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Tom Simonite

Business
08.19.2021 07:00 AM

Now That Machines Can Learn, Can They Unlearn? 

Privacy concerns about AI systems are growing. So researchers are
testing whether they can remove sensitive data without retraining the
system from scratch.

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Companies of all kinds use machine learning to analyze people's
desires, dislikes, or faces. Some researchers are now asking a
different question: How can we make machines forget?

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Tom Simonite is a senior writer for WIRED in San Francisco covering
artificial intelligence and its effects on the world. He once trained
an artificial neural network to generate seascapes and is available
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