Author: parvathibakshi

Trustworthiness of YouTube Recommendations: Artificial Intelligence and Bias

5 Jun 2020

by Abhishek Ganguly Artificial intelligence (“AI”) has developed to an extent where it is now seen as a viable alternative to human labour and further, as an alternative for profit maximisation by corporations. For AI to work effectively, personalisation of content becomes imperative. This requires companies to collect and analyse vast amounts of data from … More Trustworthiness of YouTube Recommendations: Artificial Intelligence and Bias

Ethical Concerns in Artificial Intelligence

2 Jun 2020

by Parvathi Bakshi Abstract The increase in interaction between artificial intelligence technologies and the institutions that run society such as healthcare, governance, economic etc. has also seen a rise in ethical concerns. These interactions present not only legal issues of governance and regulation but also raise the matter of underlying trust expected in technology and … More Ethical Concerns in Artificial Intelligence

Information Entropy for Social Science research

22 Mar 2020

What is information entropy?  It is borrowed from the discipline of physics which is a measure of the disorder among the gas molecules. In Machine learning, this concept has been used by Dr. Shannon in his paper “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” published in 1948. It is called information entropy. In simple terms, it can be understood as … More Information Entropy for Social Science research

Internet Governance: An introduction

4 Mar 2020

Introducing the concept  The emergence of the internet has provided its parent companies to extract big data which is now called the new oil. Its weight of importance is the digital traces of data around the social lives of netizens. As Francis Fukuyama’s most criticized and appreciated title ‘The end of history,’ depicted the end of the cold … More Internet Governance: An introduction