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Re: [nexa] Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?

by Roberto Dolci

What is happening is specialized chatbots are rolling out and doeing well: from digitalhealth related ones like woebot (Stamford Uni), to several banks retail customer services, to several outsourced admin services (boeing and amazon procurement). There is not enough progress on General AI to sustain multi purpose bot applications Best Regards Rob Dolci Aizoon.Us +1-866-398-6567 On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 2:22 PM -0500, "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin(a)polito.it<mailto:demartin@polito.it>> wrote: https://blog.growthbot.org/chatbots-were-the-next-big-thing-what-happened<https://blog.growthbot.org/chatbots-were-the-next-big-thing-what-happened?h…> Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? Justin Lee<https://blog.growthbot.org/author/justin-lee> Oh, how the headlines blared: "...the 2016 bot paradigm shift is going to be far more disruptive and interesting than the last decade's move from Web to mobile apps." Chatbots were The Next Big Thing. Our hopes were sky high. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, the industry was ripe for a new era of innovation: it was time to start socializing with machines. And why wouldn't they be? All the road signs pointed towards insane success. [...] (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

June 8, 2018

Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?

by J.C. DE MARTIN

https://blog.growthbot.org/chatbots-were-the-next-big-thing-what-happened Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? Justin Lee Oh, how the headlines blared: “…the 2016 bot paradigm shift is going to be far more disruptive and interesting than the last decade’s move from Web to mobile apps.” Chatbots were The Next Big Thing. Our hopes were sky high. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, the industry was ripe for a new era of innovation: it was time to start socializing with machines. And why wouldn’t they be? All the road signs pointed towards insane success. [...] (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

June 8, 2018

principi per AI di Google

by Stefano Quintarelli

AI at Google: our principles https://blog.google/topics/ai/ai-principles/ lettura interessante ciao!, s.

June 8, 2018

Ciclo di seminari: Le legacy urbane tra patrimonio, diritti e innovazione | 11 giugno, Torino

by Francesco Ruggiero

Carissimi, vi segnalo che l’*11 giugno 2018 *alle ore* 17:30, *prenderà il via il *Ciclo di seminari: Le legacy urbane tra patrimonio, diritti e innovazione <http://urbanlegacylab.net/events/le-legacy-urbane-tra-patrimonio-diritti-e-…>, *organizzato dal centro interdipartimentale* FULL - the Future Urban Legacy Lab.* La prima lecture, che avrà luogo presso il *Salone d’Onore del Castello del Valentino*, a Torino, sarà tenuta dal *Prof. Carlo Olm**o* affiancato dal *Prof. Matteo Robiglio* nel ruolo di discussant. *Le legacy urbane tra patrimonio, diritti e innovazione *è un ciclo di incontri seminariali a due voci per esplorare il senso e le implicazioni della parola-chiave di F*UL*L.Il dibattito ha l’obiettivo di produrre le basi teoriche per riformulare il concetto di Legacy urbana. E’ necessario creare un lessico che sostenga questo concetto.I luoghi comuni del Novecento non esistono più, le narrazioni legate a questi luoghi non sono più sufficienti per descrivere ciò che ne rimane. Alla fine del secolo scorso si passa da parole chiave fondate sulla storia dell’industria, a parole chiave di natura urbana e fondate sull’‘assenza’, il vuoto diventa patrimonio e edifici o frammenti di edifici entrano a pieno diritto nei processi di patrimonializzazione, ponendo il problema della continua ricostruzione di una memoria rimossa. La sfida è quella di ricostruire un vocabolario con la necessaria profondità storica, che possa costituire la “base comune” di un progetto che ambisce a ridefinire la legacy di una città industriale che oggi ha bisogno dell’argomentazione su cui fondare la propria legittimità, i propri confini, i propri attori e le proprie retoriche. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili alla pagina: http://urbanlegacylab.net/events/le-legacy-urbane-tra-patrimonio-diritti-e-… Cordiali saluti, -- Francesco Ruggiero Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

June 8, 2018

Unproven facial-recognition companies target schools, promising an end to shootings

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/unproven-facial-recognition…> The facial-recognition cameras installed near the bounce houses at the Warehouse, an after-school recreation center in Bloomington, Ind., are aimed low enough to scan the face of every parent, teenager and toddler who walks in. The center’s executive director, David Weil, learned earlier this year of the surveillance system from a church newsletter, and within six weeks he had bought his own, believing it promised a security breakthrough that was both affordable and cutting-edge. Since last month, the system has logged thousands of visitors’ faces — alongside their names, phone numbers and other personal details — and checked them against a regularly updated blacklist of sex offenders and unwanted guests. The system’s Israeli developer, Face-Six, also promotes it for use in prisons and drones. “Some parents still think it’s kind of ‘1984,’ ” said Weil, whose 21-month-old granddaughter is among the scanned. “A lot of people are afraid we’re getting too much information. . . . But the biggest thing for us is that we protect our kids.” An expanding web of largely unknown security contractors is marketing face recognition directly to school and community-center leaders, pitching the technology as an all-seeing shield against school shootings like those at Parkland, Fla., and Santa Fe, Tex. Although facial recognition remains unproven as a deterrent to school shootings, the specter of classroom violence and companies’ intensifying marketing to local education officials could cement the more than 130,000 public and private schools nationwide as one of America’s premier testing grounds — both for the technology’s abilities and for public acceptance of a new generation of mass surveillance. The surveillance firms say little about how they designed, tested or safeguarded their facial-recognition systems because, they argue, it is proprietary information. They also play down privacy concerns, despite worries from parents over the lack of oversight into who controls the children’s facial images and how they can be used in the long term. “We’ve gotten no answers to all these questions: Under what conditions can a kid’s face be put into the system? Does the district need parental consent? Who can do a facial-recognition search?” said Jim Shultz, whose 15-year-old daughter goes to a high school in Upstate New York that is paying millions to install a surveillance network offering facial recognition. “It’s as if somebody presented them with a cool new car and they didn’t bother to look under the hood.” It’s unclear how the systems could have thwarted past attacks, many of which involved shooters who were students allowed on campus. But companies have nevertheless built sales pitches around the promise that campus administrators could block or track undesirable guests — wanted fugitives, problematic parents and expelled students, such as the Parkland suspect — before their violence could begin. “We were all waiting for something like the Parkland school shooting, for better or for worse,” said Jacob Sniff, the chief executive of Suspect Technologies, a facial-recognition start-up working with a few unidentified universities. “It’s quite clear that a facial-recognition system could have . . . prevented it.” Parents and privacy experts worry, however, that schools are rushing to adopt**untested and invasive artificial-intelligence systems with no proof of success. /[Amazon is selling facial recognition to law enforcement — for a fistful of dollars <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/05/22/amazon-is-sell…>]/ Andrew Ferguson, a law professor at the University of the District of Columbia, said surveillance companies are preying on the dread of community leaders by selling experimental “security theater” systems that offer only the appearance of safer schools. “These companies are taking advantage of the genuine fear and almost impotence of parents who want to protect their kids,” he said, “and they’re selling them surveillance technology at a cost that will do very little to protect them.” [...]

June 8, 2018

Workers at Google just scored an impressive victory against US militarism

by Luigi Scorca

Google employees have led a campaign demanding that the company terminate its contract with the Pentagon for Project Maven, a program that uses machine learning to improve targeting for drone strikes. Nearly five thousand Google workers signed an internal petition to cancel the project, and dozens resigned. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers

June 6, 2018

Re: [nexa] 92 million accounts for DNA testing site MyHeritage found online

by Giacomo Tesio

2018-06-05 22:57 GMT+02:00 gabriele elia <gabriele.elia(a)live.com>: > Sembra sui dati si possa dire “se sono nel cloud, prima o poi qualcuno se > li prende” :( > La cosa divertente è che ci stupiamo. Come se lasciassimo i nostri vestiti a casa di uno sconosciuto che ci offre lo spazio gratis: possiamo lamentarci se li affitta ad altri sconosciuti, ma non stupirci. Il cloud è esattamente questo. Giacomo

June 6, 2018

92 million accounts for DNA testing site MyHeritage found online

by gabriele elia

Sembra sui dati si possa dire “se sono nel cloud, prima o poi qualcuno se li prende” :( https://www.zdnet.com/article/92-million-accounts-for-dna-testing-site-myhe… 92 million accounts for DNA testing site MyHeritage found online The company announced the exposure revealed email addresses and hashed passwords. By Zack Whittaker<https://www.zdnet.com/meet-the-team/us/zack-whittaker/> for Zero Day<https://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/> | June 5, 2018 -- 20:44 GMT (21:44 BST) | Topic: Security<https://www.zdnet.com/topic/security/> · 0<https://www.zdnet.com/article/92-million-accounts-for-dna-testing-site-myhe…> · 2 · · · · [tree.jpg] (Image: file photo) DNA testing site MyHeritage<https://www.myheritage.com/> has said the company has been hacked. The Israel-based company said in a blog post<https://blog.myheritage.com/2018/06/myheritage-statement-about-a-cybersecur…> this week that a security researcher found a file containing 92.2 million account records, including email addresses and scrambled passwords<https://www.zdnet.com/pictures/the-dumbest-passwords-people-still-use/>. The company said the breach affected all accounts up to and including to October 26, 2017. "There has been no evidence that the data in the file was ever used by the perpetrators," said Omer Deutsch, the company's chief information security officer in a blog post<https://blog.myheritage.com/2018/06/myheritage-statement-about-a-cybersecur…>, adding that the company has not seen any indication that the accounts had been compromised. The company didn't name the security researcher.<https://www.zdnet.com/article/chilling-effect-lawsuits-threaten-security-re…> MyHeritage allows users to search a vast trove of genealogy records to build up family trees and discover the histories of their ancestors.

June 5, 2018

Re: [nexa] deliveroo: i ragazzi in spagna sono dipendenti secondo una corte

by Luigi Scorca

Sempre sullo stesso argomento.. https://seekingalpha-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/seekingalpha.com/amp/news/3… Il mar 5 giu 2018, 13:16 Stefano Quintarelli <stefano(a)quintarelli.it> ha scritto: > https://goo.gl/yNFDS2 > Primera Sentencia que Condena a Deliveroo y declara la Laboralidad del > Rider > > ciao!, s. > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >

June 5, 2018

deliveroo: i ragazzi in spagna sono dipendenti secondo una corte

by Stefano Quintarelli

https://goo.gl/yNFDS2 Primera Sentencia que Condena a Deliveroo y declara la Laboralidad del Rider ciao!, s.

June 5, 2018