Based in Sydney, Australia, Foundry is a blog by Rebecca Thao. Her posts explore modern architecture through photos and quotes by influential architects, engineers, and artists.

Episode 56 - True News, Fake Faces, and Adversarial Algorithms

Episode 56 - True News, Fake Faces, and Adversarial Algorithms

Google's "VP of Trust and Safety" has put out Google's strategy for weeding out fake news. Do they have the right definition? Will it work? What is a VP of Trust and Safety? We'll discuss whether Google is looking out for their users.

In that vein, we wanted to discuss new ways fake news might be generated. The site thispersondoesnotexist.com created images of people who are not real but look pretty convincing. They use Generative Adversarial Networks. After you listen, you'll know how GANs work to create plausible images.


Live Stream

This is also the first time we’ve livestreamed our discussion on YouTube. This is still experimental (Aaron and I are working out the kinks) but I’ll paste what we recorded below:

 
Screen Shot 2019-02-21 at 2.12.06 PM.png
 

Related Episodes

Episode 50 on Bypassing Gatekeepers
Episode 45 on Inside Google
Episode 33 on Ads, Bias, Censorship, Democracy
Episode 28 on the Banning of Alex Jones
Episode 25 on The Great Twitter Purge. They also have their own VP of Trust and Safety.
Episode 9 on Fixing Facebook
Episode 4 on Codebreaking with Multiple Local Maxima

Episode 57 - Data Science, Analogies, and Nearest Neighbors

Episode 57 - Data Science, Analogies, and Nearest Neighbors

Episode 55 - Bitwise: A Life in Code with author David Auerbach

Episode 55 - Bitwise: A Life in Code with author David Auerbach