Suspicions confirmed?
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-57520169
The Lazarus heist: How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack
In 2016 North Korean hackers planned a $1bn raid on Bangladesh's national bank and came within an inch of success - it was only by a fluke that all but $81m of the transfers were halted, report Geoff White and Jean H Lee. But how did one of the world's poorest and most isolated countries train a team of elite cyber-criminals?
… SPOILER ALERT: This is the story told in the 10-episode BBC World Service podcast, The Lazarus Heist - click here to listen. This article is a 20-minute read.
What if these claims are being filed by idle AI systems?
Maryland Has Detected Over 500,000 Potentially Fraudulent Unemployment Claim In Last Six Weeks
Normal government intrusion or something else?
NSA Agrees to Release Records on FBI’s Improper Spying on 16,000 Americans
Zachary Stieber reports:
The National Security Agency (NSA) has agreed to release records on the FBI’s improper spying on thousands of Americans, the secretive agency disclosed in a recent letter.
The agreement may signal a rift between the NSA and the FBI, according to attorney Ty Clevenger.
Clevenger last year filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on behalf of The Transparency Project, a Texas nonprofit, seeking information on the FBI’s improper searches of intelligence databases for information on 16,000 Americans.
Read more on The Epoch Times.
(Related)
DOJ Asks DC Court To Compel Decryption Of Device Seized In A Capitol Raid Case
Tim Cushing writes:
The DOJ is testing some waters it may not want to be troubling, not with hundreds of prosecutions stemming from the January 6 Capitol raid on the docket. It has asked the DC court to compel a defendant to decrypt his laptop so the FBI can search it for evidence. (h/t Marcy Wheeler )
The government is seeking an All Writs Act order [PDF] forcing the alleged device owner to unlock the device using either his face or his passcode.
Read more on TechDirt.
No privacy issues here! These are not the ‘droids you are looking for.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/mit-makes-an-ai-smart-carpet-for-monitoring-people-without-cameras/
MIT makes an AI smart carpet for monitoring people without cameras
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have come up with a way to use carpets to monitor humans without using privacy-invading cameras.
… The neural network uses sensors in the carpet to determine if the person is doing sit-ups, stretching, or other actions.
"You can imagine leveraging this model to enable a seamless health-monitoring system for high-risk individuals, for fall detection, rehab monitoring, mobility, and more," says Yiyue Luo, a lead author on a paper about the carpet.
MIT's focus is on 3D human pose estimation using pressure maps recorded by a tactile-sensing carpet.
Ethics ain’t easy? Worth reading...
"A 'building the plane as you fly it' moment": Q&A with Twitter's ethical AI lead Rumman Chowdhury
Rumman Chowdhury has led responsible AI efforts from within major companies for years—first at Accenture, and now as director of the Machine Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) team at Twitter.
… One of the last things I did at Accenture was publish a research paper on what companies need to do to be successful in responsible AI. There were a couple of critical things, and I can boil it down to three things that matter the most.
One is access to leadership.
The second is how success is measured—not just the success of individuals, but also how we measure success in our models and AI systems.
The third is how a company reacts to a bad situation.
Zeroing in on a real definition. A textbook, not in my local library.
https://www.bespacific.com/how-does-artificial-intelligence-work/
How Does Artificial Intelligence Work?
BuiltIn.com: “Less than a decade after breaking the Nazi encryption machine Enigma and helping the Allied Forces win World War II, mathematician Alan Turing changed history a second time with a simple question: “Can machines think?” Turing’s paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (1950), and its subsequent Turing Test, established the fundamental goal and vision of artificial intelligence. At its core, AI is the branch of computer science that aims to answer Turing’s question in the affirmative. It is the endeavor to replicate or simulate human intelligence in machines. The expansive goal of artificial intelligence has given rise to many questions and debates. So much so, that no singular definition of the field is universally accepted. The major limitation in defining AI as simply “building machines that are intelligent” is that it doesn’t actually explain what artificial intelligence is? What makes a machine intelligent? In their groundbreaking textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, authors Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig approach the question by unifying their work around the theme of intelligent agents in machines. With this in mind, AI is “the study of agents that receive percepts from the environment and perform actions.” (Russel and Norvig viii)…”
Download Preface: https://www.pearsonhighered.com/assets/preface/0/1/3/4/0134610997.pdf
Perspective. Same old story, “garbage in, garbage out” and AI gets blamed.
https://www.statnews.com/2021/06/21/algorithm-bias-playbook-hospitals/
‘Nobody is catching it’: Algorithms used in health care nationwide are rife with bias
The algorithms carry out an array of crucial tasks: helping emergency rooms nationwide triage patients, predicting who will develop diabetes, and flagging patients who need more help to manage their medical conditions.
But instead of making health care delivery more objective and precise, a new report finds, these algorithms — some of which have been in use for many years — are often making it more biased along racial and economic lines.
Perspective. An AI can look over 10,000 shoulders at a time.
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/the-robots-are-coming-is-your-firm-ready/
The Robots Are Coming. Is Your Firm Ready?
If you’re worried that robots are coming for your job, you can relax — unless you’re a manager.
A new survey-based study explains how automation is reshaping the workplace in unexpected ways. Robots can improve efficiency and quality, reduce costs, and even help create more jobs for their human counterparts. But the study also finds that more robots can reduce the need for managers.
The study is titled “The Robot Revolution: Managerial and Employment Consequences for Firms.”
I strive to write gooder.
https://www.bespacific.com/umberto-ecos-36-rules-for-writing-well-in-english-or-italian/
Umberto Eco’s 36 Rules for Writing Well (in English or Italian)
You can read all 36 of Eco’s English-relevant writing rules at Clairval’s site. If you’d like to hear more of his writing advice, watch the Louisiana Channel interview clip we featured after his death in 2016...”
Tools to get my students jobs, so they can hire me as a consultant.
5 Apps for Job-Seekers to Organize, Track, and Get Reminders of Job Applications
A typical job search requires you to apply to many places, tailor your resume for each position, and follow up with them. You need a system to track all of these tasks and information. You can always use a spreadsheet or a manual folder, but a better option is to try one of these specialized job application tracker apps.
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