Episode 112 - AI in the Military, Colonial Pipeline, and Discriminatory NDAs
Release Date: 05/18/2021
Episode 115 - Sharing your Bandwidth and Serious AI Questions
The Killing IT Podcast
Topic 1: Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors. Amazon introduces "sidewalk" network sharing. This feature is ON by default. At this point, Amazon's new mesh network sharing is experimental. How do you feel about that? Is this OK from Apple but not from Amazon? Read in Ars Technica: Topic 2: The Era of the Digital Leash is well on its way. Now add some AI analysis. Bosses putting a 'digital leash' on remote workers could be crossing a privacy line. We've reported about watching both students and employees. Now we find this constant monitoring moving...
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Episode 114 - Google's MUM, 911 Drones, and Ethical Obligation
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Topic 1: Google Replaces Bert with MUM At I/O 2021, Google introduced MUM — Multitask United Model. According to Google, this new language model is 1000 times more powerful than BERT, the search engine they released in 2019. MUM is coming to Google products sometime in the future. Note: BERT = Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. Did BERT change your life two years ago? Will you actually notice the move to MUM? Topic 2: Drones as first response to 911 calls. The Chula Vista police drones can now cover 100% Of of the City For Emergency Calls. And they...
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Episode 113 - Cryto Currency Insanity, and Video Cards that Aren’t Graphics Cards
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Topic 1: Does the obvious stupidity in the Crypto-verse help to increase or decrease the adoption of crypo currencies? A bit of crypto news this week. But on the serious side, what does this activity mean? Elon Musk makes fun of crypto currencies and the market goes wild (down). Dogecoin created as a joke. Now it's going crazy. Then two winners created a spinoff coin because “people seem to like dogs” and became millionaires. Topic 2: Ann Arbor to Launch Autonomous Shuttle Service October 11th But there's one already operating in Fairfax, VA. We have some questions about the...
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Episode 112 - AI in the Military, Colonial Pipeline, and Discriminatory NDAs
The Killing IT Podcast
Topic 1: Military practices controlling hundreds of robots and drones at once - with AI Like it or not, AI is coming to military operations. It might be cheaper, but is it safer? But is the reliance on AI a problem? Links: Topic 2: What can we learn from the Colonial Pipeline hack? How should companies respond? And are there real consequences for companies that get hacked? We discuss. Topic 3: Proposed law says discriminatory behavior should not be subject to non-disclosure agreements. Is the NDA … too much? Ifeoma Ozoma is a technology policy expert with experience leading...
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Episode 111 - Hacking Waze, Cookies by Drone, and Discussing Diversity
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Topic 1: Burger King diverts McDonalds customers - via Waze This one is kinda cool because it's so sneaky. With just a taste of big data. When people are close to a McDonalds billboard and headed toward a restaurant, Waze lures them off to a Burger King instead. Just sneaky, or actually immoral? Link: Topic 2: Girl Scout Cookies by Drone Not a burrito or pizza. But it's pretty cool to get your cookies by drone. Makes us ponder: Are there things you would actually pay a premium to get via drone? We're thinking yes for cookies, and probably no for a ream of paper. Link: Topic 3: Basecamp...
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Episode 110 - Hacked Ice Cream Machine and Right to Repair
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Topic 1: Hacked Ice Cream Makers at McDonalds A very strange right to repair! If you buy an expensive machine, do you have the right to buy a third-party add-on that makes it work better? Topic 2: EU looking to regulate “High-Risk” AI High risk determined in two steps by considering whether it may cause certain harms and, if so, the severity of the possible harm and the probability of occurrence. Possible damages include - death of a person - damage of property - systemic adverse impacts for society at large - adverse impact on financial, educational or professional opportunities of...
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Episode 109 - Offensive Tech Jargon, Facial Recognition Update, and Geo-Location Ethics
The Killing IT Podcast
Topic 1: Racist (and other offensive) Tech Jargon Words matter. The most obvious example is "master/slave" but there's plenty of other insensitive terminology around. Remember, these terms might make sense to you, but you clients may hear it and wonder exactly what you're talking about. Link: Topic 2: Facial Recognition Update. Facial Recognition has evolved considerably in the pandemic. It has been banned in a few places. It has been regulated a bit at the local (not federal) level. Amateurs are now getting in the game (e.g., Used to identify police during protests). And the police have...
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Episode 108 - AI on Fiverr, Millions of IOT Devices Compromised, and More
The Killing IT Podcast
Topic 1: Will Bots Take Jobs? AI Robots are coming for your jobs! Or - in a much more realistic interpretation, they are coming to reduce the amount of mundane process work that humans do so they can focus on interpersonal stuff that robots can’t do. We take a mostly positive spin on this one. Related Link: Topic 2: 100 Million IOT Devices Compromised Scary fact: As the number of deployed devices continues to grow exponentially, the size of these incidents will also continue to grow. This will also have an effect on our liability insurance and state/provincial legislation. Related Link: ...
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Episode 107 - Best Practices, Ingram/Harmony, and Water Cooled Servers
The Killing IT Podcast
Topic 1: Should you rely on best practices? We return to the question of what ARE best practices and how you define them. But more than that, should you be following other peoples' so-called best practices? Stop leaning on best practices, and experiment! Related Link: Topic 2: Distributor Ingram Micro Buys Harmony PSA. First, do you care? Second, is this a good move? Would you be tempted to a PSA owned by one of your distributors? Related Links: Topic 3: Submerged Servers. Like, IN the water. Last year Microsoft completed a test of sealed server data centers at the bottom of the ocean....
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Episode 106 - Multicloud, Deep Fakes, AI, and More
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Topic 1: Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud It's time to take this seriously and talk about Integration. As always, we take a stab at the terminology used by our industry and ponder about what's really going on. We all love jargon, but it's important to dig a little a figure out what's really being discussed. Related Link: Topic 2: Detecting Deef Fake Videos with AI Scientists developed a clever way to detect deep fakes by analyzing light reflections in the eyes Related Link: Book to note: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Topic 3: Next Up - Open AI that doesn’t...
info_outlineTopic 1: Military practices controlling hundreds of robots and drones at once - with AI
Like it or not, AI is coming to military operations. It might be cheaper, but is it safer? But is the reliance on AI a problem?
Links:
- https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon-inches-toward-letting-ai-control-weapons/
- https://thenextweb.com/news/military-experts-fear-pentagon-sucked-into-artificial-ai-hype
Topic 2: What can we learn from the Colonial Pipeline hack?
How should companies respond? And are there real consequences for companies that get hacked?
We discuss.
Topic 3: Proposed law says discriminatory behavior should not be subject to non-disclosure agreements.
Is the NDA … too much?
Ifeoma Ozoma is a technology policy expert with experience leading global public policy efforts at Pinterest, Facebook and Google. When she left Pinterest, she couldn't tell anyone that she left over complaints she had filed about wage discrimination and retaliation. She could not speak out because the company non-disclosure agreement forbid it.
Now she is pushing legislation to make it illegal to include this kind of behavior in NDAs. After all, NDAs are intended to protect intellectual property, not potentially illegal behavior.
Link:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/10/pinterest-discrimination-ifeoma-ozoma-nda
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