What does the botched handling of a security
breach cost?
SoftBank
Bids to Buy Uber Shares for 30% Less Than Current Value
Worms, one each, large can.
Facebook
rolls out AI to detect suicidal posts before they’re reported
This is software
to save lives. Facebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial
intelligence technology will
scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when
necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their
friends, or contact local first-responders. By using AI to flag
worrisome posts to human moderators instead of waiting for user
reports, Facebook can decrease how long it takes to send help.
Facebook previously
tested using AI to detect troubling posts and more
prominently surface suicide reporting options to friends in the
U.S. Now Facebook is will scour all types of content around
the world with this AI, except
in the European Union, where General
Data Protection Regulation privacy laws on profiling users based
on sensitive information complicate the use of this tech.
… Unfortunately, after TechCrunch asked if
there was a way for users to opt out, of having their posts a
Facebook spokesperson responded that users
cannot opt out. They noted that the feature is designed
to enhance user safety, and that support resources offered by
Facebook can be quickly dismissed if a user doesn’t want to see
them.]
When
politicians really, really, really want a big win.
This City
Hall, brought to you by Amazon
There’s rising worry that corporations are
taking over America. But after reviewing a slew of the bids by
cities and states wooing Amazon’s massive second headquarters, I
don’t think “takeover” quite captures what’s going on.
More like “surrender.”
Last month Amazon announced
it got 238 offers for its new, proposed 50,000-employee HQ2. I
set out to see what’s in them, but only about 30 have been released
so far under public-record acts.
… Chicago has offered to let Amazon pocket
$1.32 billion in income taxes paid by its own workers. This is
truly perverse. Called a personal income-tax diversion, the workers
must still pay the full taxes, but instead of the state getting the
money to use for schools, roads or whatever, Amazon would get to keep
it all instead.
… Most of the HQ2 bids had more traditional
sweeteners. Such as Chula Vista, California, which offered to give
Amazon 85 acres of land for free (value: $100 million) and to excuse
any property taxes on HQ2 for 30 years ($300 million). New Jersey
remains the dollar king of the subsidy sweepstakes, having offered
Amazon $7 billion to build in Newark.
Perspective.
How
Artificial Intelligence Is Powering Everyday Tasks
… More companies are jumping into AI
development. Frank Chen, a partner at top venture capital firm
Andreessen Horowitz, said many of the roughly 1,500 startups his firm
sees annually began turning to AI two years ago. “Now, 60% to 70%
of the companies we see self-identify as an AI startup,” he said at
the conference. Chen predicted that AI will become as pervasive in
business as databases did because of its usefulness. Databases are
“so generally useful, they got assigned to all the applications.
AI is exactly the same,” he added. “AI
is going to get into everything.”
Chen added that investors will soon stop looking
specifically for AI startups, and instead assume that all startups
are using AI in some form.
… Everlaw
helps lawyers prepare for trials. The first step in any trial is the
gathering of evidence. The startup uses AI to do things like read
documents to find ones helpful to the lawyer’s case and identify
those that need to be sent to the opposition to avoid a mistrial.
If I was a student, I’d try anything that might
help. Just saying…
GradeProof
Helps Students Improve Their Papers
GradeProof
is a service designed to help students improve their writing.
GradeProof lets students either import documents or write documents
within the GradeProof editor. Either way that the students use, the
next step is the same. GradeProof identifies spelling, grammar, and
phrasing errors within a student's writing. GradeProof highlights
and color codes the errors that it identifies for students. Students
can then click on each highlighted error to see a suggested change.
Students can click on each suggested change to immediately implement
the change.
GradeProof lets students import documents from
Google Docs and Dropbox. Students can also upload Word files. A
third option is to just write a document from scratch in the
GradeProof editor.
GradeProof
operates on a freemium model. With
a free account students can use GradeProof to identify spelling,
grammar, and phrasing mistakes. A paid account will
evaluate those things as well as suggest changes to improve the
eloquence of statements. Paid accounts also identify phrases that
might have been plagiarized intentionally or unintentionally.
Yes. I want one.
Here’s
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