Subtle, but something. Not sure this was a very important database.
Probably more like a list of shipping in the Gulf.
US Waged
Cyberattack on Database Used by Iran to Target Tankers: NY Times
The United States staged a secret cyberattack in
June against a database used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps to plot attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf, The New York Times
reported.
The newspaper, quoting senior US officials, said
the June 20 attack had degraded the ability of Iran's paramilitary
force to target shipping in the Gulf.
… It said the database targeted in the attack
was used by the Guards to choose which tankers to target.
Too late to avoid a GDPR fine?
Apple
Apologizes for Listening to Siri Talk, Sets New Rules
Apple on Wednesday apologized for its digital
assistant Siri sharing some of what it heard with quality control
workers as it unveiled new rules for handling data from
conversations.
Under the changes, Apple will allow its employees
to review conversations only from customers who opt into the "Siri
grading" program to improve the voice recognition technology.
Apple will also delete by default any recordings used for the
program.
"We realize we haven't been fully living up
to our high ideals, and for that we apologize," Apple said in a
post.
… If customers opt in, only Apple employees
will be allowed to listen to audio samples of Siri interactions and
they will "work to
delete any recording which is determined to be an inadvertent
trigger" of the voice-commanded digital assistant,
according to the company.
A bit too optimistic?
Jack
Ma says 12-hour work week could be the norm when AI benefits kick in
Billionaire Jack Ma, long an outspoken advocate
for China's extreme work culture, says that people should be able to
work just 12 hours a week with the benefits of artificial
intelligence.
People could work as little as three days a week,
four hours a day with the help of technology advances and a reform in
education systems, the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd co-founder said at
the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Thursday
(Aug 29).
Ma cited electricity as an example of how
developments in technology can free up time for leisure.
How to automate lawyering?
A Primer on
Using Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Profession
LexBlog
– A
Primer on Using Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Profession:
“What’s artificial intelligence (“AI”) and why should
lawyers care about it? On a practical level, lawyers should be aware
that software
powered by AI already carries out legal tasks.
Within a few years, AI will be taking over (or at least affecting) a
significant amount of work now done by lawyers. Thirty-nine
percent of in-house counsel” expect
that AI will be commonplace in legal work within ten years. On a
more philosophical level, lawyers
should understand that the “decisions” made by AI-powered
software will raise significant legal questions,
including those of tort liability and of criminal guilt. For
example, if AI is controlling a driverless car and someone’s killed
in an accident, who’s
at fault?
While the philosophical questions are important to resolve, this
Comment will focus on the practical issues. To provide an overview
of what AI is and how it will be used in the legal profession, this
Comment addresses several questions…”
How not to automate lawyering?
Lawyering
Somewhere Between Computation and the Will to Act: A Digital Age
Reflection
Lipshaw,
Jeffrey M., Lawyering Somewhere Between Computation and the Will to
Act: A Digital Age Reflection (August 5, 2019). Legal Studies
Research Paper Series Research Paper 19-21 August 5, 2019. Available
at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3432635
or
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3432635
“This is a
reflection on machine and human contributions to lawyering in the
digital age. Increasingly capable machines can already unleash
massive processing power on vast stores of discovery and research
data to assess relevancies and, at times, to predict legal outcomes.
At the same time, there is wide acceptance, at least among legal
academics, of the conclusions from behavioral psychology that slow,
deliberative “System 2” thinking (perhaps replicated
computationally) needs to control the heuristics and biases to which
fast, intuitive “System 1” thinking is prone. Together, those
trends portend computational deliberation – artificial intelligence
or machine learning – substituting for human thinking in more and
more of a lawyer’s professional functions. Yet, unlike machines,
human lawyers are self-reproducing automata. They can perceive
purposes and have a will to act that cannot be reduced to mere
third-party scientific explanation. For all its power, computational
intelligence is unlikely to evolve intuition, insight, creativity,
and the will to change the objective world, characteristics as human
as System 1 thinking’s heuristics and biases. We therefore need to
be circumspect about the extent to which we privilege System 2-like
deliberation (particularly that which can be replicated
computationally) over uniquely human contributions to lawyering:
those mixed blessings like persistence, passion, and the occasional
compulsiveness.
May become
more useful in the future.
Partnership
on AI’s Terah Lyons talks ethics washing, moonshots, and power
There’s
no organization in the world quite like the Partnership
on AI.
Formed
in September 2016 by a coalition of the largest tech companies in AI
— Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft — it is a
nonprofit organization that advises corporations and governments on
AI policy and seeks to answer big
questions about
the future, like how AI will influence the economy and society and
how best to make safety-critical or transparent AI systems. Of the
more
than 100 notable organizations active
on five continents that compose the Partnership, more than half are
human rights groups like Amnesty International, Future of Life
Institute, and GLAAD. They sit alongside some of the world’s most
influential tech companies, think tanks, and other organizations.
It’s
all statistics and other math.
Former
MLB Pitcher’s DC Startup Lands $23M for Sports Betting Platform
Ex-MLB pitcher
Michael Schwimer’s new District-based venture, Jambos Picks, brings
a machine learning-based approach to sports betting by analyzing
public and commercial data sets.
… The
service’s most noteworthy feature is a bold guarantee: Picks
will be profitable or bettors will get their subscription fee back,
plus additional money.
The discounts
vary depending on subscription length. The full 17-week plan costs
$3,000 and has a $10,000 refund if the picks don’t make money
overall. But you’ll need to bet a lot.
For example,
on a $3,000 subscription including 1,000 recommended bets, you would
receive $10,000 back if you followed the Jambos method – $300-plus
bets – and did not profit.
Is it worth
$5? (iPhone & iPad only)
Quickly
and easily search case citations using your camera
Your
Legal Helper powered by Google Scholar–
Why Opinion Minion:
- Speed – In a time-pressed court room, you don’t have time to go to the internet and type in a case citation. Opinion Minion takes you right to the case you need!
- Text-Recognition – Opinion Minion utilizes text-recognition software and a custom algorithm to identify case citations.
- Accessibility – Opinion Minion is powered by Google Scholar, so all of your starred cases are automatically shared across all of your devices connected to Google…”
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