By: Michael Diedrick on Feb 1, 2021
Coded Bias is a new documentary that follows a researcher at MIT, Joy Buolamwini, who discovered that facial recognition doesn’t work for women or people with brown skin. Was it a bug, a feature, or an indication of something endemic to the industry that produces the applications and software that surrounds us?
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By: Michael Diedrick on Oct 15, 2018
The Milwaukee Film Festival is screening a documentary named after a company called General Magic, about “The most important company that came out of Silicon Valley that nobody’s heard of.” Screenings on October 27 and October 29. Scroll past the break for our preview and showtime details.
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By: Michael Diedrick on Sep 20, 2017
Byte is in its third year as community partner for the 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival showing of the film AlphaGo, a documentary that covers the subjects of artificial intelligence and “deep learning”. If you like to see explorations of how artificial intelligence (AI) teaches us humans about us, this will be a fun documentary.
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By: Jen Fox on Aug 29, 2016
Generation Startup, is an upcoming film about six recent college graduates struggling to build their startups. Check it out during the Milwaukee Film Festival, and see if these entrepreneurs have what it takes for their startups to succeed.
read postBy: Joy O'Brien on Sep 10, 2015
It’s that time of year again— the Milwaukee Film Festival is almost here!
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