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As more and more business decisions get handed over (sometime blindly) to computer algorithms (aka 'AI'), companies are very late to the game in considering what the consequences of that delegation will yield. As a buffer against these consequences, a company may want to be more transparent about how it's algorithms work but that is not without it's challenges.
To start, companies attempting to utilize artificial intelligence need to recognize that there are costs associated with transparency. This is not, of course, to suggest that transparency isn’t worth achieving, simply that it also poses downsides that need to be fully understood. These costs should be incorporated into a broader risk model that governs how to engage with explainable models and the extent to which
information about the model is available to others.
Second, organizations must also recognize that security is becoming an increasing concern in the world of AI. As AI is adopted more widely, more security vulnerabilities and bugs will surely be discovered, as my colleagues and I at the Future of Privacy Forum recently argued. Indeed, security may be one of the biggest long-term barriers to the adoption of AI.
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So we have gone from conflict diamonds to conflict avocados? I guess it proves out the old adage “if something is worth doing, it is worth doing for money”. Sadly.
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> Science has found that reading is essential for a healthy brain. We already know reading is good for children’s developing noggins: A study of twins at the University of California at Berkeley found that kids who started reading at an earlier age went on to perform better on certain intelligence tests, such as analyses of their vocabulary size.
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And it doesn't seem to matter if it is a physical book, an e-reader or an audio book (although the audio book has a slightly different impact on the brain).
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As for audiobooks, the research so far has found that they stimulate the brain just as deeply as black-and-white pages, although they affect your gray matter somewhat differently. Because you’re listening to a story, you’re using different methods to decode and comprehend it. With print books, you need to provide the voice, called the prosody—you’re imagining the “tune and rhythm of speech,†the intonation, the stress on certain syllables, and so. With audio, the voice actor provides that information for you, so your brain isn’t generating the prosody itself, but rather working to understand the prosody in your ears.
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These types of articles seem to come down to the insatiable need for writers to sensationalize things that they don't necessarily understand.
For example, in the scenario outlined in the article, it is unlikely that the 'AI' (aka computer algorithm) was self aware and said to itself “hey, I have a comprehensive understanding of humans and their capabilities, so I will modify myself to 'cheat' at this task in a way that a human would find difficult to detect”.
More likely is that the algorithm was poorly defined and the brute force computational model (aka 'AI') found a way to 'solve' the problem in a way that wasn't contemplated by the software developer.
I knew that flickr has been on the decline for a while. IMHO, Yahoo's acquisition was the beginning of the end. SmugMug's heavy handed idiocy of late was the last straw for me.
After a few arrogant email demands from SmarmMug, I had had enough so I requested all of my data from flickr and it only took them a week and a half to provide the requested files. I happily downloaded my content and deleted my account after 13 years of use.
