A private face?
Facebook is
ordered to hand over data about thousands of apps that may have
violated user privacy
A Massachusetts judge has ordered Facebook to turn
over data about thousands of apps that may have mishandled its users’
personal information, rejecting the tech company’s earlier attempts
to withhold the key details from state investigators. The decision
amounted to a significant victory for Massachusetts Attorney General
Maura Healey who said that Facebook users — and local watchdogs —
“have a right to know”
whether their privacy has been violated.
Another privacy concern to add to future privacy
acts?
AP reports:
Florida lawmakers advanced a proposal Thursday that would bar life insurers from using information from commercially available genetic tests to deny policies or set premiums based on markers that might be discovered through DNA home kits.
The effort comes amid the booming popularity of heavily marketed genetic testing and the rising concerns from privacy groups and lawmakers.
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more on Shelton
Herald.
(Related)
LEAK:
Commission considers facial recognition ban in AI ‘white paper’
The
European Commission is considering measures to impose a temporary ban
on facial recognition technologies used by both public and private
actors, according to a draft white paper on Artificial Intelligence
obtained
by
EURACTIV.
Interesting question.
Why Twitter
May Be Ruinous for the Left
It’s a machine
for misunderstanding other people’s ideas and identities. How do
you even organize that?
Architecture.
Want
optimized AI? Rethink your storage infrastructure and data pipeline
Most discussions of AI infrastructure start and
end with compute hardware — the GPUs, general-purpose CPUs, FPGAs,
and tensor processing units responsible for training complex
algorithms and making predictions based on those models. But AI also
demands a lot from your storage. Keeping a potent compute engine
well-utilized requires feeding it with vast amounts of information as
fast as possible. Anything less and you clog the works and create
bottlenecks.
Optimizing an AI solution for capacity and cost,
while scaling for growth, means taking a fresh look at its data
pipeline. Are you ready to ingest petabytes worth of legacy, IoT,
and sensor data? Do your servers have the read/write bandwidth for
data preparation? Are they ready for the randomized access patterns
involved in training?
Answering those questions now will help determine
your organization’s AI-readiness.
Yeah… No!
Life will
soon be like ‘Her’ — and we’ll fall in love with AI
… Dr. Maciej Musial from the University of
Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan, Poland has pointed out that people will
soon fall into the arms of humanoid robots and artificial
intelligence apps on our smartphones. The evidence of this can be
found in the fact that people are already seen growing attached to
their gadgets such as smartphones. The research further suggested
that a new phenomenon becoming frequent is the underlying formation
of emotional relationships between humans and artificial intelligence
under different disguises.
… David Hanson, who created the famous
lifelike Sophia Robot recently revealed that humans are only a few
decades away from marrying droids. There is already the kind of
robot in the world today that overcome the bridge of intimacy, which
is required for a deep emotional partnership. The
researcher suggests that humanoids will get the same rights as humans
by the year 2045. This would include the right to own
land, vote in general elections, and even marry.
Hanson also suggests that by the year 2035, robots
will be able to accomplish almost everything that humans do. They
might even start their own ‘Global Robotic Civil Rights Moments’
by 2038 and compel leaders to provide them with equal status in the
human world.
AI for the defense? Why “cute?”
This
Company Made a 'Cute' AI Lawyer to Deploy 'Information Warfare' for
Divorced Men
A man who feels wronged by his ex-wife thinks he
can help ex-husbands everywhere with an artificially intelligent
legal assistant that collects public court records to help clients
file lawsuits and predicts what the opposing legal team will do next.
He also gave this piece of software a female
avatar, a woman in a pencil skirt and heels he named Justine Falcon.
For the toolkit.
Microsoft
Introduces Free Source Code Analyzer
Called Microsoft Application Inspector, the new
tool doesn’t focus on discovering poor programming practices in the
analyzed code. Instead, it looks for interesting features and
metadata, such as cryptography, connections to remote resources, and
the underlying platform.
… Application
Inspector was released in open source and is available for download
from Microsoft’s GitHub
repository.
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