683: Contextual A.I. for Adapting to Adversaries, with Dr. Matar Haller

Monitoring malicious, user-generated content; contextual AI; adapting to novel evasion attempts: Matar Haller speaks to Jon Krohn about the challenges of identifying, analyzing and flagging malicious information online. In this episode, Matar explains how contextual AI and a “database of evil” can help resolve the multiple challenges of blocking dangerous content across a range of media, even those that are live-streamed. This episode is brought to you by Posit, the open-source data science company (posit.co), by Anaconda, the world's most popular Python distribution (superdatascience.com/anaconda), and by https://WithFeeling.ai, the company bringing humanity into AI. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: • How ActiveFence helps its customers to moderate platform content [05:36] • How ActiveFence finds extreme social media users trying to evade detection [16:32] • How to monitor live-streaming content and analyze it for dangerous material [29:13] • The technologies ActiveFence uses to run its platform [35:54] • Matar’s experience of the Insight Fellows Program (Data Science Fellowship) [40:28] • Leadership opportunities for women in STEM [1:00:41] • Israel’s R&D edge for AI [1:13:19] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/683

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The latest machine learning, A.I., and data career topics from across both academia and industry are brought to you by host Dr. Jon Krohn on the Super Data Science Podcast. As the quantity of data on our planet doubles every couple of years and with this trend set to continue for decades to come, there's an unprecedented opportunity for you to make a meaningful impact in your lifetime. In conversation with the biggest names in the data science industry, Jon cuts through hype to fuel that professional impact. Whether you're curious about getting started in a data career or you're a deep technical expert, whether you'd like to understand what A.I. is or you'd like to integrate more data-driven processes into your business, we have inspiring guests and lighthearted conversation for you to enjoy. We cover tools, techniques, and implementation tricks across data collection, databases, analytics, predictive modeling, visualization, software engineering, real-world applications, commercialization, and entrepreneurship − everything you need to crush it with data science.