This New Yorker story about unjustified overconfidence in AI — expensive and flashy policing toys technology — reminds me of the trouble with radar detectors. …technology has only grown more ubiquitous, not least because selling it is a lucrative business, and A.I. companies have successfully persuaded law-enforcement agencies to become customers. […] Last fall, a … Continue reading Injustice Robots: Real and Present Danger of Police Overconfidence in AI→
Well, does anyone really have any doubts now about Elon Musk being antisemitic? First, read this 1936 book on why nobody ever should say some of their friends are Jews in response to accusations of antisemitism. That phrase, it’s a dire warning. It’s a well known phrase of antisemitism associated with Nazi Germany. Second, read … Continue reading Elon Musk Says Some of His Best Friends Are Jews→
From 2012 I warned here and in talks that the biggest and most significant problem in big data security was integrity. The LLM zealots didn’t listen. By 2016 in the security conference circuit I was delivering a series of talks about driverless cars being a huge looming threat to pedestrian safety. Eventually, with Uber and … Continue reading The More Driverless Cars Deployed The Less People Want Them→
Update a day later: the new CEO was just abruptly replaced by another one. Three CEO in three days, for a company that claims to have the best prediction algorithm in history. Update another day later: the CEO who replaced the CEO, was replaced by the first CEO, making American business culture look like it … Continue reading OpenAI Interim-CEO Maybe Responsible for Over 40 Deaths→