Saturday, March 04, 2023

Automating a task humans could do poorly?

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-03-03/surveillance-ai-coappearance-facial-recognition

The cameras know who you are. Now they want to use AI to find your friends too





Local interest.

https://www.databreaches.net/hacker-stole-bank-account-social-security-numbers-and-health-plan-info-of-colorado-school-district-employees/

Hacker stole bank account, Social Security numbers, and health plan info of Colorado school district employees

Nate Lynn reports:

Personal information belonging to some 15,000 Denver Public Schools (DPS) employees was stolen in what the district is calling a “cybersecurity incident” that went on for a month.
In a message shared on the DPS website Friday, DPS said employees discovered in January that data had been taken from the district’s network by an “unauthorized actor.”
[…]
The information stolen included the names and Social Security numbers of current and former participants in the DPS employee health plan, employee fingerprints, bank account numbers or pay card numbers, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers and health plan enrollment information.

Read more at 9News.





Worth considering?

https://www.investing.com/analysis/is-artificial-intelligence-the-next-bubble-200635861

Is Artificial Intelligence the Next Bubble?

In this article, we will look at the 5 stages of a financial bubble, suggesting AI may already be entering phase 2.





Perhaps we all should RTFM?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2358953-ai-masters-video-game-6000-times-faster-by-reading-the-instructions/

AI masters video game 6000 times faster by reading the instructions

An artificial intelligence has learned to master an Atari skiing game in days of playing time rather than the decades it took a specialist DeepMind AI, simply by reading the instructions written for humans before it started



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