I try to make my students understand this.
War is as
War Does: World Order and the Future of Conflict
The
release of the first part of the Senate Select Intelligence
Committee’s bipartisan investigation
into
Russia’s 2016 election interference and Robert Mueller’s recent
testimony
on
Capitol Hill should erase any lingering doubt about this hard truth:
The United States is at war with Russia. For years, Moscow has
persistently attacked the heart of American democracy, seeking to
change electoral outcomes and destroy Americans’ faith in democracy
and the world’s faith in America.
… Putin
certainly believes he’s at war with America, and remains convinced
that Washington has been working for decades to weaken Russia and
take down his regime. He has acted accordingly.
By
contrast, the U.S. response to this new war has been a fairly
reactive, piecemeal and modest set of defensive actions. One reason
for that failure is that this war does not look like any war
Americans have known before, nor is it one that we predicted and
prepared for.
“We
don’t want you to hear what our teachers tell your kids.”
Denison
ISD bans student listen-in apps on campuses
“Devices
with listen-in and student tracking capabilities are becoming more
common among students and parents,” Denison ISD Assistant
Superintendent David Kirkbride said. “The use of listen-in devices
without authorization presents a concern for student privacy and
confidentiality.
… Kirkbride
had previously stated that the district already had a policy
preventing students from recording conversations in class. This new
policy will apply to apps parents use to listen in through their own
child’s device.
… “Having
a device in a classroom setting that is recording what all is going
on presents privacy issues,” Kirkbride said. “You can have a
conversation between a student and a teacher and if a device is in
the vicinity and it captures that conversation that could be a clear
violation of privacy and confidentiality.” [“If
the rest of the class overhears the conversation, we just claim
they’re lying.” Bob]
Still more a people (read: management) problem.
The risks
of amoral A.I.
… The
Yale Journal of Law and Technology published a paper by Robert
Brauneis and Ellen P. Goodman where they describe their efforts to
test the transparency around government adoption of data analytics
tools for predictive algorithms. They filed forty-two open records
requests to various public agencies about their use of
decision-making support tools.
Their
“specific goal was to assess whether open records processes would
enable citizens to discover what policy judgments these algorithms
embody and to evaluate their utility and fairness”. Nearly all of
the agencies involved were either unwilling or unable to provide
information that could lead to an understanding of how the algorithms
worked to decide citizens’ fates.
(Related)
What if AI “forces” good behavior?
Primary
school to use AI to monitor students
A primary school in Shanghai is planning to build
an artificial intelligence (AI) technology system to monitor and
analyze student behavior including extra attention for details such
as smiling or yawning.
… Based on the new technologies, the school
can now recognize, collect and assess student behavior, such as their
sitting posture, yawning, greeting and if they raise their hand to
speak in class.
… The school is also building an intelligent
security and management system.
Whether a student on campus smiles, greets
teachers, volunteers to pick up garbage, runs fast or fights can be
captured and recognized by the system.
Yet another taxonomy.
The Three
Types of Artificial Intelligence: Understanding AI
AI is rapidly
evolving. Artificial Super Intelligence could be here sooner than
expected.
Another excuse for my students? Was keyword
search really better?
As Search
Engines Increasingly Turn To AI They Are Harming Search
Forbes
–
“For
more than half a century our digital search engines have relied upon
the humble keyword.
Yet over the past few years, search engines of all kinds have
increasingly turned to deep learning-powered categorization and
recommendation algorithms to augment and slowly replace the
traditional keyword search. Behavioral and interest-based
personalization has further eroded the impact of keyword searches,
meaning that if ten people all search for the same thing, they may
all get different results. As search engines depreciate traditional
raw “search” in favor of AI-assisted navigation, the concept of
informational access is being harmed and our digital world is being
redefined by the limitations of today’s AI…”
Perspective.
Every company has competition.
Shopify
All Set to Target E-Commerce Behemoth Amazon After Upstaging eBay
… e-commerce
company Shopify has emerged as an unlikely contender to challenge
Amazon and it is now looking increasingly likely after the Canadian
company left eBay in the dust this year in terms of valuation.
Shopify first listed on the New York Stock Exchange back in 2015 and
over the years it has grown steadily.
However,
it was in 2019 that the stock has gathered steam and gained 150% in
the year so far. It now boasts of the market capitalization of $40
billion and manages to go past the eBay at the start of the year.
… Shopify
gives its users the chance to have the same technical capabilities
that one would want in an online store and given the bulk of the
control to the retailers. That is the stark difference between the
two companies and one that could propel Shopify into becoming the
main challenger to the juggernaut that is Amazon. S hopify allows
even the smallest of stores to set up their online store quickly and
the company provides all the necessary tools regarding the website
and payment options.
I suppose this was inevitable since schools
stopped teaching cursive, but can anyone (except us old guys) still
read it?
Start-up
that makes fake AI handwriting raises £400,000
23-year-old start-up founder has raised £400,000
for his business which uses artificial intelligence to create
convincing fake handwriting.
Robert Van Den Bergh said his company, Scribeless,
was already being used by banks, political parties, and religious
groups.
The business’ technology uses software to learn
the nuances of handwriting in order to introduce variation and
inconsistencies in its fake handwriting.
… The business claims that handwritten letters
can see open rates above 95pc, dramatically higher than traditional
follow-up emails.
… The firm has been selling its products to
customers in the US and Europe, and charges
up to £3 per letter.
The most expensive automatically handwritten
products use a robotic fountain pen, but the firm also allows
businesses to pay 25p to print out automatically handwritten notes
with traditional printers.
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