There are pros and cons, depending on what information is released and how quickly.
New bill would make some companies report cyberattacks to the government
The bipartisan Cyber Incident Notification Act is a response to the recent attacks on SolarWinds, which impacted government agencies, and Colonial Pipeline, which disrupted access to fuel across a large region of the country. Since then, ransomware attacks — where hackers encrypt files until a victim pays a ransom — have proliferated.
The problem is, under federal law, companies don’t have to report these attacks. That means some attacks may occur without the government knowing, which can have serious implications if the government’s own systems are affected by the hack. [I can only read this as “the government does not know when it has been hacked.” Bob]
Yes, it may be evil, but it’s profitable evil.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/technology/clearview-ai-valuation.html
Clearview AI raises $30 million from investors despite legal troubles.
Clearview AI is currently the target of multiple class-action lawsuits and a joint investigation by Britain and Australia. That hasn’t kept investors away.
The New York-based start-up, which scraped billions of photos from the public internet to build a facial-recognition tool used by law enforcement, closed a Series B round of $30 million this month.
The investors, though undeterred by the lawsuits, did not want to be identified.
Just a reminder: There are far more computers than humans – welcome to the minority.
Justice by Algorithm: Are Artificial Intelligence Risk Assessment Tools Biased Against Minorities?
Conklin, Michael and Wu, Jun, Justice by Algorithm: Are Artificial Intelligence Risk Assessment Tools Biased Against Minorities? (June 30, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3877686 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3877686
“This is a review of Katherine B. Forrest’s new book When Machines Can Be Judge, Jury, and Executioner. The book does an excellent job discussing issues of fairness and racial disparities from the use of artificial intelligence risk assessment tools (hereinafter “AI”) for decisions such as pretrial release and likelihood of recidivism. This is a timely topic as the technology is currently a tipping point. While Europe has begun to implement protections for defendants regarding AI, the U.S. is increasing its reliance on AI without such safeguards. This review includes a discussion on the topics of how AI compares to human judge predictions and decisions, fairness and racial outcomes, how recidivism is frequently misunderstood and its relevance, how human decisions are inextricably intertwined with AI, and the proper understanding of an AI’s “error rate.”
Good question?
https://www.bespacific.com/what-is-legal-innovation/
What Is Legal Innovation?
Sandberg, Haim, What Is Legal Innovation? (March 17, 2021). 2021 University of Illinois Law Review online 63, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3806704
“Technological progress, along with the economic success it brings innovators, has transformed technological innovation into an object of admiration. The law supports and regulates technological and creative innovation in other fields, but is law itself an arena of innovation – of legal innovation? Do the concepts, doctrines, theories and techniques produced by the law encompass innovation? If so, does legal innovation share similar characteristics with other kinds of innovation? Can we learn something about the nature of legal innovation from the general field of innovation research? The legal discipline is more preoccupied with identifying innovation in other areas than in analyzing the characteristics of its own innovations. In this Essay I argue that legal innovation has similar characteristics to innovation in other areas, although it is no less impressive and influential. The phenomenon of legal innovation can and should attract more scientific attention.”
Is this innovation?
As DISCO shares jump, CEO says 'software is coming' to legal sector
E-discovery provider CS Disco Inc made its public debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, with shares jumping more than 28% over their opening price to close at $41.
The Austin-based company, which provides artificial intelligence-powered software for e-discovery, legal document review and case management to corporate legal departments and law firms, listed under the trading symbol "LAW."
"We think that software is coming to the legal function, that software will help automate away a lot of the services that have historically been used by legal departments and law firms," DISCO founder and CEO Kiwi Camara said in an interview as shares began trading Wednesday.
Unfortunately, many IT departments were reluctant to save (or even generate) log data because it was “big data.”
Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations: an Overview
Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) combines sophisticated methods from deep learning, data streaming processing, and domain knowledge to analyse infrastructure data from internal and external sources to automate operations and detect anomalies (unusual system behavior) before they impact the quality of service. Odej Kao, professor at the University of Technology Berlin, gave a keynote presentation about artificial intelligence for IT operations at DevOpsCon Berlin 2021.
Log data is the most powerful source of information, widely available, and can be well-processed by AI-based prediction models, as Kao explained:
Looks like the market remains hot!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-artificial-intelligence-market-expected-112200801.html
The Global Artificial Intelligence Market is expected to grow by $ 13.26 billion during 2021-2025, progressing at a CAGR of almost 47% during the forecast period
Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Global Artificial Intelligence Market in the Industrial Sector 2021-2025" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p04647367/?utm_source=GNW
Are all teachers of English doomed?
Google’s Wordcraft Text Editor Advances Human-AI Collaborative Story Writing
Neural language models are gaining popularity in real-life creative tasks such as text-adventure games, collaborative slogan writing, and even sports journalism, poetry and novel generation. Most such language models however provide limited interaction support for users, as control that goes beyond simple left-to-right text generation requires explicit training.
To address this limitation, a team from Google Research has proposed Wordcraft, a text editor with a built-in AI-powered creative writing assistant. Wordcraft leverages few-shot learning and the natural affordances of conversation to support a variety of user interactions; and can help with story planning, writing and editing.
The Wordcraft web interface comprises a traditional text editor augmented with a number of key commands for triggering requests to the AI assistant. The model is able to sketch a story outline, write the story and even perform editing and rewrites.
Tools & Techniques. (Not hacking tools!)
https://www.makeuseof.com/pdf-password-remover-tools/
6 PDF Password Remover Tools to Unlock PDF Files
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