You Might Use AI, But That Doesn't Mean You're an AI Company, Says a Founder of Goog Slashdotby msmash on ai at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at September 19, 2017, 11:34 pm)

As AI space gets crowded, there are a slew of businesses -- new and old -- looking to market themselves as "AI companies." But according to Andrew Ng, a founder of the Google Brain team and a luminary in the space, there's more to being an AI company than just using a neural net. From a report: In his view, while it's possible to create a website for a shopping mall, that doesn't make it an internet company. In the same way, just implementing basic machine learning does not make a standard technology company (or any other business) an AI company. "You're not an AI company because there are a few people using a few neural networks somewhere," Ng said. "It's much deeper than that." First and foremost, AI companies are strategic about their acquisition of data, which is used as the fuel for machine learning systems. Once an AI company has acquired the data, Ng said that they tend to store it in centralized warehouses for processing. Most enterprises have their information spread across multiple different warehouses, and collating that data for machine learning can prove difficult. AI companies also implement modern development practices, like frequent deployments. That means it's possible to change the product and learn from the changes.

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What Comes After User-Friendly Design? Slashdotby msmash on technology at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at September 19, 2017, 11:04 pm)

Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, writing for FastCoDesign: "User-friendly" was coined in the late 1970s, when software developers were first designing interfaces that amateurs could use. In those early days, a friendly machine might mean one you could use without having to code. Forty years later, technology is hyper-optimized to increase the amount of time you spend with it, to collect data about how you use it, and to adapt to engage you even more. [...] The discussion around privacy, security, and transparency underscores a broader transformation in the typical role of the designer, as Khoi Vinh, principal designer at Adobe and frequent design writer on his own site, Subtraction, points out. So what does it mean to be friendly to users-er, people-today? Do we need a new way to talk about design that isn't necessarily friendly, but respectful? I talked to a range of designers about how we got here, and what comes next.

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Medical Supply Firm Hacked&#x3b; Log Review Key to Detection (InfoRiskToday) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at September 19, 2017, 11:00 pm)

Twitter suspends 299,000 accounts linked to terrorism in past six month (ZDNet) SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at September 19, 2017, 11:00 pm)

Google's AI Boss Blasts Musk's Scare Tactics on Machine Takeover Slashdotby msmash on ai at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at September 19, 2017, 10:34 pm)

Mark Bergen, writing for Bloomberg: Elon Musk is the most-famous Cassandra of artificial intelligence. The Tesla chief routinely drums up the technology's risks in public and on Twitter, where he recently called the global race to develop AI the "most likely cause" of a third world war. Researchers at Google, Facebook and other AI-focused companies find this irritating. John Giannandrea, the head of search and AI at Alphabet's Google, took one of the clearest shots at Musk on Tuesday -- all while carefully leaving him unnamed. "There's a huge amount of unwarranted hype around AI right now," Giannandrea said at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. "This leap into, 'Somebody is going to produce a superhuman intelligence and then there's going to be all these ethical issues' is unwarranted and borderline irresponsible."

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Qatari emir condemns 'unjust blockade' at UNGA speech AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at September 19, 2017, 10:30 pm)

Sheikh Tamim renews call for talks 'based on mutual respect for sovereignty' to end the Gulf diplomatic crisis.
Viacom exposes crown jewels to world+dog in AWS S3 bucket blunder (The Register SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at September 19, 2017, 10:30 pm)

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CryptX-0.053_002 search.cpan.orgby Karel Miko at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at September 19, 2017, 10:03 pm)

Crypto toolkit
Equifax lesson: It's time for tougher rules, regulations, fines to combat breaches ( SANS ISC SecNewsFeed(cached at September 19, 2017, 10:00 pm)

In a 'Plot Twist', Wikileaks Releases Documents It Claims Detail Russia Mass Surveil Slashdotby msmash on privacy at January 1, 1970, 1:00 am (cached at September 19, 2017, 9:34 pm)

WikiLeaks, believed by many to be a Kremlin front, surprised some observers Tuesday morning (Snowden called it a "plot twist") when it released documents linking a Russian tech company with access to thousands of citizens' telephone and internet communications with Moscow. From a report: Writing a summary of the cache of mostly Russian-language documents, Wikileaks claims they show how a long-established Russian company which supplies software to telcos is also installing infrastructure, under state mandate, that enables Russian state agencies to tap into, search and spy on citizens' digital activity -- suggesting a similar state-funded mass surveillance program to the one utilized by the U.S.'s NSA or by GCHQ in the U.K. (both of which were detailed in the 2013 Snowden disclosures). The documents which Wikileaks has published (there are just 34 "base documents" in this leak) relate to a St. Petersburg-based company, called Peter-Service, which it claims is a contractor for Russian state surveillance. The company was set up in 1992 to provide billing solutions before going on to become a major supplier of software to the mobile telecoms industry.

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Major earthquake hits southern Mexico AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at September 19, 2017, 9:30 pm)

Strong tremor felt in Mexico City as quake strikes Puebla state, forcing people to flee buildings.
'Tensions to rise' after Trump's North Korea comments AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)(cached at September 19, 2017, 9:30 pm)

Analysts say US president's fiery language against North Korea and its leader distances the prospect of negotiations.