April 2019 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

UK businesses using artificial intelligence to monitor staff activity | Productivity | The Guardian
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 7, 2019

April 7, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/07/uk-businesses-using-arti… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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How Amazon's $97 million Eero acquisition screwed employees and minted millionaires
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 6, 2019

April 6, 2019

https://mashable.com/article/amazon-eero-wifi-router-sale/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Google employees are lining up to trash Google’s AI ethics council
by Arturo Di Corinto April 6, 2019

April 6, 2019

FYI Google employees are lining up to trash Google’s AI ethics council The independent council was meant to help Google’s public image, but the blowback shows just how fraught—and politicized—use of AI is becoming. - by Will Knight <https://www.technologyreview.com/profile/will-knight/> - April 1, 2019 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613253/googles-ai-council-faces-blowback… -- Arturo Di Corinto www.dicorinto.it ---------------------------------> AVVERTENZE AI SENSI DEL D.Lgs. 196/2003 Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica e/o nel/i file/s allegato/i sono da considerarsi strettamente riservate. Il loro utilizzo è consentito esclusivamente al destinatario del messaggio, per le finalità indicate nel messaggio stesso. Qualora riceviate questo messaggio senza esserne il destinatario, Vi preghiamo cortesemente di darcene notizia via e-mail e di procedere alla distruzione del messaggio stesso, cancellandolo dal Vostro sistema. Conservare il messaggio stesso, divulgarlo anche in parte, distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo, od utilizzarlo per finalità diverse, costituisce comportamento contrario ai principi dettati dal D.Lgs. 196/2003

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Hey Google, sorry you lost your ethics council, so we made one for you
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 6, 2019

April 6, 2019

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613281/google-cancels-ateac-ai-ethics-co… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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From AI to ML to AI: On Swirling Nomenclature & Slurried Thought – Approximately Correct
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 6, 2019

April 6, 2019

http://approximatelycorrect.com/2018/06/05/ai-ml-ai-swirling-nomenclature-s… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source—A Dozen Reason
by Giacomo Tesio April 5, 2019

April 5, 2019

https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-open-source-a-doz… At the risk of provoking the fundamentalist end of the open-source community, I thought I would share some of my views in this blog. [...] Much of this blog could be summed up with two answers: (1) free, open-source software can be very good, but it isn’t good at doing what we are trying to do; with a large fraction of the reason being (2) open source distributes design over small, self-assembling groups who individually tackle parts of an overall task, but large-scale, unified design needs centralized control and sustained effort. I came up with 12 reasons why I think that it would not have been possible to create the Wolfram technology stack using a free and open-source model. I would be interested to hear your views in the comments section below the blog. - A coherent vision requires centralized design - High-level languages need more design than low-level languages - You need multidisciplinary teams to unify disparate fields - Hard cases and boring stuff need to get done too - Crowd-sourced decisions can be bad for you - Our developers work for you, not just themselves - Unified computation requires unified design - Unified representation requires unified design - Open source doesn’t bring major tech innovation to market - Paid software offers an open quid pro quo - It takes steady income to sustain long-term R&D - Bad design is expensive [...] FOSS development tends to react to immediate user needs—specific functionality, existing workflows or emulation of existing closed-source software. Major innovations require anticipating needs that users do not know they have and addressing them with solutions that are not constrained by an individual’s experience. [...] Open source often does create ecosystems that encourage many small-scale innovations, but while bolder innovations do widely exist at the early experimental stages, they often fail to be refined to the point of usefulness in large-scale adoption.

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When a black box is valuable
by antonio.vetro＠polito.it April 5, 2019

April 5, 2019

Il bicchiere mezzo pieno http://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6435/26?rss=1 AV == Sent from my wireless device ==

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Comment Facebook compte empêcher toute ingérence et manipulation pendant les européennes
by Alberto Cammozzo April 5, 2019

April 5, 2019

<https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2019/04/05/ingerence-etrangere-le-pla…> Ancien procureur spécialisé dans la cybercriminalité, un temps conseiller de Barack Obama à la Maison Blanche, Nathaniel Gleicher dirige désormais, chez Facebook, les équipes chargées de contrer les piratages informatiques et les opérations de propagande. Basé en Californie, il a passé trois semaines en Europe depuis le début de l’année à enchaîner les préparatifs pour l’élection européenne. Depuis 2016 et l’élection présidentielle américaine, la perspective de voir le scrutin manipulé par une puissance étrangère via les réseaux sociaux hante les responsables politiques. Nous avons rencontré Nathaniel Gleicher dans les locaux français de Facebook, jeudi 4 avril. Facebook est attendu au tournant pour les élections européennes. Quelle est votre stratégie ? Les élections européennes font partie de nos principales priorités. C’est un énorme défi : chaque pays européen organise une forme d’élection locale. Nous avons une équipe qui se consacre aux élections européennes depuis un petit moment. Nous avons réalisé une évaluation des menaces et des risques qui pèsent sur l’élection, il y a un mois et demi. Nous avons récemment organisé un exercice à Bruxelles : nous avons réuni des gens venus de toute l’entreprise pour simuler l’élection et anticiper les menaces qui pourraient émerger.

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data as commons
by Giuseppe Attardi April 5, 2019

April 5, 2019

This is an idea that I have been proposing since a while (the first time at the GARR Conference 2018 in Cagliari): "Under this system, every company above a certain size, say, those with more than a ten percent share of the market, that systematically collects and analyzes data would have to let other companies in the same market access a subset of its data. " My argument was that personal data has infinitesimal value to individual users, therefore they are quite willing to relinquish it in exchange for what they consider some useful facility. However large collections of individual data have a huge value: but such a value is a collective one. Hence it should be considered a Commons. As with Commons, they should be not owned by anyone and cared for by a public organization. Who invests in collecting those data should have the possibility to exploit it according to the rules established by the Commons and maintain them available also for others to use on a fair basis. Any entity that reaches a relevant market share should be subject to this provisions. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2018-08-13/big-choice-big-tech

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New EU Report: “Competition policy for the digital era”
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 5, 2019

April 5, 2019

http://ec.europa.eu/competition/publications/reports/kd0419345enn.pdf (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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