{"id":129823,"date":"2021-11-02T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T09:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/could-big-data-beat-our-opioid-crisis"},"modified":"2021-11-02T02:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T09:23:08","slug":"could-big-data-beat-our-opioid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/could-big-data-beat-our-opioid-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Could Big Data Beat Our Opioid Crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-big-data-beat-our-opioid-crisis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experts in the AI and Big Data sphere consider October 2021 to be a dark month. Their pessimism isn\u2019t fueled by rapidly shortening days or chilly weather in much of the country\u2014but rather by the grim news from Facebook on the effectiveness of AI in content moderation.<\/p>\n<p>This is unexpected. The social media behemoth has long touted tech tools such as machine learning and Big Data as answers to its moderation woes. As CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained for <a aria-label=\"CBS News\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mark-zuckerberg-lays-out-long-term-vision-for-facebook\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mark-zuckerberg-lays-out-long-term-vision-for-facebook\/\"><em>CBS News<\/em><\/a>, \u201cThe long-term promise of AI is that in addition to identifying risks more quickly and accurately than would have already happened, it may also identify risks that nobody would have flagged at all\u2014including terrorists planning attacks using private channels, people bullying someone too afraid to report it themselves, and other issues both local and global.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts in the AI and Big Data sphere consider October 2021 to be a dark month. Their pessimism isn\u2019t fueled by rapidly shortening days or chilly weather in much of the country\u2014but rather by the grim news from Facebook on the effectiveness of AI in content moderation. This is unexpected. The social media behemoth has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}