Why not a cheerful study for a change?
Cybercriminals Can Breach 93% Of Company Networks and Trigger Unacceptable Events in Under a Month, Study Finds
A new study by Positive Technologies found that cybercriminals could breach 93% of company networks and trigger 71% of unacceptable events within a month.
The tractor as Terminator? Worth reading carefully.
https://www.wired.com/story/john-deere-self-driving-tractor-stirs-debate-ai-farming/
John Deere's Self-Driving Tractor Stirs Debate on AI in Farming
The automation, and control of the resulting data, raise questions about the role of human farmers.
DEERE & CO. helped mechanize agriculture in 1837 with the first commercially successful steel plow. On Tuesday, the company unveiled a machine that could prove just as transformative: a fully autonomous tractor.
John Deere’s new 8R tractor uses six pairs of stereo cameras and advanced artificial intelligence to perceive its environment and navigate. It can find its way to a field on its own when given a route and coordinates, then plow the soil or sow seeds without instructions, avoiding obstacles as it goes. A farmer can give the machine new orders using a smartphone app.
… “It's a monumental shift,” says Jahmy Hindman, Deere’s chief technology officer, of the new machine, revealed at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. “I think it's every bit as big as the transition from horse to tractor.”
… Hindman says the system will gather data about the soil as it toils away. That information will be used to tweak its algorithms, helping to improve performance and provide farmers with new insights on how to best work their land.
That troubles some farmer advocates and students of agriculture. Christopher Kitts, a professor who runs a field robotics program at Santa Clara University and studies agricultural automation, says the data collected by autonomous tractors could be so useful to farmers that Deere could charge extra to access it. It might also make it harder for rivals to compete.
… Ultimately, Kenney says, Deere may not even need farmers, dispatching autonomous tractors to manage large-scale “robotic farms.”
… But Hindman agrees that the farmer is no longer inextricably tied to his equipment. “We've now figured out how to decouple the labor from the machine,” he says. Unlike in the days of the plow, the farmer is not even strictly necessary.
What regulation is useful, what regulation is impossible…
China rolls out new regulation to rein in algorithms used on apps as Beijing continues to clip wings of Big Tech firms
China is rolling out a new regulation to rein in algorithms used on apps to recommend what consumers would like to read, watch, play and buy online, marking Beijing’s latest effort to bring the country’s Big Tech sector firmly in line with state policies.
The regulation, which was published on Tuesday, will take effect on March 1. It was jointly drawn up by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR).
App operators who extensively use algorithm recommendation in their platforms – including e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, social media and video gaming market leader Tencent Holdings, TikTok owner ByteDance and on-demand delivery services provider Meituan – are directed by the new regulation to “promote positive energy” and allow consumers to decline personalised recommendations generated by their services. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
https://bdtechtalks.com/2022/01/04/individual-artificial-intelligence/
Individual artificial intelligence: A new technology that will change our world
“Our consciousness is everything. You become what you think about.” Buddha
In the few minutes that you are reading this article, I will tell you about a completely new type of artificial intelligence, I will name the design features and advantages, I will outline the immediate prospects and possible long-term consequences of the introduction of this technology into real life. Together we will touch the future.
I feel lazy, I’ve only read one of these.
https://www.businessinsider.com/5-books-mit-says-you-have-to-read-from-2021-2021-12
5 books published in 2021 that MIT says you must read if you want to understand the world better
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has compiled a small list of the top books published in 2021.
The institute recommends these books for anyone who wants a better understanding of how the world has changed in the last two years, and what the future may look like.
It includes essays on investment, remote working, artificial intelligence, and vaccines — the authors are mostly university professors, researchers, and economists.
For the serious music nerd? Music in the public domain.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2022/01/the-national-jukebox-16000-early-music.html
The National Jukebox - 16,000+ Early Music Recordings
The Library of Congress offers many interesting collections of digital archives including one called the National Jukebox. I first wrote about it more than a decade ago. Since then the size of the collection has expanded because more recordings have entered the public domain and because the Library of Congress has digitized more recordings. The collection now offers more than 16,000 recordings made between the years of 1900 and 1925. Nearly all of the recordings were originally done on wax cylinders through the acoustical recording process.
The recordings in the National Jukebox can be searched and listened to on your computer. You can search the archives by recording date, recording type, language, and target audience. The National Jukebox has also arranged playlists that you can listen to in a continuous stream. You can also embed the recordings player into your blog or website as I have done below. Watch this short video to see the National Jukebox in action.
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