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Cyber security for the AI age

Futurum

Talk like a cyber security expert Cyber security — the protections and measures taken against digital threats, namely cyber criminals Generative AI — artificial intelligence that is capable of generating media (such as text or images). It is estimated that software supply chain attacks hit 60% of companies in 2021.

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I, chatbot: How ‘human’ should chatbots be?

Futurum

Published: Love them or hate them, chatbots are having an increasing role in the technological space, now that artificial intelligence has developed to a stage where they can be genuinely useful in fields such as healthcare, defence and finance. Understanding how it fits alongside ethical and social implications is very important.

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Creating software that works for everyone

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John agrees that combining studies in computing with science, social science or business courses will not only give you a broader education but will allow you to apply your software engineering skills in a wider range of applications (e.g., I am proud of many of my achievements in my studies and career.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

Here’s how the “loss” evolves (over the course of 100 generations) for a collection of paths: And what we see is that there’s only one “winner” here that achieves zero loss; on all the other paths, evolution “gets stuck”. But what happens with other paths? As we mentioned above, though, with more “dimensions” one’s less likely to get stuck.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

For that was a time when the concepts of computing were first being worked out—and through approaches like cybernetics and the nascent area of artificial intelligence, people started exploring the broader scientific implications of computational ideas. Sometimes the models have been purely empirical (“Look, there’s a power law!”).

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

Given a defined “goal”, an AI can automatically work towards achieving it. Most of our existing intuition about “machinery” and “automation” comes from a kind of “clockwork” view of engineering—in which we specifically build systems component by component to achieve objectives we want. And that’s where we humans come in.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

Ed was never officially a “test pilot”, but he told me stories about figuring out how to take his plane higher than anyone else—and achieving weightlessness by flying his plane in a perfect free-fall trajectory by maintaining an eraser floating in midair in front of him.