We don’t need to gather data about you if you volunteer all the data we want.
License Plate Readers Use Footage From Ring, Smartphones And ATMs To ID Vehicles
Joe Cadillic writes:
Flock Safety’s license plate readers can now ID vehicles from any camera source. Basically, Flock Safety has turned every camera in the country into potential license plate readers.
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Flock Safety claims to care about the privacy of people living in HOA’s and neighborhood associations. All residents have to do to protect their privacy, is email their home address and license plate number to Flock Safety’s “Safe List” and click the “remove my vehicles from footage” box.
“The Safe List allows footage captured of your vehicle to be marked as resident. This way, if a crime happens in your neighborhood and your HOA or trusted neighbor needs to look through Flock footage, they can filter out all known residents in their search. This keeps your vehicle out of the search.”
The problem with Flock Safety’s “Safe List” is two-fold…..
Read more on MassPrivateI.
It’s not perfect, but it is better than nothing.
https://www.bespacific.com/8-easy-ways-to-stay-anonymous-online/
8 Easy Ways to Stay Anonymous Online
PC Magazine: “…There are always going to be good reasons for people to go online without being tracked. For one, anonymity may be the only way for a real whistleblower to reveal corruption, considering how some have been treated. But there’s nothing wrong with wanting to stay anonymous, no matter what you’re doing. Is it even possible to take control of your own personal privacy online? Ultimately, the only way to stay truly anonymous online is…not to go online at all. That’s not a real option for most of us, though. Here’s a rundown of what you can do to minimize spying, targeted ads, and ID theft as you explore the online world…”
Will we learn to speak dolphin? Has Facebook been training this AI on speech it recorded from its users without their knowledge?
Facebook AI Introduces GSLM (Generative Spoken Language Model), A Textless NLP Model That Breaks Free Completely of The Dependence on Text for Training
The recent advancements in text-based language models, such as BERT, RoBERTa, and GPT-3, have been extremely impressive. Because they can generate realistically written words from a given input, these models can be utilized for various natural language processing applications, including sentiment analysis translation information retrieval inferences summarization, among others using only a few labels or examples (e.g., BART and XLM R). However, these applications have a major limitation: the models are only suitable for languages with very large text data sets.
Facebook AI has introduced the first high-performance NLP model, called Generative Spoken Language Model (GSLM), which leverages state-of-the-art representation learning to work with raw audio signals without labels or text. This can lead to a new era of textless applications for any language spoken on earth, even those without significant text data sets. By using GSLM, you can develop NLP models that incorporate the full range of expressivity found in spoken language.
Perspective.
Gartner: AI is moving fast and will be ready for prime time sooner than you think
Users want more than artificial intelligence can provide at the moment but those capabilities are changing fast, according to Gartner's Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence 2021 report. Gartner analysts described 34 types of AI technologies in the report and also noted that the AI hype cycle is more fast-paced, with an above-average number of innovations reaching mainstream adoption within two to five years.
… Gartner analysts Shubhangi Vashisth and Svetlana Sicular wrote the report and identified these four AI mega trends:
Companies are looking to operationalize AI platforms to enable reusability, scalability and governance and speed up AI adoption and growth. AI orchestration and automation platforms (AIOAPs) and model operationalization (ModelOps) reflect this trend.
Innovation in AI means efficient use of all resources, including data, models and compute. Multi-experience AI, composite AI, generative AI and transformers are examples of this trend.
Responsible AI includes explainable AI, risk management and AI ethics for increased trust, transparency, fairness and auditability of AI initiatives.
Small and wide data approaches enable more robust analytics and AI, reduce organizations' dependency on big data and deliver more complete situational awareness.
Perspective. Maybe Brazil isn’t the only place with a law like this/ (See yesterdays Blog) Of course these companies could simply cut Texas out of their services for the next election cycle.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/09/govgregabbott-social-media-censorship-bill/
Texas governor signs bill prohibiting social media giants from blocking users based on viewpoint
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Thursday signed a bill that would prohibit large tech companies from blocking or restricting people or their posts based on their viewpoint, setting the stage for a legal battle with the tech industry.
The law applies to social media companies with more than 50 million monthly active users in the United States, including Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube, and requires them to create reports on any illegal or potentially policy-violating content, as well as build a complaint system, where people could challenge companies’ decisions to remove content or flag illegal activity. Individuals and the state attorney general could file lawsuits if they believe that the tech companies wrongfully banned them from their platforms.
“It is now law that conservative viewpoints in Texas cannot be banned on social media,” Abbott said. Conservatives have long claimed without evidence that Silicon Valley social media companies are censoring them based on their political affiliation. The companies deny those accusations.
Perspective. It must be hard to get and keep employees.
Amazon to cover 100% of college tuition for U.S. hourly employees
Amazon said Thursday it will offer to pay 100% of college tuition for its 750,000 U.S. hourly employees.
The e-commerce giant is following the lead of other large U.S. companies that are dangling perks such as education benefits or more pay to woo workers in a tight job market.
Starting in January, Amazon said, it will cover the cost of college tuition, fees and textbooks for hourly employees in its operations network after 90 days of employment. It will also begin covering high school diploma programs, GEDs and English as a second language certifications for employees.
… As the job market has grown more competitive, Amazon is ramping up incentives to lure workers. In some areas of the country, Amazon is offering sign-on bonuses for new employees worth up to $3,000.
Learning, for fun or profit.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/linkedin-free-courses/419250/#close
LinkedIn Makes 35+ Learning Courses Free For a Month
… A one month trial of the LinkedIn Learning Hub can be redeemed starting today until October 9.
The courses touch on subjects such as ways to support your team through hybrid work, cultivating well-being during difficult times, and being a manager everyone wants to work for.
… The courses available in LinkedIn’s Learning hub are geared toward job seekers, managers, and HR professionals.
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