Implications beyond Jan 6th. How do we protect a President? What of texts between lawyers or police investigating a shooting?
The Secret Service’s missing text messages: Lessons for IT security
The drama in Washington shines a light on the challenges in securing mobile communications and the role that document destruction and retention policies play in organizational security.
Today foreigners, tomorrow the world.
Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK
Migrants who have been convicted of a criminal offence will be required to scan their faces up to five times a day using smartwatches installed with facial recognition technology under plans from the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice.
In May, the government awarded a contract to the British technology company Buddi Limited to deliver “non-fitted devices” to monitor “specific cohorts” as part of the Home Office Satellite Tracking Service. The scheme is due to be introduced from the autumn across the UK, at an initial cost of £6m.
Are we all in agreement that this is the only way to confirm or deny that an AI is sentient?
Stanford AI experts call BS on claims that Google’s LaMDA chatbot is sentient
… The episode triggered sensationalist headlines and speculation that AI is gaining consciousness. AI experts, however, have largely dismissed Lemoine’s argument.
The Stanford duo this week shared further criticisms with The Stanford Daily.
“LaMDA is not sentient for the simple reason that it does not have the physiology to have sensations and feelings,” said John Etchemendy, the co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-centered AI (HAI). “It is a software program designed to produce sentences in response to sentence prompts.”
Somehow I don’t see this lowering the cost of textbooks. And any resale value is now shared with Pearson?
Educational publisher Pearson will sell textbooks as non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
UK Guardian: “Textbook publisher Pearson plans to profit from secondhand sales by turning its titles into non-fungible tokens (NFTs), its chief executive has said. Educational books are often sold more than once, since students sell study resources they no longer require. Publishers have not previously been able to make any money from secondhand sales, but the rise of digital textbooks has created an opportunity for companies to benefit. NFTs confer ownership of a unique digital item by recording it on a decentralised digital register known as a blockchain. Typically these items are images or videos, but the technology allows for just about anything to be sold and owned in this way. After the release of Pearson’s interim results, CEO Andy Bird explained his plan to sell digital textbooks as NFTs, allowing the publisher to track the ownership of a book even when it changes hands, Bloomberg reported. “In the analogue world, a Pearson textbook was resold up to seven times, and we would only participate in the first sale,” he said, explaining that “technology like blockchain and NFTs allows us to participate in every sale of that particular item as it goes through its life”…
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