Here is a thought provoking essay from the public-interest technologist Bruce Schneier: AI and Microdirectives – Schneier on Security Something to read with the morning coffee this weekend. It is actually “further listening – The BBC Reith Lectures, by Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science and founder of the Center …
Because It’s Friday – bringing two of my favourite Friday themes together…
Here is something from Scott Adams, to make you smile at the end of the week. It brings together coffee and artificial intelligence: Ai Based On Wally – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2022-11-02 | Dilbert by Scott Adams The cartoon got me thinking – kill the AI – which reminded …
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Back to Google’s “sentient” AI
Here are a couple of articles looking at the issues raised around Google’s AI chatbot, LaMDA (language model for dialog applications), because Blake Lemoine, an engineer working with the system, has claimed LaMDA is sentient. Google was not pleased – they suspended Blake, for publishing confidential company property. Google does …
Quantum Computers breaking encryption – No time soon…
As I have said before the prospect of incredibly powerful quantum computers, that could break the encryption that we all currently depend on, was a hot subject of discussion during my Masters course. But as Bruce Schneier shows us today it is along way in the future. Breaking 256-bit Elliptic …
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Because it’s Friday – I cannot miss another chance to blog about flying cars!
I am of an age that when I was at school, we all thought we would have flying cars by 2022! Read that story here: Now we are all one step nearer to owning a flying car: Flying car wins airworthiness certification – BBC News Headline image credit – Frank …
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