December 19th by Scott Bennet 0 0

Welcome to Navigating the AI Hype. This will be a timely article that curates events in AI to tabulate AI’s journey as this unprecedented phenomenon makes its way into our lives: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. We will acknowledge successes in AI as well as those that still require further progress. We will also highlight areas where human conscience will need to dictate policy and regulation as ethical standards will be built in lockstep with technology as it evolves. Finally, we will highlight references and resources for anyone wanting to dive in further into Artificial Intelligence. Enjoy!

The Good:

DeepMind AlphaFold Delivers “Unprecedented Progress” on Protein Folding

“Proteins are essential to life. Predicting their 3D structure is a major unsolved challenge in biology and could impact disease understanding and drug discovery. I’m excited to announce that we have won the CASP13 protein folding competition!”

Facebook And MIT Researchers Want To Use AI To Create Addresses For The Billions Of People Who Don’t Have One

“Artificial intelligence will revolutionize how we live, creating both incredible opportunity for benefits, as well as some disruption that will be important to manage,”

The Bad:

Tech giants offer empty apologies because users can’t quit

“Sorry means nothing since so does We’re deleting.”.

DuckDuckGo Says Google’s Filter Bubble Is Real, and It Can Prove It

A study shows incognito mode does not mean anonymous

Microsoft President: We’ll Give Pentagon ‘All the Technology We Create’

“For us, we’ve been clear: we are gonna provide the US military with access to the best technology — to all the technology — we create. Full stop. We just said that flat out.”

The Ugly:

LinkedIn used 18M non-member emails to target Facebook ads. Were you a victim?

A Data Protection Commissioner investigation found that LinkedIn violated data protection policies shortly before onset of GDPR

Marriott hotels: data of 500m guests may have been exposed

“This indicates that as far as security monitoring and being able to respond in a timely and adequate fashion, Marriott had severe challenges being able to live up to its mission statement of keeping customer data safe.”

Quora data breach FAQ: What 100 million hacked users need to know

“On Friday [November 30] we discovered that some user data was compromised by a third party who gained unauthorized access to one of our systems.”

Emails of top NRCC officials stolen in major 2018 hack

“The NRCC can confirm that it was the victim of a cyber intrusion by an unknown entity. The cybersecurity of the Committee’s data is paramount, and upon learning of the intrusion, the NRCC immediately launched an internal investigation and notified the FBI, which is now investigating the matter,”