Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 March 2020

Spies do it best in "Plain Sight" and a link to a free AI course and what the Vatican thinks!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51467536

Black boxes are just that and they could be working for another side as well as your own.
If you want to take a look at what can be inside them there is a free AI course running at the University of Helsinki:

https://www.elementsofai.com/

Vatican, IBM and Microsoft call for Ethical AI:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51673296

Tuesday, 1 October 2019

Please Keep Off the Grass

In the computer trade sometimes hype breaks common sense reasoning. Perhaps I too have been guilty of this. Drawn along by the Agile Manifesto I sounded out the mantra of "Move Fast and Break Things Quick". Perhaps I should also remember the simplest and most powerful of mathematical techniques - always view the validity of the inverse argument to see if it is more powerful! So from the lips of the Microsoft President:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-49768347/microsoft-president-don-t-move-fast-and-break-things

Maybe we all can be "Muppets"! Hey those are social media weapons of mass destruction.

Brad Smith's book - Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age