How AI Will Help Us Defeat Aging
… “I think that
applying AI to aging is the only way to bring it under the comprehensive
medical control. Our AI ecosystem is
comprised of multiple pipelines. With
our drug discovery and biomarker development pipelines we can go after almost
every disease and we even have several projects in ALS… And since we are considering aging as a form
of disease, many of the same algorithms are used to develop biomarkers and
drugs to prevent and possibly even restore aging-associated damage.”
Renowned futurist Peter Diamandis envisions that in the
next one to two decades, AI will bring in demonetization
of our major everyday expenses and therefore considerably bring down the cost
of living, including health care. But
before that happens, Dr. Zhavoronkov believes that AI can help bring about the
cure for aging and maybe other notorious diseases like cancer.
(Related).
Something for my students to ponder.
Bill Gates could be the world's first trillionaire, but Jeff
Bezos is hot on his heels
… According to a recent
report from Oxfam, an international network of
organizations working to alleviate poverty, given the exponential growth of
existing wealth, the world could have its first trillionaire in the next 25 years.
Gates would be 86 then; Bezos, 78.
… For its
analysis, Oxfam researchers applied the average growth rate of the ultra-rich —
11 percent per year since 2009 — to Gates' current levels of wealth, which was
about $84 billion at the time of the study.
… Their fellow
billionaire Mark Cuban has
another prediction for who will first cross that finish line: entrepreneurs
working with artificial intelligence.
"I am telling you, the world's first trillionaires are going to come from somebody who
masters AI and all its derivatives and applies it in ways we never thought of,"
the star investor of ABC's "Shark Tank" told audiences at the SXSW Conference and Festivals.
See? It can happen to anyone.
Exclusive: Facebook and Google Were Victims of $100M Payment
Scam
When the Justice Department announced the arrest last
month of a man who allegedly swindled more than $100
million from two U.S. tech giants, the news came wrapped in a mystery. The agency didn’t say who was robbed, and nor
did it identify the Asian supplier the crook impersonated to pull off the
scheme.
The mystery is now unraveled. A Fortune
investigation, which involved interviews with sources close to law enforcement
and other figures, has unearthed the identities of the three unnamed companies
plus other details of the case.
The criminal case shows how scams
involving email phishing and fake suppliers can victimize even the most
sophisticated, tech-savvy corporations. But
the crime also raises questions about why the companies have so far kept silent
and whether—as a former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission
observes—it triggers an obligation to tell investors about what happened.
Inevitable?
Great news Australia: We've had our first metadata breach
… The AFP today
revealed one of its officers "illegally" accessed the metadata of an
Australian journalist's phone calls, "earlier this year."
"[The breach] was identified by the AFP as a result
of our own review," said AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin.
Commissioner Colvin said police destroyed all data once it
was clear they had breached the laws, and that data did not form part of any
police investigations.
"Put simply, this was human error. It should not have occurred."
Australia's mandatory data retention laws passed with bipartisan support in March 2015.
Under the bill,
internet service providers and telcos are required by law to store metadata
about customer communications -- including names, addresses and the time,
location and duration of communications -- for two years.
The laws also include provisions requiring police to get a
warrant to access journalists' metadata. [Non-journalists
have no protection? Bob]
… "We have
breached in respect to a journalist's particular circumstances on this occasion,"
he added. "I don't think that gives
cause to say that the public should have their confidence shattered in the
system."
The spectre of a major data breach has been looming since
the laws were first mooted, with critics warning that creating a trove of metadata
on every single Australian with a phone or an internet connection was a recipe
for a major data breach, or a major hack
I’ll grab at least one of these each week while teaching
Computer Security. I’m hoping they get
the message. Why no encryption? Do people still believe that passwords can
protect a laptop?
From a notification
filed on behalf of Donaldson Company, Inc.:
On March 24, 2017, a Donaldson
employee’s company-issued, user ID and password-protected laptop was stolen
from the employee’s vehicle while it was located off Donaldson’s premises. On March 29, 2017, Donaldson discovered that
the laptop contained, in electronic form, certain Donaldson employees’ personal
information, specifically employee hiring information, employee number, name,
birthdate, Social Security number, citizenship, and address.
The incident involved the
personal information of 4,487 individuals,
Doesn’t every politician attempt to influence voters? Are they always dealing in facts? Don’t they too drift into opinion or even fantasy?
Will we simply muzzle all opposing
viewpoints? Could be difficult to
determine where the line is…
Facebook gearing up to fight political propaganda
Facebook is acknowledging that governments or other
malicious non-state actors are using its social network to influence political
sentiment in ways that could affect national elections.
(Related).
How to Detect Fake News in Real-Time
Speaking of influence…
Microsoft hires former FTC commissioner
Former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Julie
Brill is joining Microsoft to head its privacy lobbying department, the company
announced Friday.
As corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of
Microsoft’s privacy and regulatory affairs group, Brill will oversee the
company’s lobbying on cybersecurity, privacy and telecommunications regulation.
For my students. Get
a job with a technology company!
Google CEO Sundar Pichai received nearly US $200 million
salary last year
HOUSTON: Google's
44-year-old India-born CEO Sundar
Pichai received nearly US $200 million in compensation last year, double
the amount he got in 2015.
Pichai received a salary of
US $650,000 last year, slightly less than the US $652,500 he earned
in 2015.
But the long-time Google employee, who was named CEO
during the company's re-organisation in August 2015, received a stock award of
US $198.7 million in 2016, roughly double his 2015 stock award of US $99.8
million.
The company's compensation committee attributed the lavish
pay to Pichai's promotion to CEO and "numerous successful product
launches", the CNN reported. [Compensation for failure is a lot lower. Bob]
Tools for that first draft?
Two Free Speech-to-Text Tools
This morning on Practical Ed Tech Live I answered a
request for a free speech-to-text tool. There
were two that I suggested. One was
Dictation.io and the other was Dictanote.
On Dictation.io you can
simply click "start dictation" then start having your voice
transcribed into a text document. No
registration is required in order to use Dictation.io. More than two dozen languages are support on
Dictation.io.
In Google Chrome you can use the Dictanote Speech Recognizer app available for
free through the Chrome Web Store. To
use the Dictanote
Speech Recognizer just install it from the Chrome Web Store, launch
it, then click the microphone to start taking and recording your voice. The Speech Recognizer will type out your text
when you finish recording. You can then
copy and paste your text to the paragraph box below the Speech Recognizer or to
a document you have open in Google Docs.
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