What strategy were they following? Clearly not the published one…
Surveillance Scandal Involving U.S. Intelligence Hits Denmark
Morten Butler reports:
Denmark has been rocked by a surveillance scandal in which private citizens’ data was allegedly collected by military intelligence and then shared with foreign powers.
This week, Danes learned that their Defense Intelligence Service, known locally as FE, may have repeatedly broken the law by misleading its watchdog about spying on private individuals.
Read more on Bloomberg News.
Think of facial recognition and hackers pretending to be CFOs. (Please send $1,000,000 to Bob.)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/28/1007746/ai-deepfakes-memes/
Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird
Grace Windheim had heard of deepfakes before. But she had never considered how to make one. It was a viral meme using the technology that led her to research the possibility—and discover that it was super easy and completely free.
Within a day, she had created a step-by-step YouTube tutorial to walk others through the process. “Making one of these deepfakes and overlaying audio is not as complicated as you may think,” she says in the video
… The phenomenon is not surprising; media manipulation tools have often gained traction through play and parody. But it also raises fresh concerns about its potential for abuse.
Medice, cura te ipsum?
Google says it’s going to sell ethics advice to AI companies
… According to a report from Wired, the company is considering launching this ethics consultancy service by the end of the year. Reporter Tom Simonite writes:
Initially, Google will offer others advice on tasks such as spotting racial bias in computer vision systems, or developing ethical guidelines that govern AI projects. Longer term, the company may offer to audit customers’ AI systems for ethical integrity, and charge for ethics advice.
Legal AI. (Interesting photo with this article.)
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/28/what-does-gpt-3-mean-for-the-future-of-the-legal-profession/
What does GPT-3 mean for the future of the legal profession?
One doesn’t have to dig too deep into legal organizations to find people who are skeptical about artificial intelligence.
AI is getting tremendous attention and significant venture capital, but AI tools frequently underwhelm in the trenches. Here are a few reasons why that is and why I believe GPT-3, a beta version of which was recently released by the OpenAI Foundation, might be a game changer in legal and other knowledge-focused organizations.
Perspective. How many square feet would work-from-home spaces total?
Pinterest cancels huge SF office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift
Pinterest terminated a massive 490,000-square-foot lease at San Francisco’s unbuilt 88 Bluxome project, citing a shift toward more remote work amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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