Should have enough camera angles to create a complete 3D animation of the entire event, enough time-stamped data to know exactly what happened, when and at whose instigation. It’s not just facial recognition any more.
Congressional panel investigating Jan. 6 insurrection demands records from Facebook, Twitter, other tech firms
The House select committee investigating the deadly invasion of the Capitol on Jan. 6 said Friday it is demanding a trove of records from 15 social media companies, including Facebook, Twitter, Google and a slew of pro-Trump platforms.
The requests for records stretching back to the spring of 2020 are related to “the spread of misinformation, efforts to overturn the 2020 election or prevent the certification of the results, domestic violent extremism, and foreign influence in the 2020 election,” the committee said in a press release.
First goal: How can we tell when an AI starts going crazy?
https://research.gatech.edu/gtri-georgia-tech-develop-ai-psychiatry-advance-national-security
GTRI, Georgia Tech Develop AI Psychiatry to Advance National Security
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have taken the world by storm, controlling everything from self-driving cars and smart speakers to autonomous weapon-enabled drones. But as these technologies become more advanced, so do their potential security threats.
That is why Chris Roberts, a principal research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Brendan Saltaformaggio, an assistant professor in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), and others have joined forces under GTRI's Graduate Student Fellowship Program to research and develop a new branch of cyber forensics called AI Psychiatry that seeks to keep data more secure in a constantly evolving technological landscape.
… Providing the example of a self-driving car, GTRI's Roberts said that if the vehicle takes a wrong turn or speeds up unexpectedly, investigators could use AI Psychiatry to determine whether the accident was due to a cyberattack or errors in training the AI system. If the accident was caused by a cyberattack, the new forensic capability could help experts patch the vulnerability without losing any of the model's existing training.
Lots of easily removed safeguards?
https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/08/27/smart-thinking-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-europe-s-cities
Smart thinking: a glimpse into the future of Europe's cities
Sometimes popularity can present problems. Before the pandemic, Amsterdam used to get packed with tourists. In 2019, around 20 million people visited the Dutch capital.
While numbers have dropped significantly since then due to the travel restrictions related to the pandemic, concerns about social distancing and a desire to better manage hotspots for the future have led the city to start trialing crowd monitoring technology.
… Cameras and an AI algorithm capture the size, density and direction of crowds. The encrypted data, which cannot be reverse engineered, then appears as a heat map.
… In the Marineterrein, swimmers who do not wish to be filmed can press a button to activate a shutter that closes the camera for 15 minutes.
Another path to AI personhood?
Sony's head of AI research wants to build robots that can win a Nobel Prize
AI and Machine Learning systems have proven a boon to scientific research in a variety of academic fields in recent years. They’ve assisted scientists in identifying genomic markers ripe for cutting-edge treatments, accelerating the discovery of potent new drugs and therapeutics,, and even publishing their own research. Throughout this period, however, AI/ML systems have often been relegated to simply processing large data sets and performing brute force computations, not leading the research themselves.
But Dr. Hiroaki Kitano, CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, has plans for a “hybrid form of science that shall bring systems biology and other sciences into the next stage,” by creating an AI that’s just as capable as today’s top scientific minds. To do so, Kitano seeks to launch the Nobel Turing Challenge and develop a AI smart enough to win itself a Nobel Prize by 2050.
Think of the liability. What can you promise?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/28/ai-apps-skin-cancer-algorithms-darker
Your life in your phone’s hands: can an app really detect cancer?
… “There are many different ways that artificial intelligence can help with triage and decision making to provide support to the physician rather than trying to do their job,” says dermatologist Roxana Daneshjou of Stanford University. “There are opportunities for these algorithms to improve patient care.”
(Related) This will protect your health! (And allow us to track your location, identify everyone you contact and monitor your conversations.)
Implantable AI System Developed for Early Detection and Treatment of Illnesses
TU Dresden scientists at the Chair of Optoelectronics have now succeeded for the first time in developing a bio-compatible implantable AI platform that classifies in real time healthy and pathological patterns in biological signals such as heartbeats. It detects pathological changes even without medical supervision. The research results have now been published in the journal Science Advances.
What motivates lawyers to help the little guy?
Apple developers can't escape the 30% toll, because the lawyers took it
At least 30% of the $100 million developer fund that Apple will create to settle a class action lawsuit will go toward attorneys' fees, the settlement proposal indicates.
Apple on Thursday announced a settlement that would resolve a class action lawsuit levied by a group U.S. developers. In addition to some App Store policy changes, the settlement will also create a $100 million fund to assist small developers. Depending on size and App Store history, developers can claim between $250 to $30,000 from the fund.
Hagens Berman, the law firm representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, is set to take a much bigger cut than any individual app maker. The settlement agreement proposes that the plaintiffs will make a request for attorneys' fees of up to $30 million, paid out from the Small Developer Assistance Fund.
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