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Alphabet's Schmidt wants Silicon Valley to help develop military AI
by Giacomo Tesio April 19, 2018

April 19, 2018

> > > Alphabet board member and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has told the US > government that the military and private tech firms should work together to > ensure that the US Department of Defense is equipped with the AI systems he > says it will need to win future conflicts http://www.wired.co.uk/article/wired-awake-190418 Sarebbe inquietante, se non fosse scontato... Giacomo

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Pearson Tested 'Social-Psychological' Messages in Learning Software, With Mixed Results
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 18, 2018

April 18, 2018

ma prego, fate pure, senza chiedere niente a nessuno... jc Pearson Tested 'Social-Psychological' Messages in Learning Software, With Mixed Results By Benjamin Herold April 17, 2018 New York The idea of inserting "social-psychological interventions" into learning software is gaining steam, raising both hopes and fears about the ways the ed-tech industry might seek to capitalize on recent research into the impact of students' mindsets on their learning. One big new example, presented here today as part of the annual conference of the American Association of Educational Research: Publishing giant Pearson recently conducted an experiment involving more than 9,000 unwitting students at 165 different U.S. colleges and universities. Without seeking prior consent from participating institutions or individuals, the company embedded "growth-mindset" and other psychological messaging into some versions of one of its commercial learning software programs. The company then randomly assigned different colleges to use different versions of that software, tracking whether students who received the messages attempted and completed more problems than their counterparts at other institutions. continua qui: http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25920011&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.or… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Arrestato nella folla grazie al riconoscimento facciale
by Diego Giorio April 16, 2018

April 16, 2018

E lo sapevo che prima o poi sarebbe successo. E' stato prima. Il fatto in sè è positivo, se un terrorista o un criminale vengono individuati. Però apre anche scenari inquietanti. Prossimo passo un'AI che manda direttamente i robot ad eseguire l'arresto? http://www.lastampa.it/2018/04/16/tecnologia/news/arrestato-dal-computer-in… [http://www.lastampa.it/rw/Pub/p4/2018/04/16/Tecnologia/Foto/RitagliWeb/478b…]<http://www.lastampa.it/2018/04/16/tecnologia/news/arrestato-dal-computer-in…> Arrestato dal computer in mezzo alla folla<http://www.lastampa.it/2018/04/16/tecnologia/news/arrestato-dal-computer-in…> www.lastampa.it La polizia cinese blocca un ricercato fra altre 60mila persone grazie al riconoscimento facciale automatico Buona settimana a tutti D.

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Data Quality: standards e applicazione | 18 aprile, Torino
by Francesco Ruggiero April 16, 2018

April 16, 2018

Carissimi, mercoledì *18 aprile 2018*, dalle ore 12.30 alle ore 13.30, avrà luogo il *3°* *appuntamento* del ciclo d'incontri "*i Dauin Lunch Seminar*" presso la Sala Conferenze “Luigi Ciminiera” del Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica del Politecnico, in Corso Castelfidardo 34/D, Torino. Il seminario, dal titolo: *Data Quality: standards e applicazione*, sarà tenuto dal *Prof. Marco Torchiano* (Politecnico di Torino e Faculty Fellow del Centro Nexa). Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo: https://nexa.polito.it/dauin-lunch-seminars Sarà disponibile un leggero rinfresco per coloro che si saranno registrati entro il *15 aprile* su: https://dauin_lunch3.eventbrite.com In allegato la locandina. Grazie per l’attenzione, Francesco -- 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

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Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla formally object to W3C's DOM 4.1 spec
by Giacomo Tesio April 16, 2018

April 16, 2018

Salve, una piccola scaramuccia politica fra W3C e WHATWG che puo sembrare noiosa e da nerds, apre uno squarcio all'interno della mitologia del web che la Silicon Valley ha creato negli anni. Qui il link diretto alla (lunga) discussione https://github.com/w3c/dom/issues/175#issuecomment-380534425 (i fatti) Qui una analisi sintetica (ed un po' ironica) dei fatti da un punto di vista tecnico, storico ed internazionale: https://lobste.rs/s/rnaua1/apple_google_microsoft_mozilla_formally#c_3w5xas La discussione che è seguita mi ha fatto realizzare - che il web è *ancora* un'arma del DARPA molto più potente di quanto immaginato - che l'abbandono di tutto uno stack tecnologico basato su XML (XHTML, XLST etc...) non fu dovuto a problemi tecnici (che mi hanno sempre lasciato perplesso), ma all'obbiettivo di facilitare determinate applicazioni che il web semantico minavano - che *Javascript *non è solo un linguaggio il cui insegnamento dovrebbe essere punito dalla legge per i danni irreversibili che può procurare alle giovani menti, ma *è una vera e propria arma*!! In tutto il mondo, eseguiamo codice sui nostri computer controllato da aziende sotto il controllo degli stati uniti senza nemmeno pensarci - che WebAssembly sarà l'apice di questo processo, in cui perderemo completamente la possibilità di capire cosa stia girando sul nostro computer HTML5 non ha facilitato lo sviluppo del web, ne ha ridotto la qualità e ha privato gli utenti del controllo sul proprio consumo di contenuti. Abbiamo dato via il web semantico e l'accessibilità, per cosa? Per facilitare Ads, lock-in degli utenti, tracciature etc... Giacomo

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2 Workshops, London 25 & 26 June 2018 - Call for registration
by Teresa Scantamburlo April 16, 2018

April 16, 2018

Carissimi, vorrei segnalare questi 2 workshop a Londra: 1) "Ethical and social challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence," 25 June 2018, Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor SL4 2HP https://thinkbig.enm.bris.ac.uk/ethical-social-ai-workshop/ 2) "Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science," 26 June 2018, Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor SL4 2HP https://thinkbig.enm.bris.ac.uk/dh-css-workshop/ C'e' ancora qualche posto disponibile. Se qualcuno fosse interessato sulla pagina web dei 2 eventi potete trovare le indicazioni per la registrazione. Un caro saluto, Teresa Scantamburlo

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NYRB: "Reining in Big Data’s Robber Barons"
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 15, 2018

April 15, 2018

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS *"Reining in Big Data’s Robber Barons"** * /Jennifer Cobbe// / The use of Facebook by Cambridge Analytica to gather data on tens of millions of users is just one of the troubling things to have come to light about Facebook and its effect on social and political life. Yet that story is also, in some respects, a distraction from the bigger issues that stem from the Internet giants’ practices: Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other tech giants have constructed the most extensive and intrusive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. And we are the target. […] Continua qui: http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/04/12/reining-in-big-datas-robber-barons/

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Robot cognition requires machines that both think and feel
by Alberto Cammozzo April 14, 2018

April 14, 2018

Tutto molto sensato, ma quando le macchine saranno intelligenti come noi, avranno una mente come la nostra e sbaglieranno come noi, non è che non ne vorremo piu sapere? <https://aeon.co/ideas/robot-cognition-requires-machines-that-both-think-and…> For more than two millennia, Western thinkers have separated emotion from cognition – emotion being the poorer sibling of the two. Cognition helps to explain the nature of space-time and sends humans to the Moon. Emotion might save the lioness in the savannah, but it also makes humans act irrationally with disconcerting frequency. In the quest to create intelligent robots, designers tend to focus on purely rational, cognitive capacities. It’s tempting to disregard emotion entirely, or include only as much as necessary. But without emotion to help determine the personal significance of objects and actions, I doubt that true intelligence can exist – not the kind that beats human opponents at chess or the game of Go, but the sort of smarts that we humans recognise as such. Although we can refer to certain behaviours as either ‘emotional’ or ‘cognitive’, this is really a linguistic short-cut. The two can’t be teased apart. What counts as sophisticated, intelligent behaviour in the first place? Consider a crew of robots on a mission to Mars. To act intelligently, the robots can’t just scuttle about taking pictures of the environment and collecting dirt and mineral samples. They’d need to be able to figure out how to reach a target destination, and come up with alternative tactics if the most direct path is blocked. If pressed for time, the team of robots would have to know which materials are more important and to be prioritised as part of the expedition. Part of being intelligent, then, is about the ability to function autonomously in various conditions and environments. Emotion is helpful here because it allows an agent to piece together the most significant kinds of information. For example, emotion can instil a sense of urgency in actions and decisions. Imagine crossing a patch of desert in an unreliable car, during the hottest hours of the day. If the vehicle breaks down, what you need is a quick fix to get you to the next town, not a more permanent solution that might be perfect but could take many hours to complete in the beating sun. In real-world scenarios, a ‘good’ outcome is often all that’s required, but without the external pressure of perceiving a ‘stressful’ situation, an android might take too long trying to find the optimal solution. [...]

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Trump Orders Post Office Review After Attacks on Amazon
by Luigi Scorca April 13, 2018

April 13, 2018

https://www-bloomberg-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news…

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CEIPI Advanced Training on AI & IP - Final Program
by GC F April 12, 2018

April 12, 2018

Cari tutti, il programma finale del CEIPI Advanced Training in "Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property" è disponibile a questo link: http://www.ceipi.edu/fileadmin/upload/DUN/CEIPI/Documents/Seminaire_Intelli… Il corso si tiene al CEIPI di Strasburgo dal 24 al 26 maggio ed è organizzato in collaborazione con lo European Patent Office. Le iscrizioni sono ancora aperte. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili qui: http://www.ceipi.edu/en/news/piece-of-news/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=10059&cH… Rimango a disposizione per ulteriori chiarimenti. A presto, Giancarlo

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