Law enforcement agencies like the New Orleans Police Department are adopting artificial-intelligence based systems to analyze surveillance footage. WSJ’s Jason Bellini gets a demonstration of the tracking technology and hears why some think it’s a game changer, while for others it’s raising concerns around privacy and potential bias.
Putin: Whoever Masters Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Rule The World
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently explained what he believes is necessary to rule the world. “If someone could guarantee themselves a monopoly in the area of artificial intelligence, the consequences are clear to us all – they would become the world ruler,” the TASS news agency cited Putin as saying.
The Russian president remarked that the fight for technological superiority, including in the field of AI, has already become a field for global competition. “The speed at which new products and solutions are created is growing exponentially,” he observed.
Putin noted that many countries have already chosen their strategies concerning AI. “We too, of course, must ensure our technological sovereignty in the AI field,” he said, adding that it is the most important condition for the success of Russia’s business, economy, security, defensive capability and quality of human life.
‘Blockchain has Tremendous Potential in the Market,’ Says The Chair of the CFTC
Christopher Giancarlo, chairman at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, talks about the potential for blockchain and digital currencies.
Boston Dynamics Robots on the Move
They just keep getting better. It only takes 10 Spotpower (SP) to haul a truck across the Boston Dynamics parking lot (~1 degree uphill, truck in neutral). These Spot robots are coming off the production line now and will be available for a range of applications soon.
AdTech in Blockchain
Matt Hrushka, from Kochava, speaks about how blockchain technology is being deployed in digital advertising. Kochava is the industry leader for mobile app attribution and mobile app analytics. They enable top brands to harness their data for growth.
3 Limits of Artificial Intelligence
AI consists of four components:
- Data
- Algorithms
- Compute
- Education
AI has enabled many new opportunities for people to create a positive impact in the world by creating engineering solutions across every industry. However, AI is still evolving and we have to address its limitations as well. This video explains three major limits of AI – a lack of causal reasoning, vulnerability to adversarial examples, and a lack of interpretability. The video also explains ways to solve these limits and earn a profit doing so. The next time someone asks you what AI can’t currently do, share this video with them.
What is a Privacy Coin?
This video outlines the basic premise of privacy coins and why they’re important. It also touches upon some of the mechanisms they use to keep your transactions private, referencing ZCash and Monero. Think of privacy coins like the digital equivalent of cash.
Is Artificial Intelligence the Renaissance of Humanity?
Some people at the annual Eurasian Media Forum believe artificial intelligence will cause the next “renaissance of humanity” but others think this will come at the cost of serious inequality.
Quantum Computers Take Another Huge Leap Forward
Quantum computers continue to advance year over year. Here’s an attempt to round up the biggest quantum computer news in the last year.
Block One Keynote: Intro to Voice Social Media Platform
Brendan Blumer, CEO of Block One, which started 2-1/2 years ago, introduces Dan Larimer, CTO, who outlines the past and introduces “Voice,” their new social media platform.
A year ago they released the EOSIO open source protocol, which Larimer describes as the “fastest, most scalable and most active blockchain software in the world.”
Balaji Srinvasan and Tim Wagner from Coinbase announce that EOS is now available to trade on their platform and that visitors can earn EOS by completing some lessons on EOSIO.
Wagner also notes that Coinbase is the only major crypto exchange that has not been breached.
Larimer announced EOSIO 2 with a “WebAssembly engine designed for blockchain,” which is 12x faster than what it was a year ago when launched.
He also announced WebAuthn to support blockchain private key safety, which was elaborated by Guido Appenzeller, of Yubico. He describes their hardware key as vastly more secure than any passwords.
Blumer comes back to note that “Social media has not been a good friend to us.” He further states, “Our content. Our data. Our attention. These are all extraordinarily valuable things. But right now it’s the companies, not the users, that reaps the reward. By design, they run by auctioning our information to advertisers, pocketing the profit, and flooding our feeds with hidden agendas dictated by the highest bidder.”
He states they are building a transparent social media platform on EOS where what’s good for the platform is good for people, too, with built-in accountability.
They call it VOICE.
Larimer returns to introduce the Voice token. It rewards users via contention creation and discovery. The rewards are then used to magnify your voice on their platform.
The platform authenticates real people as users, eliminating bot armies and anonymous controls.
The authentication of all users on the platform also establishes an EOS-based blockchain identity that can be integrated into other applications in the future.