Google To Combat Jihadi Ideology

Google will come up with counter narratives when Jihadist terms are searched.

Alphabet Inc. the parent company of Google is all set to embrace a massive change by devising ways that will help combat jihadist ideology via its search engine platform.

All those people who support the Jihadist mindset and type words that support this agenda on Google will be linked to anti-radicalization links. This will be as part of their pilot scheme as announced by the company.
The new technology derived by the company actually means that those individuals who are at the verge of being radicalized will be provided with Internet links that are completely polar to what they are actually searching for.

A senior executive at Google,  Dr. Anthony House, has unveiled the pilot project to the MPs where he critically analyzed the role of Internet giants whilst dealing with terrorism.

 “We are working on counter-narratives around the world. This year one of the things we’re looking at is we are running two pilot programmes,” claimed Dr. House. He further added, "When people put potentially damaging search terms into our search engine they (will) also find these counter narratives"

The idea which Dr. House advocated is relatively simple and might bring a huge change. The company wishes to ensure that the positive agenda is approachable by the masses. Apart from that, they also wish to make sure that when other individuals come up with search terms that are relatively damaging then they will have to sift through counter narratives. It is similar to make them go through a different perspective that might help them change their mind.

Most governmental institutions have actually realized that counter narratives play a great role in eliminating terrorism. For instance, the videos produced by the Levant and the Islamic State of Iraq generally referred to as Isis- the idea will promote Muslims and other radical individuals to stand united against terrorist mindset.

The Commons were acknowledged by Dr. House regarding the select committee where the search engine removed 14 million videos from its video streaming platform, YouTube for a variety of reasons such as terror provoking content along with breaking other rules.

The company primarily got 100,000 flags from the members of the masses regarding content which they find inappropriate.

The Twitter executive, Nick Pickles claimed that the micro-blogging platform has been successful in removing thousands of extremist accounts in a time span of 12 months. The platform which presently has 320 million active users has hired above 100 individuals that have been divided in teams to cater to inappropriate use of the social media platform.

This is a great way to combat terrorism since a little can make a huge difference in the long run. The damage has already been done but tech giants can now play an active role in minimizing the damage. Google and Twitter need to be appreciated for their endeavors and other tech giants need to come up with similar plans.

Google's Psychedelic Picture Quest Resolved

Google and Facebook coming up with a futuristic image learning algorithm.

Google Inc. the search engine giant and Facebook Inc. the social media giant have collaborated to work on a system that will be designed to function as an artificial neural network. It is extremely interesting to learn that both the companies have not only become successful in reaching their objective that will allow them to identify images but will also assist them in automatically generating pictures through what the machine learns on its own.

Currently, the machine has the capability to recognize buildings, faces, cars and other objects of similar nature. Moreover, it also has the ability to create such images on its own. The machine follows a set pattern which makes it able to comprehend to the trends and patterns. This bears striking resemblance with the human cognition that takes use of cognitive reasoning to function.

It is said that the first algorithm is assigned to make the picture on an arbitrary vector whereas the second is responsible to match it with real looking objects. Moreover, it can also nullify bogus images so that a more definite result can be obtained.

Both the companies recently tested the images where they asked people to choose the real image from the bogus images. Ironically, 40 percent of the population was actually fooled by the fake images. According to a researcher working on the artificial intelligence platform of Facebook believes that the technology has the potential to decipher the abstract form of images. This can be done through the white noise pictures found on TV sets. Apart from that, it has the ability to locate images that are governed from someone’s camera that will be under the influence and structure of the imagery pattern.

Apart from this, Google products and services are also working on another project where an image taken by any user has the ability to detect any type of birds present in the sky. Although the results greatly depend on the quality and resolution of the image, howver, a trial and error mechanism needs to be used to come up with more accurate results.

Both the companies now wish to make the mechanism better so that it can develop the imagery along with adding more test trials so that it can assist further in machine learning.

Facebook and Google have taken a great step that is not only different but will also change the fate of augmented reality. It is extremely enchanting to know that whether other firms will actually be interested to work with this technology that has an image learning algorithm to facilitate virtual reality in the times to come.