Was
weak security a deliberate choice? Have they already pulled out the
money they “saved?” If they did, is there any way to get that
money back?
AMCA
Breach: Many More Impacted Healthcare Firms Come Forward
Many
more healthcare companies in the United States published press
releases last week to inform customers that they had been impacted by
the data breach suffered by the American Medical Collection Agency
(AMCA).
All
of the organizations used the same
press release template,
with the only difference being the number of impacted patients and
the phone number that people can call for more details.
… The
breach at AMCA, which is also known as Retrieval-Masters Creditors
Bureau, came to light in early June when two of its biggest
customers, Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, filed 8-K forms with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
… AMCA,
which faces several class actions, revealed in mid-June that the
breach had already cost it millions of dollars and announced that it
had filed for Chapter 11
bankruptcy and laid off most of its workforce.
The
company’s investigation into the incident revealed that the hackers
may have had access to its systems since as early as August 2018.
The breach was discovered only in March 2019 after AMCA was informed
that many payment cards used on its web portal had been used for
fraudulent charges.
Investigators
could not determine exactly which individuals were impacted so it had
to be assumed that everyone who had information stored on AMCA
servers was hit.
What
would you call an AI that specialized in the law? Moses? Perry?
“J.D.?”
Law
Librarians: The Missing Link As Solo & Small Firm Lawyers Adapt
to Artificial Intelligence
MyShingle
– Nicole Black:
“Earlier this week, I lead a roundtable discussion on Artificial
Intelligence in Legal Research and Law Practice at the American
Association of Law Librarians (AALL)
which took place in Washington D.C. I was grateful for the
invitation from @robtruman,
the law librarian at the Lewis & Clark Law School because the
event forced me to review all of the posts on AI and law practice
that I’ve been meaning to read and because any opportunity to talk
about AI – which is the work that my
husband studied
back in grad school in the late ‘80s before the subject was ready
for prime time – is always a privilege. In this post, I’ll share
some of the information in AI that I gathered in preparation for my
talk. One of MyShingle’s missions has always been to ensure that
solo and small firms have current information not just on new
technology developments but also on how those new tools can be
applied in practice. And because AI is such a fast-moving target
that many solo and small firm lawyers haven’t yet had a chance to
wrap their heads around, I’ve written
a multi-part post that will cover everything that solo and small firm
lawyers need to know…”
If
healthcare is so far behind other industries, how many of these are
in general use elsewhere?
A
revolution: 10 use cases of artificial intelligence in healthcare
I
wonder which SciFi model they have selected?
Microsoft
wants to build artificial general intelligence: an AI better than
humans at everything
A
lot of startups in the San Francisco Bay Area claim that they’re
planning to transform the world. San-Francisco-based, Elon
Musk-founded OpenAI has a stronger claim than most: It wants to build
artificial general
intelligence (AGI), an AI system that has, like humans,
the capacity to reason across different domains and apply its skills
to unfamiliar problems.
Today,
it announced a billion
dollar partnership with Microsoft to
fund its work — the latest sign that AGI research is leaving the
domain of science fiction and entering the realm of serious research.
… Others
warn that, if poorly designed, it could
be a catastrophe for humans in
a few
different ways.
A sufficiently advanced AI could pursue
a goal that we hadn’t intended —
a recipe for catastrophe. It could turn out unexpectedly
impossible to
correct once running. Or it could be maliciously used by a small
group of people to harm others. Or it could just make the rich
richer and leave the rest of humanity even further in the dust.
… Current
AI systems are vulnerable to adversarial
examples —
inputs designed to confuse them — and more advanced systems might
be, too. Current systems faithfully do what
we tell them to do, even if it’s not exactly what we meant them to
do.
And
there are some reasons to think advanced systems will have problems
that current systems don’t. Some researchers
have argued that
an AGI system that appears to be performing well at a small scale
might unexpectedly deteriorate in performance when it has more
resources available to it, as the best route to achieving its goals
changes.
Not sure I look like a classic, but I feel like an
‘old master.’
This
website uses AI to turn your selfies into haunted classical portraits
Bored
of using AI to age yourself into a desiccated husk? Why not use it
to turn your selfies into harrowing but artistic portraits instead?
Head over to aiportraits.com.
home
of a fun little widget built by researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI
Lab, and upload a photo to try out an artistic transformation for
yourself.
The
site uses an algorithm trained on 45,000 classical portraits to
render your face in faux oil, watercolor, or ink. There’s a huge
number of styles included in this database, covering artists from
Rembrandt to Titian to van Gogh, with each input producing a unique
portrait.
Where,
but not how well.
Here’s
where the US government is using facial recognition technology to
surveil Americans
A
new map shows how widespread the use of facial recognition technology
is.
Social
lawyers? Please.
Reconciling
Social Media and Professional Norms for Lawyers, Judges, and Law
Professors
McPeak,
Agnieszka, The
Internet Made Me Do It:
Reconciling Social Media and Professional Norms for Lawyers, Judges,
and Law Professors (May 1, 2019). Idaho Law Review, Vol. 55, No. 2,
2019. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3418088
“Social media platforms operate under their own
social order. Design decisions and policies set by platforms steer
user behavior. Additionally, members of online communities set
informal expectations that form a unique set of norms. These social
media norms—like oversharing, disinhibition, and anonymity—become
common online, even though similar conduct might be shunned in the
real world. For lawyers,
judges, and law professors, a different set of norms apply to both
their online and offline conduct. Legal ethics rules,
codes of judicial conduct, workplace policies, and general
professionalism expectations dictate behavior for legal
professionals. Collectively, these professional norms set a higher
bar—one that fundamentally clashes with ever-evolving social media
norms. This conflict between social media and professional norms
must be reconciled in order for lawyers, judges, and law professors
to avoid online missteps. This essay examines the clash between the
norms of social media conduct with the constraints of professional
norms. By doing so, it hopes to help lawyers, judges, and law
professors reconcile their real-world roles with their online
behavior and offers some guidance for maintaining professionalism
across the board.”
Where would this work? Small University town?
Retirement village?
Uber tests
monthly subscription that combines Eats, rides, bikes and scooters
… Uber is testing a few different iterations
in San Francisco and Chicago, but each version includes a fixed
discount on every ride, free Uber Eats delivery and free JUMP (bikes
and scooters) rides. The pass costs $24.99 per month.
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