Perspective.
16 DDoS
attacks take place every 60 seconds, rates reach 622 Gbps
DDoS
attacks are aimed at disrupting online services. A flood of
illegitimate traffic is generated by PCs, Internet of Things (IoT),
and other devices which send request after request, and these queries
eventually overwhelm a service. users are then unable to get
through. There are different forms of DDoS that target particular
aspects of a service, but resource exhaustion and HTTP floods tend to
be common.
Black
boxes? Are the algorithms subject to FOIA?
Report
on Artificial Intelligence in Federal Agencies
Washington,
D.C., Stanford, Calif., and New York, February 18, 2020 — The
Administrative
Conference of the United States (ACUS),
Stanford
Law School,
and New
York University School of Law are
pleased
to announce the release of a major report exploring
federal agencies’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) to carry out
administrative law functions. This is the most comprehensive study
of the subject ever conducted in the United States. The report,
entitled Government
by Algorithm:
Artificial
Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies,
examines the growing role that machine learning and other AI
technologies are playing in federal agency adjudication, enforcement,
and other regulatory activities. Based on a wide-ranging survey of
federal agency activities and interviews with federal officials, the
report maps current uses of AI technologies in federal agencies,
highlights promising uses, and addresses challenges in assuring
accountability, transparency, and non-discrimination. Stanford Law
School Professors David
Freeman Engstrom and
Daniel
Ho,
NYU
Law Professor Catherine
Sharkey,
and
California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino
Cuéllar served
as principal advisors on the report. They received research
assistance from 30 Stanford law, computer science, and engineering
students, and five NYU Law students, who participated in the Spring
2019 Stanford policy lab, Administering
by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in the Regulatory State.
Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence,
with which Engstrom, Ho, and Cuéllar are affiliated, also provided
seed funding for the report…”
A
flipped classroom tool? Would videos be more interesting to my
students than articles like this one?
Quickly
Turn Articles Into Videos With InVideo
This
morning I was browsing Product
Hunt when
I saw a new product that was promoting itself as a way to create
"insanely good social videos." The service is called
InVideo.
While it is fairly easy to use to make audio slideshow-style videos,
that's not why I'm mentioning it today. The reason I'm mentioning it
is that contains a
feature to convert written articles into videos.
InVideo
offers
lots of tools and templates for making audio slideshow videos to
share on social media and elsewhere. One of those tools lets you
copy the text of an article into a template then have InVideo
automatically select images to match the text of the article. A
similar InVideo template lets you enter the URL of an article and
have a video made with images that are automatically selected to make
the text of the article. In both cases parts of the text appear on
the slides with the images. And in both cases you can manually
override the automatic image selections.
When
your InVideo video is complete you can download it for free
with a watermark applied to it. Alternatively, you can
invite other people to join InVideo and the watermark is removed. Or
you can purchase an InVideo subscription to have all watermarks
removed.
InVideo
probably
isn't a tool that students can use because it does require a phone
number in order to sign up. That said, it could be useful for
teachers who want to provide their students with a visual summary of
the key points of a long passage of text.
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