The future of marketplaces, companies using information you share on the internet to train their AI and students band together to send a powerful climate change message.
What’s Next for Marketplace Startups?: (15 min read) – link
An insightful analysis of the marketplace environment by a16z. The “trust” element that has become more and more important to the value of marketplaces is so true and it will be fascinating to see how that might play out in the next evolution of the marketplace and if it will open up regulated industries.
Facial recognition’s ‘dirty little secret’: Millions of online photos scraped without consent: (13 min read) – link
Does sharing something freely online mean it’s OK for someone to use that information to train AI? This article is an accessible exploration of the issue – IBM have used images from Flickr to create a training dataset for facial recognition and made the dataset available. Is this going beyond using the images “for the intended purpose” even though the information was shared freely?
School students march against climate change: (2 min read) – link, and link
This march went past our offices yesterday – it was really powerful to see our youth in massive numbers together sending a message on an issue they feel strongly about. By coincidence I also came across this visualisation of global temperature anomalies between 1880 and 2017 last week – link
Image credit:
Geoff Greenwood