There was an AI story last weekend – here is another: ‘Mind-blowing’: Ai-Da becomes first robot to paint like an artist | Robots | The Guardian Further Reading Artificial Intelligence was the subject of last years BBC Reith Lectures – delivered by Professor Stuart Russell, founder of the Centre for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, …
The Triumphs of Artificial Intelligence
The advancement of AI is one of the threats to our current cyber security and one of the enhancements we can look forward to. This piece from The Guardian has nothing to do with either of those points – just that it beat a human at a game! It is …
Privacy by Design – A Google point of view
One of the ideas I explored in my MSc dissertation was the concept and implementation of “privacy by design” when writing software or in the case of my research when creating documents in an organisation. I read a lot stuff written by Ann Cavoukian, including her paper “Privacy by design: …
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More about “no more passwords”
This is something we have been following in our “weekend read“ features: A big bet to kill the password for good | Ars Technica
The power of Big Tech examined
Here is today’s coffee time article by April Glaser, Joan Donovan and Jenna Ruddock at The Guardian. It is from last week but I thought it was worth highlighting as the power that these mega-companies wield far exceeds most elected (and unelected) governments. How Silicon Valley’s Russia crackdown proves its …