Something my students will have to address.
Boardrooms
Are Still Not Singing the Security Song
Despite
all indications that cybersecurity is now 'top of mind' for company
boardrooms, less than 50% of companies have a CISO position with a
seat at the board. Boardrooms have learned all the words and they
know all the notes, but they've never quite learned to sing the song.
This
figure and others come from a November 2018 survey (PDF),
conducted by Vanson Bourne and commissioned by Thycotic. It queried
200 CISOs in the UK and Germany from largely mid-size companies in
both the public and private sector with at least 1,000 employees.
Thycotic's chief security scientist and advisory CISO, Joseph Carson,
believes the issues raised will affect most CISOs throughout the
world.
… The
board is still seeing cybersecurity as something that is reactive and
a cost rather than something that is an innovation or a business
strategy."
More
than 60% of the respondents believe senior management considers their
role to be basically defensive and protective. Only 37% believe
management sees them as a business-positive force, enabling secure
growth and gaining competitive advantage.
(Related)
Something to stimulate conversation.
WEF2019
Global Risk Report Ranks Cyber Attacks Among Most Likely Global
Threats
… The WEF2019 global
risk report has named cyber attacks and data breaches as the
fourth and fifth most serious risks facing the world, the second year
in a row in which these threats have been present in the top five.
For our self-driving car debate. (They need to
come up with a more driver-friendly headline.)
Robot
valets will drag your car into a parking spot at UK airport
In August, the U.K. airport will begin a
three-month-long
pilot program in which robots
codenamed “Stan” park travelers’ cars for them — and if
all goes well with the trial, the bots could become a common sight in
parking lots across the globe.
According to a planning
application submitted to the Crawley Borough Council by the
Gatwick Airport, a driver will park their car in one of eight newly
built cabins and summon a Stan via a nearby touchscreen before
catching a shuttle to the airport terminal.
A Stan will roll to the front of the car and lift
the vehicle up, similarly to how a forklift lifts a pallet. The bot
will then ferry the car to one of 270 available parking spaces. The
robot valet service knows each passenger’s flight info and will
retrieve their car when they return to the Gatwick Airport, placing
it in one of the cabins for pick-up.
For our AI debate.
Artificial
intelligence will become the next new human right
… it was back in 2016 that the United Nations
decreed Internet access should be considered a basic right.
While a non-binding premise, the UN still
considers deliberate Internet disruption as a human rights violation.
… The Salesforce CEO said that AI is becoming
a "new human right" at the World Economic Forum in
Switzerland this week, as reported
by Business Insider.
In the same way that Internet access prompted what
is known as the "Digital
Divide" -- the 'have' and 'have nots' when it comes to
reliable, stable Internet services depending on location and economic
levels – AI is also expected to create a similar separation.
According to Benioff, AI is going to become a
service which everyone will need. Countries and companies alike will
be "smarter," "healthier," and "richer"
if they have AI, whereas those without will be "weaker and
poorer, less educated and sicker," the publication reports.
Toward our goal of replacing all the lawyers?
Legal AI –
Its Definition and Its Value to the Legal World
Artificial
Lawyer – “‘AI’ is an awkward term. Just as ‘technology’
can mean everything from cave persons shaping flints to make
spearheads, to the first electric toasters of the early 20th century,
to quantum computing today, the term ‘AI’ also has a broad remit.
Some flippantly say it means ‘any technology that is new’,
others tend to feel it must mean some sort of ‘human-like machine’,
and others may think in prosaic terms of ‘a computer that can
think’. Unfortunately, this doesn’t really help us in the legal
world and the latter two ideas are way too ambitious as definitions
compared to what we actually have in the real world of early 2019.
Doc review software using natural language processing (NLP) that has
been improved with machine learning (ML) is all there is to it.
Software, useful software,
that’s all it is. Labelling anything ‘legal AI’ is
clearly open to interpretation, but, many people who work in this
area use the term in confidence and know what they mean. In which
case, let’s stick with it.
OK then, but…..what does it mean? To Artificial
Lawyer it primarily means using NLP and ML to achieve a
cognitive task, such as reading a text, spotting certain
semantic features, and then telling the user what it has found. That
is it. This core legal AI capability can be harnessed to other
software, such as expert systems, for example, (i.e. rules-based
logic trees) and workflow automation tools, to become more effective.
And, when you start to think through the broader ramifications of
software that can read and respond in an automated manner….well….then
you start to see that this may be a narrow ‘skill’, but its
applicability is very broad – especially in the text-based world of
the law…”
Perspective.
Automation
and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and
places
At first, technologists issued dystopian alarms
about the power of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to
destroy jobs. Then came a correction, with a wave of reassurances.
Now, the discourse appears to be arriving at a more complicated
understanding, suggesting that automation will bring neither
apocalypse nor utopia, but instead both benefits and stress alike.
Such is the ambiguous and sometimes disembodied nature of the “future
of work” discussion.
Hence the analysis presented here. Intended to
bring often-inscrutable trends down to earth, the following report
develops both backward and forward-looking analyses of the impacts of
automation over the years 1980 to 2016 and 2016 to 2030 to assess
past and upcoming trends as they affect both people and communities
in the United States.
Python now, more languages soon. (Still free!)
Kite raises
$17 million for its AI-powered developer environment
Kite, which suggests code snippets for Python
developers in real time, has raised $17 million in a series A round
led by Trinity Ventures. The latest version of the free developer
tool no longer relies on the cloud, meaning it runs locally, and it
adds a nifty feature called Line-of-Code Completions.
For our programmers…
… The good news is that top tier companies
have become enthusiasts. So start tracking these coding challenges
for money or jobs and grab that career breakthrough today.
For the next Math class.
Learning
Math For Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence Programming
Last year, I started writing about my experiences
taking courses
on machine learning and artificial intelligence. One of the big,
unexpected problems I ran into was calculus and linear algebra. I've
found that many online courses say you don't need much mathematics
fundamentals to be a programmer, but inevitably, even in beginner
courses, the underlying math was important to understand what was
going on.
… After spending a lot of time online trying
to sort through this haystack of do-it-yourself calculus blogs,
college class PDFs, and other resources, I came away with two
websites that were outstanding for teaching basic calculus and linear
algebra: Khan Academy and an on-demand tutoring service called Yup.
Top up your toolkit!
An
introduction to tools for creating infographics, timelines and other
data visualizations
Jess
Rios – Harvard Law School Library – “Particularly when we
talk about large numbers, it can be difficult to fully understand
their impact. With an ever-increasing amount of data and information
available to us, data visualization is becoming more important to
help people truly understand the meaning of the information that is
collected. Whether you are teaching in a classroom or presenting in
front of clients, the ability to distill and contextualize data is
one that will set you apart and the tools in this guide will help you
to do just that.
- If you are new to the world of data visualization and want an overview, try Lynda.com’s Data Visualization Fundamentals tutorial.
- Looking for media to use in your visualization? Try the resources on our guide to public domain and Creative Commons media.
- Do you want to incorporate your data visualization into a presentation? Check out our guide to presentation tools…”
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