Master Go player retires citing AI supremacy

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 10:41:32 +0000

Master Go player Lee Se-dol has handed in his stones after deciding that there’s just no way to beat a machine when playing the ancient Chinese board game.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/bWAqrK3UmqQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Blackberry refreshes its UEM suite, focuses on zero-trust access

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:17:00 -0800

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Sophos 2020 Threat Report: AI is the new battleground

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:41:21 +0000

The SophosLabs 2020 Threat Report highlights a growing battle as smart automation technologies continue to evolve.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/MkuqFZJIxhw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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AI wordsmith too dangerous to be released… has been released

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:50:47 +0000

The text-generating AI has only been released in neutered forms until now, for fear it would be used to mass-produce fake news and spam.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Gp2bPEYqYs8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Pentagon publishes AI guidelines

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:43:59 +0000

As the specter of warrior robots looms large, the Pentagon has published a set of ethical guidelines for its use of artificial intelligence.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/QVzJCPZlr9g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Twitter bans political ads

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:24:43 +0000

Interesting timing: Right before Facebook’s earnings call, two weeks after Facebook said it won’t pull political ads that spout lies.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/4ojwnOWi26U” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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New Facebook AI fools facial recognition

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:37:19 +0000

The technology – which Facebook won’t use in its own apps – subtly distorts face images so they’re still recognizable, but not to machines.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/98QOXSevUPY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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IBM tears into Google’s ‘quantum supremacy’ claim

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:19:07 +0000

Is ‘quantum supremacy’ the moment that the rarefied world of quantum computing finally enters popular consciousness? Probably not.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/KQ-hCfgul6U” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Robotic hand solves Rubik’s Cube by learning how to learn about it

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:14:37 +0000

The system figured out how to overcome little hurdles, like being nudged by a stuffed giraffe when trying to do important robot work.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/veD4J8v7FpI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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