Wednesday, May 24, 2023

You're Invited: CHT Town Hall on AI

You're Invited: CHT Town Hall on AI: "Recent advances in generative AI are yet another instance of technology that’s advancing faster than our minds and our institutions can keep up."
Wednesday June 7 from 9-10 am Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7)

Elon Musk's Twitter Is a Disaster for Disaster Planning - The Atlantic

Elon Musk's Twitter Is a Disaster for Disaster Planning - The Atlantic: "For years, Twitter was at its best when bad things happened. Before Elon Musk bought it last fall, before it was overrun with scammy ads, before it amplified fake personas, and before its engineers were told to get more eyeballs on the owner’s tweets, Twitter was useful in saving lives during natural disasters and man-made crises. Emergency-management officials have used the platform to relate timely information to the public—when to evacuate during Hurricane Ian, in 2022; when to hide from a gunman during the Michigan State University shootings earlier this month—while simultaneously allowing members of the public to transmit real-time data. The platform didn’t just provide a valuable communications service; it changed the way emergency management functions."

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Network of ancient Maya cities reveals well-organized civilization - The Washington Post

Network of ancient Maya cities reveals well-organized civilization - The Washington Post: "The lidar findings have unveiled “a whole volume of human history that we’ve never known” because of the scarcity of artifacts from that period, which were probably buried by later construction by the Maya and then covered by jungle."

Friday, May 19, 2023

Sale of private behaviour information

Sale of personal behaviour information: “Professional cricketers’ data is being processed and sent all over the world, currently without the knowledge and understanding of the players,” GSDT said. “It is being processed by companies outside of cricket for commercial purposes with little or no funding being returned to the players.”

Kristin Judge on victim support

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

New FTC Data Show Consumers Reported Losing Nearly $8.8 Billion to Scams in 2022 | Federal Trade Commission

Fraud skyrockets as cost-of-living and economic crises begin to deepen | Cifas

AI poses existential threat and risk to health of millions, experts warn

AI Risk Management Framework | NIST

AI Risk Management Framework | NIST: On March 30, NIST launched the Trustworthy and Responsible AI Resource Center, which will facilitate implementation of, and international alignment with, the AI RMF.

20 Biggest Cybersecurity Companies In the World

20 Biggest Cybersecurity Companies In the World: "McKinsey shares that companies and organizations spent $150 billion in 2021 on cybersecurity, but it adds that the threat sector is quite dynamic. The firm's survey of 4,000 companies reveals that 80% of the threat groups and 40% of malware in 2021 were completely new. McKinsey adds that the $150 billion is just a hairline fraction of the total addressable market (TAM) in cybersecurity, and even if there was a ten percent penetration, then the market can blossom to $1.5 trillion."

Thursday, May 4, 2023

Another warning about the AI apocalypse? I don’t buy it | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Another warning about the AI apocalypse? I don't buy it | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/03/ai-chatgpt-bard-artificial-intelligence-apocalypse-global-rules

‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns over dangers of misinformation | Google | The Guardian

'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns over dangers of misinformation | Google | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/02/geoffrey-hinton-godfather-of-ai-quits-google-warns-dangers-of-machine-learning

State-level macro-economic factors moderate the association of low income with brain structure and mental health in U.S. children | Nature Communications

State-level macro-economic factors moderate the association of low income with brain structure and mental health in U.S. children | Nature Communications
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37778-1

Facebook's user loss obscures its VR dominance via the Quest 2

Facebook's user loss obscures its VR dominance via the Quest 2: "However, the gradual slowing of Facebook’s daily social media users, as its VR users spike, indicates that a shift is in play that hasn’t been fully accounted for by market analysts."

Factsheet: failure to prevent fraud offence - GOV.UK

Factsheet: failure to prevent fraud offence - GOV.UK: The government is creating a new failure to prevent fraud offence to hold organisations to account if they profit from fraud committed by their employees.

45 Virtual Reality Statistics in 2023 or older

45 Virtual Reality Statistics That Rock the Market in 2023: "According to the GlobalWebIndex study of virtual reality user demographics in the UK and US, 35% of users in the 16 to 34 age group have used a VR headset, while the figure is 26% for the 35-44 group, 12% for the 45-54 group, and just 6% for the 55-64 group. In terms of gender, 30% of men surveyed had used a VR headset at least once compared to only 16% among women."

Also, demand for VR to be more social.