Computer Says No
Technology is transforming recruitment. But when it comes to deciding careers, are algorithms really fit for the job? This film unpacks concerns around bias and inaccuracy in algorithm-based hiring.
Technology is transforming recruitment. But when it comes to deciding careers, are algorithms really fit for the job? This film unpacks concerns around bias and inaccuracy in algorithm-based hiring.
Daniel Henry
Self - Presenter
Emily Head
Voice of BOT
Technology is transforming recruitment. But when it comes to deciding careers, are algorithms really fit for the job? This film unpacks concerns around bias and inaccuracy in algorithm-based hiring.
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
Miles Harding buys a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing conscious thought and emotion after an interaction with spilled champagne. Things begin getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, the computer, fall in love with beautiful neighbor Madeline Robistat.
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits. The contributions of John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs are profiled. The decline of two-dimensional animation is chronicled as three-dimensional animation rises. Hard work and creativity seem to share the screen in equal proportions.
This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Whitney Wolfe uses extraordinary grit and ingenuity to break into the male-dominated tech industry.
Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Filmmaker Lawrence Shapiro discusses voice-over acting with the talented people behind the characters.
Phil's new phone comes with an unexpected feature, Jexi...an A.I. determined to keep him all to herself in a comedy about what can happen when you love your phone more than all else.
A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.