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Tag Archives: Political

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MIT CSAIL’s AI can detect fake news and political bias

October 4, 2018   Big Data

Fake news continues to rear its ugly head. In March of this year, half of the U.S. population reported seeing deliberately misleading articles on news websites. A majority of respondents to a recent Edelman survey, meanwhile, said that they couldn’t judge the veracity of media reports. And given that fake news has been shown to spread faster than real news, it’s no surprise that almost seven in ten people are concerned it might be used as a “weapon.”

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and the Qatar Computing Research Institute believe they’ve engineered a partial solution. In a study that’ll be presented later this month at the 2018 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference in Brussels, Belgium, they describe an artificially intelligent (AI) system that can determine whether a source is accurate or politically prejudiced.

The researchers used it to create an open-source dataset of more than 1,000 news sources annotated with “factuality” and “bias” scores. They claim it’s the largest of its kind.

“A [promising] way to fight ‘fake news’ is to focus on their source,” the researchers wrote. “While ‘fake news’ are spreading primarily on social media, they still need a ‘home’, i.e., a website where they would be posted. Thus, if a website is known to have published non-factual information in the past, it is likely to do so in the future.”

 MIT CSAIL’s AI can detect fake news and political bias

The novelty of the AI system lies in its broad contextual understanding of the mediums it evaluates: rather than extract features (the variables on which the machine learning model trains) from news articles in isolation, it considers crowdsourced encyclopedias, social media, and even the structure of URLs and web traffic data in determining trustworthiness.

It’s built on a Support Vector Machine (SVM) — a supervised system commonly used for classification and regression analysis — that was trained to evaluate factuality and bias on a three-point (low, mixed, and high) and seven-point scale (extreme-left, left, center-left, center, center-right, right, extreme-right), respectively.

According to the team, the system only needs 150 articles to detect if a new source can be trusted reliably. It’s 65 percent accurate at detecting whether a news source has a high, low, or medium level of “factuality,” and is 70 percent accurate at detecting whether it’s left-leaning, right-leaning, or moderate.

On the articles front, it applies a six-prong test to the copy and headline, analyzing not just the structure, sentiment, engagement (in this case, the number of shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook), but also the topic, complexity, bias, and morality (based on the Moral Foundation theory, a social psychological theory intended to explain the origins of and variations in human moral reasoning). It calculates a score for each feature, and then averages that score over a set of articles.

 MIT CSAIL’s AI can detect fake news and political bias

Above: A chart showing where news sources in the researchers’ database fall regarding factuality and bias.

Wikipedia and Twitter also feed into the system’s predictive models. As the researchers note, the absence of a Wikipedia page may indicate that a website isn’t credible, or a page might mention that the source in question is satirical or expressly left-leaning. Moreover, they point out that publications without verified Twitter accounts, or those with recently created accounts which obfuscate their location, are less likely to be impartial.

The last two vectors the model takes into account are the URL structure and web traffic. It detects URLs that attempt to mimic those of credible news sources (e.g., “foxnews.co.cc” rather than “foxnews.com”) and considers the websites’ Alexa Rank, a metric calculated by the number of overall pageviews they receive.

The team trained the system on 1,066 news sources from Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), a website with human fact-checkers who manually annotate sites with accuracy and biased data. To produce the aforementioned database, they set it loose on 10-100 articles per website (a total of 94,814).

As the researchers painstakingly detail in their report, not every feature was a useful predictor of factuality and/or bias. For example, some websites without Wikipedia pages or established Twitter profiles were unbiased, and news sources ranked highly in Alexa weren’t consistently less biased or more factual than their less-trafficked competitors.

Interesting patterns emerged. Articles from fake news websites were more likely to use hyperbolic and emotional language, and left-leaning outlets were more likely to mention fairness and reciprocity. Publications with longer Wikipedia pages, meanwhile, were generally more credible, as were those with URLs containing a minimal number of special characters and complicated subdirectories.

In the future, the team intends to explore whether the system can be adapted to other languages (it was trained exclusively on English), and whether it can be trained to detect region-specific biases. And it plans to launch an app that’ll automatically respond to news items with articles “that span the political spectrum.”

“If a website has published fake news before, there’s a good chance they’ll do it again,” Ramy Baly, lead author on the paper and a postdoctoral associate, said. “By automatically scraping data about these sites, the hope is that our system can help figure out which ones are likely to do it in the first place.”

They’re fare from the only ones attempting to combat the spread of fake news with AI.

Dehli-based startup Metafact taps natural language processing algorithms to flag misinformation and bias in news stories and social media posts. And AdVerify.ai, a software-as-a-service platform that launched in beta last year, parses articles for misinformation, nudity, malware, and other problematic content, and cross-references a regularly updated database of thousands of fake and legitimate news items.

Facebook, for its part, has experimented with deploying AI tools that “identify accounts and false news,” and it recently acquired London-based startup Bloomsbury AI to aid in its fight against misleading stories.

Some experts aren’t convinced that AI’s up to the task. Dean Pomerleau, a Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute scientist who helped organize the Fake News Challenge, a competition to crowdsource bias detection algorithms, told The Verge in an interview that AI lacked the nuanced understanding of language necessary to suss out untruths and false statements.

“We actually started out with a more ambitious goal of creating a system that could answer the question ‘Is this fake news, yes or no?’” he said. “We quickly realized machine learning just wasn’t up to the task.”

Human fact-checkers aren’t necessarily better. This year, Google suspended Fact Check, a tag that appeared next to stories in Google News that “include information fact-checked by news publishers and fact-checking organizations,” after conservative outlets accused it of exhibiting bias against conservative outlets.

Whatever the ultimate solution — whether AI, human curation, or a mix of both — it can’t come fast enough. Gartner predicts that by 2022, if current trends hold, a majority of people in the developed world will see more false than true information.

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Late Night Political Humor

September 6, 2017   Humor

Last night President Trump said of his critics, “I went to better schools than they did. I was a better student than they were. I live in a bigger, more beautiful apartment. And I live in the White House, too.” Then someone handed Trump a fidget spinner and he quieted right down. – Conan O’Brien

Last night President Trump spoke at a rally in Arizona and really fired up his supporters. He opened his speech by saying, “Our movement is a movement built on love.” In other words, he started with his best joke. – Conan O’Brien

In her new book, Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump a “creep” who “made her skin crawl.” When he heard, Trump smiled and said, “I still got it.” – Conan O’Brien

At yesterday’s Trump rally, the crowd was chanting “CNN Sucks!” And man, you do not want to hear what they had to say about the Science Channel. – Conan O’Brien

It is being reported that President Trump is no longer speaking to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Upon hearing this, Melania went to McConnell and said, “Teach me, Master.” – Conan O’Brien

In Saudi Arabia, a 14-year-old boy was detained for dancing to the Macarena. You know, I don’t say this often but I’m going to side with the Saudi government on this one. – Conan O’Brien

Some parents in California are mad that a kindergarten teacher read their kids a book about transgenderism. It was the Dr. Seuss classic, “Cat in the Hat Who Identifies as a Dog.” – Conan O’Brien



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Late Night Political Humor

August 15, 2017   Humor

[Jokes from Aug 7, 2017]

As of Friday, Donald Trump is on a 17-day vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. He’s there to relax after months of grueling golf at Mar-a-Lago. – Stephen Colbert

President Trump is in the middle of his 17-day trip to his New Jersey golf course, but he says it isn’t a vacation. And the staff at the White House said, “For us it is.” – Jimmy Fallon

We reached an important milestone today, because it was Donald Trump’s 200th day in the White House today. Whooo! Of course, he celebrated in his favorite way, by not going to work at the White House. – James Corden

The White House is undergoing a $ 3.4 million renovation. Trump said he’s hoping to replace the kitchen, the carpeting, and the attorney general. – Conan O’Brien

In fact this morning Trump tweeted he will be working in New Jersey while the White House goes through a long-planned renovation. Yeah, the White House does need some work. Apparently that place has a ton of leaks. – James Corden

President Trump is on 17-day vacation at a golf course — and tweeted 15 times today. – Jimmy Kimmel

But the president swears he’s not taking it easy, tweeting: “Working in Bedminster, N.J., as long-planned construction is being done at the White House. This is not a vacation — meetings and calls!” Meetings AND calls! Wow! Both of them! Trump has to do all that during his vacation? Man, I would NOT want to work for Vladimir Putin. Tough boss! – Stephen Colbert

Meanwhile the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is also on vacation. Which is kind of suspicious. It’s like when your husband and secretary go on a work trip together. – Jimmy Kimmel

Of course, since it’s Putin, he also released photos of himself chilling by the river. [shows photo of bare-chested Putin] Man, those sanctions have already devastated the Russian shirt industry. – Stephen Colbert

As much as people complain about Trump going on vacation, at least he keeps his shirt on. – Jimmy Fallon

Trump’s buddy Vladimir Putin is also taking a break. He’s in Siberia putting on a snorkel and shooting fish with a spear gun. Though he later claimed the fish were killed by Ukrainian separatists. – Stephen Colbert

The Kremlin just released photos of Vladimir Putin on vacation. Putin was like, “Forget about the dad bod, feast your eyes on the Vlad bod.” – Jimmy Fallon

I will say, compared to Trump THAT looks like a vacation. I would love to go on a bro-down fishing trip with Vladimir Putin. I’ll bet it would be so much fun that I’d NEVER come back. – Stephen Colbert

Vice President Mike Pence denies he’s planning to run for president in 2020. He said, “I’m pretty sure I’ll be president way before then.” – Conan O’Brien

Pence is like, “This is ridiculous. I’m not focused on being president in 2020, I’m focused on being president after Trump is impeached sometime this year.” – James Corden

Mike Pence is denying speculation that he wants to be elected president in 2020. Pence was like, “I think you mean re-elected president in 2020.” – Jimmy Fallon

According to The New York Times, Vice President Mike Pence is planning on running for president if Trump doesn’t run for a second term. But he issued a statement strongly denying the article, saying it was disgraceful, offensive to me, my family and our entire team. He said to suggest he is running for president in 2020 is laughable and absurd. Right, why would Mike Pence want to be president in 2020? He’s going to be president much, much sooner than that. – Jimmy Kimmel

Vice President Mike Pence is adamantly denying a New York Times article claiming that he has begun a secret campaign for a presidential run in 2020. He says he has even less interest in being president than Trump does, which is saying something. – James Corden

Former communications director Anthony Scaramucci wants to turn his time in the White House into a sitcom. Networks say it’s impossible, because sitcoms have to last at least 30 minutes. – Jimmy Fallon

According to reports, officials at the Department of Agriculture told staffers to avoid the term “climate change” in their research and to use terms like “weather extremes” instead. And instead of earthquakes, they’re now called “li’l shakeroos.” – Seth Meyers

Fox News host Eric Bolling has been suspended following reports that he sent lewd photos to multiple female coworkers. Or as Fox News is reporting it: “Did Hillary Frame Eric Bolling?” – Seth Meyers

Tonight was the finale of “The Bachelorette.” Millions of people tuned into the finale to see who Rachel would spend the rest of her summer with. – Jimmy Fallon

The Mars Curiosity Rover celebrated its fifth year in space by humming “Happy Birthday” to itself. The Rover then drank a bottle of white wine and cried itself to sleep. – Conan O’Brien

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August 6, 2017   Humor

[Jokes from Jul 27, 2017]

“Dancing With the Stars” is reportedly trying to get former White House press secretary Sean Spicer to be a contestant, marking the first “Dancing With the Stars” contestant who’s hit rock bottom before going on the show. – Jimmy Fallon

Trump’s new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, made news for comparing Trump’s attempt to repeal Obamacare to Lincoln abolishing slavery. In a related story, Anthony Scaramucci is now expected to take Sean Spicer’s spot on “Dancing With the Stars.” – Jimmy Fallon

Spicer’s not the only one doing a reality show. On the next episode of “Undercover Boss”, Vladimir Putin is going to go work at the White House. “Hello. I’m a tour guide here. How are things at home?” – Jimmy Fallon

New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is on a real tear to stop leaks from the White House. We know this because someone in the White House leaked it. – James Corden

Scaramucci was livid last night after some of his financial information was leaked, so he went on Twitter and seemingly blamed chief of staff Reince Priebus for the leak, but then he deleted the tweet later, which is a great start for a communications director. – James Corden

Now I don’t know, Reince Priebus might be the leak, Scaramucci might be lying. Only one thing is certain, I can’t spell either of their names. – James Corden

A lot of news coming out of the White House, but strangely enough, Donald Trump isn’t the one making the news this time. I guess his meds are finally kicking in? – James Corden

First lady Melania Trump announced today that her first solo international trip will be to Toronto, Canada. The purpose of her trip hasn’t been announced. But I’m guessing sanctuary? – Seth Meyers

In a recent interview, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed that the he watched clips from the popular TV show “The West Wing” to prepare for debates. While Donald Trump prepared for debates by watching “Friday the 13th”. – Seth Meyers

The publisher of Hillary Clinton’s upcoming memoir announced today that the title of her book will be the statement “What Happened”. Well, that’s the censored version. – Seth Meyers

The owner of a clown motel in Nevada is looking to sell it. The clown motel is like any other motel, except it only has one parking spot. – Jimmy Fallon

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