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28 October, 2020
new research from CSIRO’s Data61 in partnership with South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University and the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) has revealed that these object detectors can be exploited with relative ease. Through manipulation involving the use of simple objects, researchers have discovered that it is possible for people to digitally disappear and bypass detection despite the fact they are clearly in the video.
https://algorithm.data61.csiro.au/new-research-reveals-its-possible-to-digitally-disappear-from-camera-detection/?utm_source=CSIROscope&utm_medium=Blog&utm_campaign=Cloaking
Labels:
Artificial Intelligence,
research
19 October, 2020
14 October, 2020
Netflix CEO on paying sky-high salaries: ‘The best are easily 10 times better than average’. The researchers expected that the best programmer would outperform his average counterpart by a factor of two or three. But it turned out that the most skilled programmer far outperformed the worst. He was 20 times faster at coding, 25 times faster at debugging, and 10 times faster at program execution than the programmer with the lowest marks.
Labels:
ICT Capability
22 September, 2020
Move Over, Moore’s Law: Make Way for Huang’s Law Graphics processors are on a supercharged development path that eclipses Moore’s Law, says Nvidia’s Jensen Huang
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/hardware/move-over-moores-law-make-way-for-huangs-law
Labels:
Artificial Intelligence,
History
31 August, 2020
Elon Musk shows Neuralink brain implant working in a pig "It's like a Fitbit in your skull," the SpaceX and Tesla leader says of Neuralink's brain-computer link technology.
https://www.cnet.com/news/elon-musks-neuralink-brain-computer-how-to-watch-working-demo-reveal-live/
27 August, 2020
12 August, 2020
TikTok skirted a privacy safeguard in Google’s Android operating system to collect unique identifiers from millions of mobile devices, data that allows the app to track users online without allowing them to opt out, a Wall Street Journal analysis has found. The tactic, which experts in mobile-phone security said was concealed through an unusual added layer of encryption, appears to have violated Google policies limiting how apps track people and wasn’t disclosed to TikTok users. TikTok ended the practice in November, the Journal’s testing showed.
Labels:
Asia Connection,
Cybersafety,
Ethical,
Privacy
11 August, 2020
06 July, 2020
11 June, 2020
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Wednesday said it was implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition software, halting a business it long defended as many protested law enforcement brutality against people of color. The decision culminates a two-year battle between Amazon and civil liberties activists, who have voiced concern that inaccurate matches could lead to unjust arrests.
Labels:
Artificial Intelligence,
Big Data,
Ethical,
Privacy
03 June, 2020
Last year, UNSW responded to falling enrolments with a proposal to lower entry requirements. With an estimated 80 per cent of teaching now casualised, academics have become itinerant workers. Students have become customers. Teachers report widespread pressure to pass low-grade students but cannot speak of it, fearing reprisal.
Labels:
Education,
Ethical,
Sustainability
29 May, 2020
The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.
Labels:
Catholic Worldview,
Cybersafety,
Ethical,
History,
ICT Capability,
ICT Career
25 May, 2020
Turn on your webcam, enable your microphone and share your computer screen, an anonymous voice told university student Emily Johnston as she sat her first online exam from her bedroom. Don't look away from your screen for too long, in case artificial intelligence scans your face and registers suspicious behaviour. Any noise or movement you make will be recorded, reviewed and stored for two years. Many university students have been unsettled by proctoring software being used to invigilate their online exams during the coronavirus pandemic.
Labels:
Artificial Intelligence,
Privacy
Nvidia’s GameGAN AI Creates Pac-Man Without an Underlying Game Engine. The reason advances like GameGAN strike me as significant is because they don’t just represent an AI learning how to play a game. The AI is actually learning something about how the game is implemented purely from watching someone else play it. That’s closer, conceptually, to how humans learn
Labels:
Artificial Intelligence,
Game,
History
20 May, 2020
'Greatest peril': study finds Australia most dependent on China among the Five Eyes. The report did not recommend an immediate economic decoupling from China as that would be “painful and expensive” but said the Five Eyes countries should work together to prevent China dominating the nine industries that it identified would dominate the future economy. They are: artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous robotics, computing hardware, cryptographic technology, materials and manufacturing science, nano-technologies, networking and data communication, quantum technology and synthetic biology.
13 May, 2020
11 May, 2020
01 May, 2020
POPE FRANCIS ON SUNDAY advocated for a form of universal basic income that would "dignify the noble, essential tasks" carried out by street vendors, small farmers, construction workers and caregivers around the world. The message turned heads in the U.S., coming just weeks after lawmakers finalized a plan to distribute direct cash transfers to many Americans – and just months after entrepreneur Andrew Yang made waves in the Democratic presidential primaries on a policy platform based around the adoption of a universal basic income.
Labels:
Catholic Worldview,
Sustainability
27 April, 2020
23 March, 2020
20 March, 2020
The technology that animated movies like Toy Story and enabled a variety of special effects is the focus of this year's Turing Award, the technology industry's version of the Nobel Prize. Patrick Hanrahan and Edwin Catmull won the prize for their contributions to 3D computer graphics used in movies and video games.
Labels:
3D,
Game,
Graphic Design
16 March, 2020
24 February, 2020
20 February, 2020
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