What happens when you hand enforcement to a bureaucracy?
https://www.pogowasright.org/europes-data-law-is-broken-departing-privacy-chief-warns/
Europe’s Data Law Is Broken, Departing Privacy Chief Warns
Stephanie Bodoni reports:
The European Union’s “GDPR” privacy law suffers from “massive flaws” and endless infighting, according to one of the bloc’s top regulators.
The General Data Protection Regulation — put in motion with great fanfare three years ago — promised multibillion-euro fines for global companies and faster action to solve 21st century problems. But in reality, it’s sparked clashes between watchdogs and delays to probes, said Johannes Caspar, who’s about to step down as head of the Hamburg data protection commission after 12 years.
Read more on Bloomberg.
Edge or over-the-edge computing?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-ai-is-taking-over-our-gadgets-11624680004
How AI Is Taking Over Our Gadgets
If you think of AI as something futuristic and abstract, start thinking different.
We’re now witnessing a turning point for artificial intelligence, as more of it comes down from the clouds and into our smartphones and automobiles. While it’s fair to say that AI that lives on the “edge”—where you and I are—is still far less powerful than its datacenter-based counterpart, it’s potentially far more meaningful to our everyday lives.
… These so-called edge devices can be pretty much anything with a microchip and some memory, but they tend to be the newest and most sophisticated of smartphones, automobiles, drones, home appliances, and industrial sensors and actuators. Edge AI has the potential to deliver on some of the long-delayed promises of AI, like more responsive smart assistants, better automotive safety systems, new kinds of robots, even autonomous military machines.
We’re all beginners for the next 20 years…
https://thenextweb.com/news/beginners-guide-to-artificial-intelligence-policy
A beginner’s guide to AI: Policy
Welcome to Neural’s beginner’s guide to AI. This long-running series should provide you with a very basic understanding of what AI is, what it can do, and how it works.
In this edition of the guide, we’ll take a glance at global AI policy.
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https://searchenterpriseai.techtarget.com/tip/10-steps-to-achieve-AI-implementation-in-your-business
10 steps to achieve AI implementation in your business
Maximizing the value of insights into your business, industry and competition requires a thoughtful, creative, experimental, incremental and team approach to deploying AI.
Interesting thoughts. Not sure I see things exactly their way.
https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/25/how-ai-is-changing-the-nature-of-analytics/
How AI is changing the nature of analytics
At its heart, artificial intelligence is an analytics tool. Its value comes from the ability to parse through enormous amounts of data, without direct human supervision, to identify patterns and anomalies that can then be put to use.
But since human-driven analytics have existed for centuries, long predating the modern computer age, how will this new generation of technology change the game? And how can organizations make sure they are getting their money’s worth once this technology is pushed into production environments?
The key element that AI brings to analytics is context, Oracle’s Joey Fitts and MIT research fellow Tom Davenport recently wrote in the Harvard Business Review. Under traditional analytics, the analyst was rarely an expert in the system or process being analyzed. They knew analytics, not marketing or sales or data networking. Their ultimate recommendations often lacked the context that can only come from broad knowledge and experience.
Interact with an AI developed map.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57615408
'Eyes of a machine': How to classify Planet Earth
We are a force of Nature. Humans have reshaped the surface of the Earth to their whim.
Changes that used to occur naturally over hundreds, even thousands of years, can now turn over in a matter of weeks.
One of the ways we've tried to keep track of this relentless recasting of our planet is through the land cover map.
Researchers will take aerial photos or satellite images and categorise the scene below. Where are the grasslands and forests; the roads and buildings; what is water and what is snow or ice?
… The Living Atlas Sentinel-2 2020 Land Cover Map, produced with the assistance of Microsoft, is open source. Anyone can play with it. Take a look at your home area and see how well you think the model did in gauging the different surface types.
Practical AI? Upgrade your old John Deere tractor.
Why driverless tech works for mining and construction but robotaxis aren’t ready, according to SafeAI CEO
Despite the ambitions of Waymo, Cruise, Tesla and others, robotaxis have yet to revolutionize transportation in the U.S., and remain in a state of perpetual technical development. Meanwhile, autonomous vehicles are already at work full-time in heavy industries like mining and construction.
That’s one reason SafeAI founder and CEO Bibhrajit Halder left his autonomous passenger vehicle work behind. The start-up retrofits vehicles and equipment that are already popular in heavy industries – including haul or dump trucks, dozers, and skid steers – with its autonomous systems.
Because I need some of that ‘culture’ stuff…
https://www.bespacific.com/1540-monet-paintings-in-a-two-hour-video/
1540 Monet Paintings in a Two Hour Video
Open Culture – “To know anything about the school of painting called Impressionism, one must know Claude Monet, who gave the movement its name with his painting Impression, Sunrise and provided its method — an almost confrontational relationship with landscape in plein-air. “I have gone back to some things that can’t possibly be done: water, with weeds waving at the bottom,” Monet wrote in a letter to his friend Gustave Geffroy in 1890. “It is a wonderful sight, but it drives one crazy trying to paint it. But that is the kind of thing I am always tackling.” That “kind of thing,” the compulsion to paint nature in motion, required working quickly, repeating the same experiments over and over, despairing of getting it right, producing in the attempt his glorious series of haystacks and water lilies. Monet began painting landscapes upon meeting artist Eugene Boudin, who taught him to paint in open air, and he never stopped, refining his brushstroke for almost seventy years: from his first canvas, 1858’s View from the banks of the Lezade, to his last, The Rose Bush, finished in 1926, the final year of his life…”
Microsoft and the rumor of a free operating system.
Windows 11: Use Microsoft's PC Health Check app to check if your device is compatible. Here's how
The new Windows 11 operating system should be compatible with the vast majority of PCs on the market, according to a Windows blog post published Thursday.
… Follow these steps to test whether your PC meets the system requirements for Windows.
1. Download Microsoft's PC Health Check here. Open the file, agree to the terms of service and click Install. Make sure the box is checked that says Open PC Health Check, and click Finish.
2. The app home page that pops up says "PC health at a glance." At the top, a box reads "Introducing Windows 11." Click Check now.
… If your machine is compatible, you can download the Windows 11 update for free when it becomes available around the 2021 holiday season.
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