Data is eating the world, byte after byte after byte. Here’s the latest data on the state of data. 1 way they prefer to get news [Deloitte]8 percentage of Boomers that ranked social media as the No. Fill” to solve the final puzzle in the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, over two minutes ahead of the fastest human contestant and 1,300 other human contestants [DeepLearning.AI]74 percentage reduction in application review time achieved by GRADE, the GRaduate ADmissions Evaluator, an AI evaluation system built and used by the graduate program in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin; nevertheless, the university stopped using GRADE in its graduate admission process, “agreeing that it had the potential to replicate superficial biases in the scoring” [USA Today]30 million the number of predictions per second a single AI model can make in order to match Pinterest users’ interests with relevant ads [WSJ]600 the hours of work it took 4 researchers to classify various katydid species from just 10 recorded hours of sound; a machine-learning algorithm performed the same task while its human creators “went out for a beer” [Scientific American]“AI is neither artificial nor intelligent”—Kate CrawfordThe state of the web…25 percentage of all “deep links” on the New York Times website (in articles from 1996 to mid-2019)—pointing to a specific web page outside of NYT.com—are completely inaccessible (aka “linkrot”) [CJR]“The rapid sharing of information through links enhances the field of journalism. That it is being compromised by the fundamental volatility of the Web points to the need for new practices, workflows, and technologies”— John Bowers, Clare Stanton, and Jonathan Zittrain, “What the ephemerality of the Web means for your hyperlinks,” Columbia Journalism Review, May 2021“Decentralization requires compromises: The Web had to throw away the ideal of total consistency of all its interconnections, ushering in the infamous message ‘Error 404: Not Found’ but allowing unchecked exponential growth”—Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila, “The Semantic Web,” Scientific American, May 2001

Source: Forbes May 31, 2021 12:56 UTC