U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in a December interview with a small group of columnists in New York that one of the largest threats facing America was cyber warfare. A handful of House members suggested in a September letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats that “deepfakes” — videos that...
An Amazon user in Germany was just able to gain access to an estimated 1,700 voice recordings of an Alexa user — because, get this, of a glitch at the Amazon company. That’s some glitch. It came by way of a “human error,” Amazon reported. But here’s the bigger glitch. In the end, these erroneously...
Pew Research Center asked 979 technology experts, business and policy leaders, scientists and science-minded activists and the like just how they thought artificial intelligence would impact humans by the year 2030 — and while 63 percent waxed positive, another 37 percent warned of the negatives. And one of their biggest concerns? That machines would eventually...
The U.S. Secret Service is testing a new facial recognition program at the White House, supposedly simply to identify their own volunteer agents in the public areas in the vicinity of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. But come on. There’s not a person alive who believes the Secret Service won’t take peaks at passersby. And this program...
Stephen Hawking, world-renowned theoretical physicist, mathematician, cosmologist and author, may have died in March, but the warnings of his final book, “Brief Answers to the Big Questions,” published just this week, shout from beyond the grave as something like this: Watch out, humanity, artificially intelligent beings will soon rule. And ‘lest you laugh — Hawking...
Technology’s only as good as its imperfect human programmers. That’s been the general rule of thumb for climate-change modeling. That’s been the talked-about challenge for artificial intelligence development for years. And now, given a new report from Reuters that revealed how Amazon’s employment recruitment A.I. disregarded and dismissed qualified candidates based solely on sex —...
