Meta backs new tool for removing sexual images of minors posted online

Image: The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has announced a new platform designed to help remove sexually explicit images of minors from the internet. Meta revealed in a blog post that it had provided initial funding to create the NCMEC’s free-to-use “Take It Down” … Read more

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta now has a team building AI tools and ‘personas’

Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Meta now has a team dedicated to building tools powered by artificial intelligence, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post on Monday. This could eventually include “AI personas” designed to help people in “various ways” in addition to new AI tools across its apps and services. More specifically, Zuckerberg … Read more

Tune ML models for additional objectives like fairness with SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning

Model tuning is the experimental process of finding the optimal parameters and configurations for a machine learning (ML) model that result in the best possible desired outcome with a validation dataset. Single objective optimization with a performance metric is the most common approach for tuning ML models. However, in addition to predictive performance, there may … Read more