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AI IN ROBOTICS AND JOBS
RODNEY BROOKS
Rodney Brooks is worried that
expectations for robotics
and AI have become sky
high, and that CEOs of
companies of all sizes are having
to make decisions when all around
them machine learning and Artificial
Intelligence are being enthusiastically
promoted as either the technology of
plenty, or technology of
dystopia.
In September 2017 he wrote an
essay about the seven common
mistakes that people make in
predicting the future of AI. Here
is a distillation of his essay.
Conquering the
New IoT Security
Challenges
Along-term process which
the cyber security industry
is battling with is the impact computers under the control of
that the Internet of Things
is already having on the landscape.
Soon billions upon billions of devices
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In general people tend to
overestimate technology in the short
term, but underestimate it in the long
term as they have done since the
1960s. We are in a similar position
with AI and Machine Learning today.
People are being hugely optimistic of
how quickly it will disrupt all sorts of
industries.
Those industries need a strategy to
cope, but if the impact is not going to
happen as quickly as many pundits
predict, it will require more nuance in
the selected strategy, and more room
to adapt to a stretching time frame.
There are many reasons why people
will be integrated into the IoT. But in
the design of most of these devices,
convenience and innovation has
trumped the need for security. Already
we are seeing the emergence of
terrifyingly large ‘botnets’, zombie
criminals, facilitated by the computing
power of the IoT. This will increase the
possibility of major attacks on the so-
called ‘critical national infrastructure,’ and C-Suites around the world. You
i.e. the worlds of finance, comms,
utilities and more.
Governments are doing their level
best to provide advice. But so much
of the tech infrastructure is in private
hands that it means individuals,
companies and institutions are
essentially on their own when it comes
are currently overestimating how
quickly AI/ML technology will reach
particular levels of capability. Click
here to read why.
Former MIT Professor Rodney
Brooks is a roboticist and Co-
founder of iRobot.
to cyber security. The cheapest way
of increasing security is to ensure
that all employees are fully aware
of how good digital hygiene needs
to be integrated into the everyday
operations of all companies. And that
means overcoming the mighty barriers
thrown up by silo cultures and the
relative aloofness and lack of interest
which are common to many boards
either face down this issue, or you are
putting your entire company on the
line.
Misha Glenny is a journalist
specialising in global organised
crime and cybersecurity. He is
also an author and executive
producer.
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