Warfare
- Making A.I. Explain Itself
- Using A.I. in Critical Systems
- China’s A.I. Rules
- Artificial Emotional Intelligence
- Personal Digital Twins
- Problematic Data Sets
- A.I. to Catch Cheaters
- Algorithms Designed to Target Vulnerable Populations
- A.I. Still Has a Bias Problem
- A.I. Systems Intentionally Hiding Data
- The Rise of Undocumented A.I. Accidents
- Multitask Learning
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
- New Generative Modeling Techniques
- Probabilistic Programming Languages
- Machine Image Completion
- Hybrid Human-Computer Vision Analysis
- Predictive Machine Vision
- Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
- Customized Machine Learning
- Graph Neural Networks
- Intelligent Optical Character Recognition
- A.I. for the Creative Process
- Generative Algorithms for Content Production
- Generating Virtual Environments from Short Videos
- Automated Versioning
- Automatic Voice Cloning and Dubbing
- Spotting Machine-Written Text
- Algorithmic Fact Checking
- Datamining Crowds
- Deep Linking
- Corporate Biometric Spoofing
- Bots
- Global Rush to Fund A.I.
- Algorithm Marketplaces
- Marketplace Consolidation
- Fragmentation
- Liability Insurance for A.I.
- Ambient Surveillance
- Creating 3D Models from Flat 2D Images
- Neuro-Symbolic A.I. Algorithms and Systems
- Real-Time Machine Learning
- Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
- Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC)
- Natural Language Generation (NLG)
- Real-Time Context in Machine Learning
- General Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
- Deep Learning Scales
- Faster and More Powerful Open Source Frameworks
- Reinforcement Learning and Hierarchical RL
- Continuous Learning
- Using A.I. to Speed the Process of Scientific Discovery
- A.I. in the Cloud
- Robotic Process Automation
- Digital Twins and Cognitive Twins in the Enterprise
- Robots with Cognitive Skills
- Advanced A.I. Chipsets
- Serverless Computing
- Proprietary, Homegrown A.I. Languages
- Proliferation of Franken-Algorithms
- Companies Manipulating A.I. Systems for Competitive Advantage
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