the u.s. is among a growing list of countries offering help to refloat the ever given. and staying in egypt at least 32 people have been killed and scores more injured after 2 passenger trains collided president abdel fattah el-sisi has ordered an immediate investigation into the accident. twisted steel and mangled carriage is grim proof of the deadly impact of 2 trains colliding in egypt province. locals and rescue teams worked into the night pulling injured passengers from the wreckage and recovering the bodies of those who died ah. i thought that the train collided with a car took took and after leaving the house i found the 2 trains hitting each other i went running wearing my home clothes and we found people lying on the ground women and children and we removed the deceased people and took the injured to the

ambulances. line and. a lot of them. put some wooden planks of the ambulances would be able to cross the canal it was a mess many people were stuck inside the trains no one could carry them out. authorities say the accident happened after someone pulled the emergency brakes on one of the trains causing the 2 trains to collide at least 2 carriages were overturned. agent has been marred by train accidents in recent years it's poor safety record is blamed on a crumbling infrastructure and insufficient maintenance. this is unlikely to be the last tragedy to unfold on egypt's railroads. here's a roundup of the other stories making news around the world. another deadly accident in egypt at least 8 people have died and more than 20 have been injured

after an apartment building collapsed in the capital cairo rescue workers were searching for any survivors trapped under the rubble prosecutors are investigating the cause of the collapse. thousands of protesters marched through the streets of the algerian capital algiers on friday to demand sweeping changes to the government and political system most demonstrators are supporters of the iraq movement that ousted former president abilities but defeat in 2019 after 20 years in power. comes a near has buried former president john mica foully who died earlier this month reportedly from heart failure to fully was one of africa's most prominent deniers of the coronavirus crisis and opposition leaders claim the disease played a role in his unexpected death. at least 19 pro-democracy protesters have been killed in a violent crackdown on demonstrations in myanmar it happened as the country's military regime staged a major show force for its annual armed forces day parade in the capital nay pyi

taw. u.s. president joe biden says china's xi jinping and russian russia's vladimir putin are among 40 world leaders that he is inviting to a summit on climate change has made the climate crisis a top priority of his administration the virtual summit is planned for april. questions are being raised in the united states about how the suspect in the boulder colorado mass shooting was able to buy a semiautomatic weapon records show he passed a background check even though he had been convicted of assault 10 people died in the rampage which has reopened the debate about gun rights in the u.s. did in his poll. what started as a regular day at the supermarket ended in a nightmare. the shooter opened fire and killed 10 people. residents of boulder have come to pay their respects many with tears in their eyes

. and to this king soopers many times i pick up my prescription here all the time both me and my roommate you know come shopping here all the time you know this is right down the street from where several of my friends live but it was just terrifying i was frantically texting all of my friends to see you know are they ok are you are you safe are you counted for like because in this sort of situation it's you really never know only a few miles away at a local shooting range customers are here to shoot. to get advice on gun sales and to buy equipment. the incident in boulder doesn't stop people from coming quite the opposite businesses who. but the shooting is a sensitive topic. visitors refused talking to us as they don't want to get sucked into any political discussion at

this point about gun control off the record they told us that they fear stronger restrictions and want to pile up others just want to be ready to defend themselves if the next shooting happens. but that's not the only reason guns are important for both sides of the political spectrum in colorado the state is home to the rocky mountains and known for its stunning landscape viage life and outdoor activities. for many locals hunting is their main outdoor sport of choice the hunting culture is deeply ingrained in their identity as it is for many in the united states for gun enthusiasts any restrictions against the right to bear arms is seen as a threat to the individual freedom. inside the walls of colorado's capitol

there's an ongoing fight over gun safety state senator tom sullivan says son alexander a fatal shooting in 2012 he once better background checks on gun sales and calls on gun supporters to be part of the conversation they need to begin working with us because it's not an us versus them it's all of us we all live in this in this community we are all impacted by the violence and the tragedy that just happened last monday up in boulder and we all have to be a part of the solution communities like boulder conta in this fight alone real change can only happen on a federal level. german health officials are warning that the 3rd wave of cova 1000 currently gripping the country could prove deadlier than the previous 2 thirds in the public to limit social

contact over the easter holiday to slow the spread of the virus more than 20000 new cases were reported on saturday. just over 10 percent of all germans have received at least their 1st over 1000 vaccination in april 15 1000000 vaccine doses will be delivered more than were used in the entire 1st quarter that's good news but the head of germany's disease control center warns that the nations alone won't be enough to stop the 3rd wave that has just begun to pick up momentum. there are clear signs that this wave could be even worse than the 1st 2 we have to be prepared for that the number of cases will rise sharply more people will become seriously ill that clinics will be overcrowded and that many people will die we are only at the beginning of this development the number of occupied hospital beds has risen the outbreaks in nursing homes have declined and the number of infected

seniors is low reducing social contacts should remain top priority as of tuesday a negative test result is required before boarding a plane to germany. entry regulation is not a game changer for the 2 weeks of easter vacation the situation is too serious for that infections are happening because the virus has momentum at the moment the numbers are rising too quickly and variance make the situation particularly dangerous. this will be the 2nd year in a row that germans won't be allowed to travel over easter the government recommends families meet outdoors and keep a safe distance. to sports now in the 2021 formula one season starts this weekend with the bahrain grand prix last year saw lewis hamilton win a 7th title tying the record set by german racing great michel. this year hamilton is seeking a record 8th championship but will have to get past another schumacher to do it

michelle son mick is among the competitors but the stage is set in bahrain for the return to formula one of one of the biggest names in the sport's history haas driver nick schumacher will make his debut this weekend. i'm happy to be here i'm happy to grow to have brought back the human name into formula one you know see i've done it with championships on my back so you know we've proved that i'm able to drive race car 22 year old schumacher is last year's formula to champion and before that he cut his teeth in formulas $4.00 and $3.00 now he's arrived at the highest level. of my pos and is like you know the proper red one pos is just like wow you know it's amazing i remember like seeing my dad having one and i was like it was i want to one but i always had to get one but anyways i have one now and it's amazing and i'm really looking forward to it. schumacher senior made

his debut at the same age exactly 30 years ago he went on to win a record 7 formula one championships. that record was equaled last year by the driver of this car. and now lewis hamilton is looking to go clear with an 8th title . of the rive more excited i think than i have in a long time. to sit down and to succeed if they get going we're going to have a real great battle one way or another. that's what i've always loved. but in bahrain this weekend all eyes will be on the heir to the schumacher dynasty as he takes. his 1st steps on racing's biggest stage. arsenal legend t.v. on t.v. who recently coached in major league soccer says he will quit social media until tech companies take racism and bullying seriously the former friend striker and world cup winner revealed the news on his twitter account he says he will not

return to social media until companies quote regulate their platforms with the same vigor and ferocity that they currently do when you infringe copyright racial abuse against footballers has become increasingly common on social media. he's been teasing fans about a comeback for some time now its official. announced a return to boxing in july according to some near ports that is he could take on floyd mayweather their last match 14 years ago generated millions in revenue this will be the 48 year old's 1st match since retiring in 2008 gold medalist has won world championships in 6 different weight classes. you're watching t.v. news here's a reminder of our top story this hour operators have failed in their latest bid to refloat the massive cargo ship stuck in the suez canal experts say dislodging the ship could take weeks blockages forcing many vessels to reroute across africa

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if you would like. for me. you should really check out our. podcast. each holding the same device. these photos may be interpreted differently just. one of the key elements of artificial intelligence is that it teaches itself but to learn to be fed with massive amounts of data that data is collected by humans that's the way. the conclusions it draws. on the data it has to

work with here's an example of how things can go wrong those 2 are nearly identical images were presented to cloud vision image recognition software the shocking result the temperature. was identified as a monocular a bit strange perhaps but understandable mistake you might say the same object held in the dock skinned and was identified as a handgun. remove the label gun from its system but is that really enough to counter assumptions made by its algorithm people and people in particular often suffer from discrimination systems. as the new american documentary coded by it was revealed during my 1st semester at mit i got computer vision software that was supposed to track my face didn't work until i put on this white mask i'm thinking all right what's going on here is that the lighting conditions is that the angle at

which i'm looking at the camera or is there something more in 20 teen choice was one of the 1st computer scientists to reveal the systems are racist the documentary quoted by staring to buy shalani can tell you tells her story. the film explains why i systems are racist many of the algorithms used in the software are developed and tested by teams consist mainly of white men their view of the world is reproduced in the software and they're less likely to notice what is this room is very biased. systems are fed does as it made up mostly of white people as a result the technology ends up less accurate when it comes to people of color. the media that the most diverse the data that spread into these ai system as is the the better it can identify a variety of people and i mentioned i can but the bias goes even deeper and begins

even before the does it sets are created. this thing mid-air hardware and. poorly made it starts with the hardware which was originally designed for use in cameras and movies so it was designed with the white men in mind and so on the light senses the way the devices are calibrated infrared technology developed in recent decades they were all designed with white skin in mind and with how light reflects on white skin only they ignored the fact that people have many different skin colors which also reflects light differently the least and that's a 50 and that's. why tweaking the algorithms isn't enough a more fundamental change is needed. clewiston dimension the make decent people using these technologies are key here in other words all of us at the end of the day what's being programmed is not the only factor what also matters is how we

interact with our technology and what data we feed into it that's what we're missing of we're missing that fundamental debate about social inclusion and exclusion about discrimination and how biased permeates our society with the idea of vetting team and so on in this community. continuing her fight her findings public even appearing before the u.s. congress. she's also the founder of the auguries nick justice league which is working to create. a more equitable artificial intelligence when it comes to equality we still have a long way to go especially when algorithms are involved algorithms also used an online search engines the most obvious example is google's image search helps us navigate the world if you're looking for information on something or want to see what someone looks like you'll probably start googling them but a recent experiment conducted by the w.

shows that google rhythms often lead to skewed results searching for women of specific nationalities online is a harsh lesson in stereotypes searching for brazilian women yields young women in suggestive poses that german women brings that many politicians and athletes don't chevelle analysis team used google's very own ai at cloud vision safes to analyze thousands of images this image processing software was designed to spot sexualized content google uses it to flag suggestive images search for women from dominican republic to brazil and up to 40 percent. sexually suggestive for american women it's just 5 percent and for german women 4 percent. this has a major impact on how women are seen and treated and women from certain countries are especially vulnerable search for ukrainian women for example and 61 of the top

100 results are links to dating sites or websites with sexualized content. algorithms are key to our data driven an automated world the images they deliver can be shockingly biased racist and sexist but for data scientist catherine it's not really the algorithms that are to blame algorithm learns because we train it using machine learning so either whether is deep learning with a neural network so to speak or it's a shallow machine learning were feeding it data and were asking it to form an opinion and of course when that opinion is based on data that has unfair treatment of groups then very much learned in china is being used to identify specific ethnic groups take the telecom giant while away which took part in testing and we go

software that could identify faces of the countries we got minority that's according to. a u.s. based company specializing in video surveillance software as accuracy rate is estimated at about 70 percent is reportedly being used across china so is ethnic discrimination being automated. this camera system tested by weiwei is designed to use ai to identify people of specific. it was trained on data sets that we teach it to identify age and gender and ethnicity. the system was trained on data sets containing people from china's we've got minority and none we can. to teach it to use facial features to determine if the city what's even more disturbing is hampshire who plans to use it when the ai system blank someone is a member of the weak a minority it can trigger we go along and notify the police. in the

region of northwestern china security forces have implemented a massive surveillance network designed to clamp down on the we can minority hundreds of thousands of we have been detained in so-called reeducation camps. officially chinese companies have denied that their testing software is being used for commercial purposes but internet giant alibaba has already admitted that its cloud division has developed discriminatory ai software and even greater concern is the fact that it is custom a step by step instructions for how to use the software to target we've got muslims paired with mobile phones and surveillance cameras the software enables users in china to send images of people to its cloud service to flag them as suspicious we guess in other words users as opposed to keep feeding the facial recognition eye with data that enhances racial targeting as truly scary tools like the show that can be used to target ethnic groups says karen young an expert in artificial

intelligence and human rights very powerful systems increasingly being used to sought score and organize people people at population what level and even though we don't see that kind of drastic action being taken in western industrialized societies there are an increasing number of social. scoring people particularly in the criminal justice system to make predictions based on algorithmic assessment of the kinds of risks that they ponies to public safety in the u.s. african-americans and asian americans where up to 100 times more likely to be mis identified by facial recognition systems than white. that's according to a study commissioned by the us government falls match can lead to all sorts of problems like a mistake in the rest but these systems are growing increasingly popular and not just in the u.s. that could have a serious impact on society says karisma billie's from the institute for ethics at

oxford university. extremely. extremely unfair to take one example in 2016 microsoft launched its teeth. designed to reply to twitter users in less than a single day of exposure. and twitter had taught it to parrot sexist racist anti-semitic and a sense of. why are such biased in every poor systems society. based artists and researchers. are exploring that question. the data sets being fed into these ai systems are always so the systems and up conservatives and outdated. used to predict and. to. underscore what to

expect in the future. to expect them to be. anything different than the data. it's amusing as it. can be very. anyone they deem to. gender friends. and you may never realize. you may have. because of your personal and you'll never know about it. you may have been subjected to discrimination. it's truly a massive problem an easy way to visualize how ai works is to imagine you're baking a cake if you use the wrong gradients the cake just won't taste good similarly if the data used to train ai software is poor and not representative of the diversity found in society then it won't work properly except that here we're not talking

about a cake but more dramatic consequences and by now this poses a greater threat to certain people like people of color and it's not the technology that is to blame i don't think that we should be working to make the world together tarion this is something for whom i opinion we need to raise awareness for how ai systems can have a racist and discriminatory impact so before we adopt a more widely they need to be rigorously tested according to ethical criteria what about you have you ever been negatively affected by algorithmic systems or do you believe that you're not really affected by them but it's not on you tube facebook or d.w. dot com i for now take care and you next time. favorite

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