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February 2024
- 44 participants
- 152 messages
Re: [nexa] OpenAI developing software that operates devices, automates tasks
by 380°
Buongiorno,
grazie per la segnalazione!
Daniela Tafani <daniela.tafani(a)unipi.it> writes:
> "by taking over a users' device"!
più o meno come fanno il 95% dei sistemi operativi installati sugli
users' devices? :-D
> OpenAI developing software that operates devices, automates tasks
> February 7, 2024
>
> Microsoft-backed OpenAI is working on a type of agent software to
> automate complex tasks by taking over a users' device, The Information
> reported on Wednesday, citing a person with knowledge on the matter.
oh mamma l'ennesimo "assistant", evidentemente i "device" degli utenti
sono Troppo Complicati™ da utilizzare, abbiamo bisogno di facilitatori.
Incredibile constatare come /storicamente/ i reparti *marketing* (che
sono quelli che determinano l'agenda dei reparti R&D) non imparano mai
nulla dai propri errori:
- Bob, 1995, rititato nel 1996:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Agent
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_(virtual_assistant)
... e l'ultima evoluzione: Copilot!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Copilot
> The agent software will handle web-based tasks
un Copilot con accesso automatico al conto corrente delle vostre banche! :-D
«Alexa, ricordati di pagare il bollo auto...ah, e la multa
dell'autovelox"»
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
According to Alan Cooper, the "Father of Visual Basic", the concept of
Clippit was based on a "tragic misunderstanding" of research conducted
at Stanford University, showing that the same part of the brain in use
while using a mouse or keyboard was also responsible for emotional
reactions while interacting with other human beings and thus is the
reason people yell at their computer monitors.[11] Microsoft concluded
that if humans reacted to computers the same way they react to other
humans, it would be beneficial to include a human-like face in their
software.[11] As people already related to computers directly as they do
with humans, the added human-like face emerged as an annoying interloper
distracting the user from the primary conversation.[11]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant#History)
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Cortana indexed and stored user information. Cortana could have been
disabled; this caused Windows search to search Bing as well as the local
computer, but that also could have been disabled. Turning Cortana off
did not in itself delete user data stored on Microsoft's servers, but
data were able to be deleted by user action.[89] Microsoft was further
criticized for requests to Bing's website for a file called
"threshold.appcache", which contained Cortana's information through
searches made through the Start Menu, even when Cortana was disabled on
Windows 10.[90][91]
As of April 2014, Cortana was disabled for users aged under 13
years.[92]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortana_(virtual_assistant)#Privacy_concerns)
Evidenzio come i "concerns" relativi alla privacy *pare* stiano
gradualmente sparendo con l'introduzione di Copilot, evidentemente con
l'introduzione dell'AI... cambia tutto. (?)
> such as gathering public data about a set of companies, creating
> itineraries or booking flight tickets, according to the report, opens
> new tab.
«Where do you want to go today?» (1994, Microsoft)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_do_you_want_to_go_today%3F
"open new tab" (autonomamente o su richiesta?) è una killer feature,
direi!
> The new assistants - often called "agents" - promise to perform more
> complex personal and work tasks when commanded to by a human, without
> needing close supervision. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a
> request for comment.
Sono timidi.
Saluti, 380°
--
380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego)
«Noi, incompetenti come siamo,
non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché»
Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice
but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.
Feb. 9, 2024
siamo davvero irripetibili? was: sistemi di IA e scrittura
by alessandro marzocchi
Siamo davvero irripetibili?
Mi appassiona la domanda: davvero i nostri cervelli funzionano diversamente
dall'IA?
Cordialmente,
Duccio (Alessandro Marzocchi)
Il 9 feb 2024 alle ore 12:00 <nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it> Daniela
Tafani ha scritto:
>
> Grazie della segnalazione, Maurizio.
> Sono domande che Joseph Weizenbaum poneva, anche a proposito della
> comprensione del linguaggio naturale,
> in Computer power and human reason:
>
> The second kind of computer application that ought to be avoided, or at
> least not undertaken without very careful forethought,
> is that which can easily be seen to have irreversible and not entirely
> foreseeable side effects. If, in addition, such an application cannot
> be shown to meet a pressing human need that cannot readily be met in any
> other way, then it ought not to be pursued. The latter stricture
> follows directly from the argument I have already presented about the
> scarcity of human intelligence.
> The example I wish to cite here is that of the automatic recognition of
> human speech. There are now three or four major
> projects in the United States devoted to enabling computers to understand
> human speech, that is, to programming them in such a
> way that verbal speech directed at them can be converted into the same
> internal representations that would result if what had been said
> to them had been typed into their consoles.
> The problem, as can readily be seen, is very much more complicated than
> that of natural-language understanding as such, for
> in order to understand a stream of coherent speech, the language in which
> that speech is rendered must be understood in the first place.
> The solution of the "speech-understanding problem" therefore presupposes
> the solution of the "natural-language-understanding
> problem." And we have seen that, for the latter, we have only "the tiniest
> bit of relevant knowledge." But I am not here concerned with
> the technical feasibility of the task, nor with any estimate of just how
> little or greatly optimistic we might be about its completion.
> Why should we want to undertake this task at all? I have asked this
> question of many enthusiasts for the project. The most cheerful
> answer I have been able to get is that it will help physicians record
> their medical notes and then translate these notes into action more
> efficiently. Of course, anything that has any ostensible connection to
> medicine is automatically considered good. But here we have to
> remember that the problem is so enormous that only the largest possible
> computers will ever be able to manage it. In other words,
> even if the desired system were successfully designed, it would probably
> require a computer so large and therefore so expensive
> that only the largest and best-endowed hospitals could possibly afford
> it—but in fact the whole system might be so prohibitively
> expensive that even they could not afford it. The question then becomes,
> is this really what medicine needs most at this time?
> Would not the talent, not to mention the money and the resources it
> represents, be better spent on projects that attack more urgent and
> more fundamental problems of health care?
> But then, this alleged justification of speech-recognition "research" is
> merely a rationalization anyway. (I put the word
> "research" in quotation marks because the work I am here discussing is
> mere tinkering. I have no objection to serious scientists
> studying the psycho-physiology of human speech recognition.) If one asks
> such questions of the principal sponsor of this work, the
> Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department
> of Defense, as was recently done at an open meeting,
> the answer given is that the Navy hopes to control its ships, and the
> other services their weapons, by voice commands. This project then
> represents, in the eyes of its chief sponsor, a long step toward a fully
> automated battlefield. I see no reason to advise my students to lend
> their talents to that aim.
> I have urged my students and colleagues to ask still another question
> about this project: Granted that a speech-recognition
> machine is bound to be enormously expensive, and that only governments and
> possibly a very few very large corporations will
> therefore be able to afford it, what will they use it for? What can it
> possibly be used for? There is no question in my mind that there is
> no pressing human problem that will more easily be solved because such
> machines exist. But such listening machines, could they be
> made, will make monitoring of voice communication very much easier than it
> now is. Perhaps the only reason that there is very little
> government surveillance of telephone conversations in many countries of
> the world is that such surveillance takes so much
> manpower. Each conversation on a tapped phone must eventually be listened
> to by a human agent. But speech-recognizing machines
> could delete all "uninteresting" conversations and present transcripts of
> only the remaining ones to their masters. I do not for a moment
> believe that we will achieve this capability within the future so clearly
> visible to Newell and Simon. But I do ask, why should a talented
> computer technologist lend his support to such a project? As a citizen I
> ask, why should my government spend approximately 2.5
> million dollars a year (as it now does) on this project?
>
> https://archive.org/details/computerpowerhum0000weiz_v0i3/page/270
>
> Un saluto,
> Daniela
> ________________________________________
> Da: nexa <nexa-bounces(a)server-nexa.polito.it> per conto di maurizio lana <
> maurizio.lana(a)uniupo.it>
> Inviato: giovedì 8 febbraio 2024 16:57
> A: NEXA ML
> Oggetto: [nexa] sistemi di IA e scrittura
>
> mi sono imbattuto in questo libro:
> Baron, Naomi S. Who wrote this? how AI and the lure of efficiency threaten
> human writing. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2023.
>
> nel capitolo finale l'autrice scrive:
> Imagine a world where AI’s current writing challenges have been solved.
> Where large language models (or their successors) don’t churn out ugliness.
> Where using them is energy efficient. Where predictive texting, spellcheck,
> and grammar programs are infallible. Where AI can produce lengthy texts
> that are non-repetitive, stylistically interesting, factually accurate, and
> always on topic. Oh, and can generate text that’s indistinguishable from
> what you might have written. Where would this world leave us humans?
> As we weigh options, keep in mind potential blowback of getting what we
> wish for. Cultural lore—be it of King Midas in Greek mythology, the
> recurrent “three wishes” stories across European tales, or W. W. Jacobs’s
> more modern “The Monkey’s Paw”—reminds us that attractive prospects may
> bear unforeseen consequences.
> lo trovo interessante perché molta parte della riflessione critica sui
> sistemi di AI si appunta su singoli aspetti mal-funzionanti/dis-funzionanti.
> mentre qui c'è una riflessione critica globale, 'a prescindere', che si
> esprime sui sistemi di IA ma che riguarda ogni ambito: è desiderabile/quali
> conseguenze ha, che in ogni campo ogni necessità sia risolta e ogni
> difficoltà operativa sia eliminata ?
> "teletrasporto per tutti a costo zero" e via in cima al monte Bianco con
> un tasto (in questo esempio si vede che sono proprio uno al pie' dei monti
> - piemontese): che cosa mi significherebbe?
>
> Maurizio
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> quanti nella loro vita
> si fecero custodi delle termopili,
> sono degni di più grande onore
> se prevedono (e molti lo prevedono)
> che all’ultimo comparirà un efialte
> e comunque i persiani passeranno
> kostantinos kavafis, termopili
>
> ________________________________
> Maurizio Lana
> Università del Piemonte Orientale
> Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
> Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli
>
>
>
>
Feb. 9, 2024
[GI-STS] Avviso di ANNULLAMENTO webinar del 16 febbraio
by Diego.Latella
Buongiorno,
Siamo spiacenti dover informare che il webinar su "Climate and
Humanitarian Consequences of an even Limited Nuclear Exchange and the
Actual Risks of Nuclear War"
con Venance Journé e Paolo Cotta Ramusino, previsto per il 16 febbraio
è stato annullato. Verrà riprogrammato a data da destinarsi.
Ci scusiamo
D. Latella, a nome del GI-STS
--
Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124
Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it)
FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it)
CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it)
https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, fax:
+390506212040
Feb. 9, 2024
Re: [nexa] sistemi di IA e scrittura
by Daniela Tafani
Grazie della segnalazione, Maurizio.
Sono domande che Joseph Weizenbaum poneva, anche a proposito della comprensione del linguaggio naturale,
in Computer power and human reason:
The second kind of computer application that ought to be avoided, or at least not undertaken without very careful forethought,
is that which can easily be seen to have irreversible and not entirely foreseeable side effects. If, in addition, such an application cannot
be shown to meet a pressing human need that cannot readily be met in any other way, then it ought not to be pursued. The latter stricture
follows directly from the argument I have already presented about the scarcity of human intelligence.
The example I wish to cite here is that of the automatic recognition of human speech. There are now three or four major
projects in the United States devoted to enabling computers to understand human speech, that is, to programming them in such a
way that verbal speech directed at them can be converted into the same internal representations that would result if what had been said
to them had been typed into their consoles.
The problem, as can readily be seen, is very much more complicated than that of natural-language understanding as such, for
in order to understand a stream of coherent speech, the language in which that speech is rendered must be understood in the first place.
The solution of the "speech-understanding problem" therefore presupposes the solution of the "natural-language-understanding
problem." And we have seen that, for the latter, we have only "the tiniest bit of relevant knowledge." But I am not here concerned with
the technical feasibility of the task, nor with any estimate of just how little or greatly optimistic we might be about its completion.
Why should we want to undertake this task at all? I have asked this question of many enthusiasts for the project. The most cheerful
answer I have been able to get is that it will help physicians record their medical notes and then translate these notes into action more
efficiently. Of course, anything that has any ostensible connection to medicine is automatically considered good. But here we have to
remember that the problem is so enormous that only the largest possible computers will ever be able to manage it. In other words,
even if the desired system were successfully designed, it would probably require a computer so large and therefore so expensive
that only the largest and best-endowed hospitals could possibly afford it—but in fact the whole system might be so prohibitively
expensive that even they could not afford it. The question then becomes, is this really what medicine needs most at this time?
Would not the talent, not to mention the money and the resources it represents, be better spent on projects that attack more urgent and
more fundamental problems of health care?
But then, this alleged justification of speech-recognition "research" is merely a rationalization anyway. (I put the word
"research" in quotation marks because the work I am here discussing is mere tinkering. I have no objection to serious scientists
studying the psycho-physiology of human speech recognition.) If one asks such questions of the principal sponsor of this work, the
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense, as was recently done at an open meeting,
the answer given is that the Navy hopes to control its ships, and the other services their weapons, by voice commands. This project then
represents, in the eyes of its chief sponsor, a long step toward a fully automated battlefield. I see no reason to advise my students to lend
their talents to that aim.
I have urged my students and colleagues to ask still another question about this project: Granted that a speech-recognition
machine is bound to be enormously expensive, and that only governments and possibly a very few very large corporations will
therefore be able to afford it, what will they use it for? What can it possibly be used for? There is no question in my mind that there is
no pressing human problem that will more easily be solved because such machines exist. But such listening machines, could they be
made, will make monitoring of voice communication very much easier than it now is. Perhaps the only reason that there is very little
government surveillance of telephone conversations in many countries of the world is that such surveillance takes so much
manpower. Each conversation on a tapped phone must eventually be listened to by a human agent. But speech-recognizing machines
could delete all "uninteresting" conversations and present transcripts of only the remaining ones to their masters. I do not for a moment
believe that we will achieve this capability within the future so clearly visible to Newell and Simon. But I do ask, why should a talented
computer technologist lend his support to such a project? As a citizen I ask, why should my government spend approximately 2.5
million dollars a year (as it now does) on this project?
https://archive.org/details/computerpowerhum0000weiz_v0i3/page/270
Un saluto,
Daniela
________________________________________
Da: nexa <nexa-bounces(a)server-nexa.polito.it> per conto di maurizio lana <maurizio.lana(a)uniupo.it>
Inviato: giovedì 8 febbraio 2024 16:57
A: NEXA ML
Oggetto: [nexa] sistemi di IA e scrittura
mi sono imbattuto in questo libro:
Baron, Naomi S. Who wrote this? how AI and the lure of efficiency threaten human writing. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2023.
nel capitolo finale l'autrice scrive:
Imagine a world where AI’s current writing challenges have been solved. Where large language models (or their successors) don’t churn out ugliness. Where using them is energy efficient. Where predictive texting, spellcheck, and grammar programs are infallible. Where AI can produce lengthy texts that are non-repetitive, stylistically interesting, factually accurate, and always on topic. Oh, and can generate text that’s indistinguishable from what you might have written. Where would this world leave us humans?
As we weigh options, keep in mind potential blowback of getting what we wish for. Cultural lore—be it of King Midas in Greek mythology, the recurrent “three wishes” stories across European tales, or W. W. Jacobs’s more modern “The Monkey’s Paw”—reminds us that attractive prospects may bear unforeseen consequences.
lo trovo interessante perché molta parte della riflessione critica sui sistemi di AI si appunta su singoli aspetti mal-funzionanti/dis-funzionanti.
mentre qui c'è una riflessione critica globale, 'a prescindere', che si esprime sui sistemi di IA ma che riguarda ogni ambito: è desiderabile/quali conseguenze ha, che in ogni campo ogni necessità sia risolta e ogni difficoltà operativa sia eliminata ?
"teletrasporto per tutti a costo zero" e via in cima al monte Bianco con un tasto (in questo esempio si vede che sono proprio uno al pie' dei monti - piemontese): che cosa mi significherebbe?
Maurizio
________________________________
quanti nella loro vita
si fecero custodi delle termopili,
sono degni di più grande onore
se prevedono (e molti lo prevedono)
che all’ultimo comparirà un efialte
e comunque i persiani passeranno
kostantinos kavafis, termopili
________________________________
Maurizio Lana
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli
Feb. 8, 2024
sistemi di IA e scrittura
by maurizio lana
mi sono imbattuto in questo libro:
Baron, Naomi S. /Who wrote this? how AI and the lure of efficiency
threaten human writing/. Stanford, California: Stanford University
Press, 2023.
nel capitolo finale l'autrice scrive:
> Imagine a world where AI’s current writing challenges have been
> solved. Where large language models (or their successors) don’t churn
> out ugliness. Where using them is energy efficient. Where predictive
> texting, spellcheck, and grammar programs are infallible. Where AI can
> produce lengthy texts that are non-repetitive, stylistically
> interesting, factually accurate, and always on topic. Oh, and can
> generate text that’s indistinguishable from what you might have
> written. Where would this world leave us humans?
> As we weigh options, keep in mind potential blowback of getting what
> we wish for. Cultural lore—be it of King Midas in Greek mythology, the
> recurrent “three wishes” stories across European tales, or W. W.
> Jacobs’s more modern “The Monkey’s Paw”—reminds us that attractive
> prospects may bear unforeseen consequences.
lo trovo interessante perché molta parte della riflessione critica sui
sistemi di AI si appunta su singoli aspetti mal-funzionanti/dis-funzionanti.
mentre qui c'è una riflessione critica globale, 'a prescindere', che si
esprime sui sistemi di IA ma che riguarda ogni ambito: è
desiderabile/quali conseguenze ha, che in ogni campo ogni necessità sia
risolta e ogni difficoltà operativa sia eliminata ?
"teletrasporto per tutti a costo zero" e via in cima al monte Bianco con
un tasto (in questo esempio si vede che sono proprio uno al pie' dei
monti - piemontese): che cosa mi significherebbe?
Maurizio
------------------------------------------------------------------------
quanti nella loro vita
si fecero custodi delle termopili,
sono degni di più grande onore
se prevedono (e molti lo prevedono)
che all’ultimo comparirà un efialte
e comunque i persiani passeranno
kostantinos kavafis, termopili
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Maurizio Lana
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli
Feb. 8, 2024
"Foresight & Innovation" (online training)
by Alberto Robiati
Buon pomeriggio a tutte/i,
vi segnaliamo questo percorso formativo online che stiamo lanciando come
associazione Forwardto su metodi, competenze, processi e mentalità
funzionali a esplorare scenari futuri long-term allo scopo di costruire
strategie e progetti trasformativi nel presente e nel futuro prossimo.
Sul sito si trovano contenuti, calendario e orari, modalità, costi:
"FORESIGHT & INNOVATION" online training:
www.forwardto.thinkific.com
Partirà il 13 marzo, e prosegue ogni mercoledi dalle 17, su Zoom
(previsto un prezzo Early Bird fino al 18 febbraio).
Un saluto
--
Alberto Robiati
+39 334 6189250
/"Il futuro non esiste, ma può essere immaginato"/
/Founder & Director/
*Forwardto - Studi e competenze per scenari futuri
* www.forwardto.it <http://www.forwardto.it>
Feb. 8, 2024
Call “REBEL YELL: portare il futuro al livello successivo” | workshop 28 febbraio 2024 con Forwardto
by Francesca Fattorini
REBEL YELL: portare il futuro al livello successivo
Sii protagonista nelle transizioni! Partecipa al laboratorio
foresight&worldbuilding
ideato da Forwardto - Studi e competenze per scenari futuri nell’ambito
del Festival Digitale Popolare!
📅 Quando: MERCOLEDÌ 28 FEBBRAIO 2024, h. 9:30-18:30
📍 Dove: OFF TOPIC (v. Pallavicino 35 – Torino)
Il contesto:
Il mondo sta vivendo trasformazioni epocali e la Fondazione Italia Digitale,
attraverso il suo Festival Digitale Popolare "Futura - A misura di umanità”,
vuole affrontare le sfide digitali dei prossimi anni. Insieme a Forwardto,
un gruppo di giovani esplorerà scenari, visioni e aspirazioni, e
progetterà “prototipi
ribelli di futuro”.
Partecipando puoi imparare a:
-
attivare il foresight mindset, una mentalità orientata al futuro,
fondamentale per affrontare le sfide del domani
-
esplorare i cambiamenti, analizzando megatrend, tendenze e fenomeni
emergenti per comprendere le forze che plasmeranno il nostro futuro
-
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Chi stiamo cercando:
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Chi siamo:
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Feb. 8, 2024
Re: [nexa] il futuro che vale la pena vivere sarà in presenza
by alessandro marzocchi
Il futuro che vale la pena vivere sarà in presenza ma ... le persone, i
loro cervelli menti ecc, cambieranno significativamente e questo è ciò che
più mi interessa.
Vedo la transizione digitale come evento epocale, paragonabile solo ad un
paio d'altri, linguaggio e scrittura.
Cordialmente
Duccio (Alessandro Marzocchi)
Il 6 feb 2024 alle ore 19:39 Enrico Nardelli ha scritto
> Completamente d'accordo Filippo. Gli spazi fisici non sono sostituibili.
> Ciao, Enrico
>
Feb. 6, 2024
Re: [nexa] il futuro che vale la pena vivere sarà in presenza
by Enrico Nardelli
Completamente d'accordo Filippo. Gli spazi fisici non sono sostituibili.
Ciao, Enrico
Il 06/02/2024 19:04, Filippo Barbera ha scritto:
> Gli spazi fisici non sono sostituibili. Prima di tutto perché noi
> agiamo attraverso i nostri corpi. Questo ha delle conseguenze
> importanti sulle relazioni e sulle interazioni.
>
> È il tema centrale del mio libro, uscito da qualche mese per Laterza.
>
> Se vi interessa, lo segnalo qui:
>
> https://www.laterza.it/scheda-libro/?isbn=9788858152539
>
> Questo venerdì lo presento a Milano alla casa della cultura👇
>
> https://www.casadellacultura.it/casa-della-cultura-incontri-testo.php?id=44…
>
> Un saluto
> Filippo
>
>
>
> Il giorno martedì 6 febbraio 2024, Enrico Nardelli
> <nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it> ha scritto:
>
> Il 05/02/2024 19:23, 380° ha scritto:
>> Buonasera Enrico,
>>
>> premetto che sto rispondendo "a caldo" e non ho letto la notizia, spero
>> io non mi stia perdendo qualche "dettaglio" importante.
>
> Perdonami, ma sarebbe bene leggere ciò che viene segnalato, prima
> di rispondere, altrimenti temo che non facciamo molti passi avanti
> in termini di comunicazione.
>
> 1) Né la notizia che ho segnalato né il mio post di commento
> sostenevano la posizione che il deepkafe (o il copyright) fossero
> i problemi più importanti dell'AI.
>
> 2) Non è stato il CFO a pagare i 25 M$ ma un impiegato che è stato
> indotto a farlo da una videocall collettiva in cui TUTTI (incluso
> il CFO) erano deepfake.
>
> Il mio scopo era richiamare l'interesse sull'aspetto sociologico
> ed epistemologico della questione. Dopo una pandemia che ha
> costretto tutti a tappe molto forzate a spostare molte interazioni
> sul piano digitale, inizia ad emergere che forse ci sono anche
> parecchi elementi negativi in questa dematerializzazione delle
> relazioni umane.
>
> Da cui ho speculato nel mio post che in futuro, visto che la
> specie umana mi pare intelligente e resiliente, ci sarà un
> recupero del livello fisico nelle relazioni.
>
> Ciao, Enrico
>
>
>> Parto dalla fine: il deepfake e il copyright sono l'ultimo dei problemi
>> con l'AI; non fermiamoci alla pagliuzza nell'occhio, guardiamo la trave.
>>
>> Enrico Nardelli<nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it> <mailto:nardelli@mat.uniroma2.it> writes:
>>
>>> *Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake
>>> ‘chief financial officer’
>>> *
>>>
>>> https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hn… <https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hn…>
>>>
>>> A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25
>>> million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s
>>> chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong
>>> Kong police. The elaborate scam saw the worker duped into attending a
>>> video call
>> su Skype o una roba del genere, ovviamente?!?!... ROTFL :-D
>>
>>> with what he thought were several other members of staff, but
>>> all of whom were in fact deepfake recreations, Hong Kong police said at
>>> a briefing on Friday.
>>>
>>> ----
>>>
>>> da cui la mia riflessione: «i soli avvenimenti ai quali potremo davvero
>>> credere in futuro saranno quelli che avverranno alla nostra presenza»
>> La prima cosa che mi è venuta in mente è un flash (vado a memoria) di
>> una intervista a Kevin Mitnick nella quale spiegava come gli era facile
>> applicare le sue tecniche di social engineering attraverso il "social"
>> dell'epoca: **il telefono**... senza nemmeno doversi preoccupare di
>> imitare le voci (altro che deepfake umano o AI che sia).
>>
>> La seconda è che credo che una storia analoga sia già stata segnalata in
>> lista ma che la truffa sia stata perpetrata via email (bucata); un'altra
>> riguardava uno scam via Twitter... cerco con calma
>>
>> In ogni caso, anche senza scomodare gli Ocean's Eleven o lo scherzo
>> delle spie - opz comici - russe a Giorgia Meloni, putroppo sono
>> all'ordine del giorno truffe **in presenza**, di cui spesso sono vittime
>> persone anziane: finti appartenenti alle forze dell'ordine, finti addetti
>> delle aziende municipalizzate, finte vittime di urti con gli specchietti
>> delle auto... «il visagista delle dive è truccatissimo» (cit.).
>>
>> Quindi: ma davvero un "financial officier" sgancia 25 milioni... sulla
>> parola?!? Che razza di processi di gestione implementano le grandi
>> imprese... e le istituzioni finanziarie?!?
>>
>> Firma di qua, firma elettronica di la, SPID, CIE, second factor
>> autentication... e poi si decidono cose del genere in videoconferenza
>> :-D
>>
>> Ma è solo il mio alter ego a essere un filo paranoico anche solo per
>> sganciare 1000€ [1]?!? :-O Me perplesso.
>>
>>> presentata qua
>>> https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/intelligenza-artificiale-generativa-ris… <https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/intelligenza-artificiale-generativa-ris…>
>> ...mi manca, vado a leggere!
>>
>> Ciao, 380°
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> [1] sicuramente è perché è brianzolo.
>>
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> Direttore del Laboratorio Nazionale "Informatica e Scuola" del CINI
> Dipartimento di Matematica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
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>
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>
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>
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> NEW!!!!
>
>
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Prof. Enrico Nardelli
Past President di "Informatics Europe"
Direttore del Laboratorio Nazionale "Informatica e Scuola" del CINI
Dipartimento di Matematica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma
home page: https://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli
blog: https://link-and-think.blogspot.it/
tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699
mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it
online meeting: https://blue.meet.garr.it/b/enr-y7f-t0q-ont
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