There is often a fine line between the characters that technology play, and from many reports, artificial intelligence (AI) is about the dark side, sucking tasks from the market. Nowadays you can not throw a stone without hitting a few pundits prognosticating about the countless jobs which are going to be dropped from AI. 1 oft-cited Oxford University study called 47 percent of jobs will be in peril.
However, while AI conjures robots up and utopian science fiction films, it is not magic. Now's AI is made up of calculations developed by "training information" that enhance more than otherwise called machine learning. The outcome is much better pattern recognition as if Google appears to forecast exactly what you are looking for later studying a few words. What it finally means is the automation of this data market in precisely the exact same way in which the industrial revolution shifted manufacturing. Any occupation that involves manipulating or processing data within a repeatable or perhaps predictable manner is a project that likely will be automatic by AI and its kissing cousin robotic procedure automation ("RPA"). Colleges and universities have a lot of jobs similar to this. Not in the classroom, in mind you; both learning and teaching have a comparatively low amount of repeatability. But remember that just $0.21 from every tuition amount is in fact spent on schooling. That leaves a whole lot of repeatable processes that AI can automate. But what we're seeing thus far indicates predictions of enormous job reductions in higher education are far overblown. An article last month in the Chronicle of Higher Education concentrated on the way UT Austin is using AI to track and adapt landscape irrigation methods. The completely uncontroversial result isn't job reductions, but instead a massive advancement in water conservation and conservation price savings. Then there are admissions. Reviewing school applications is an extremely repeatable procedure, especially on the peak of the admissions funnel. University of Arizona's Dean of Undergraduate Admissions has remarked that AI will not be employed to "count anyone out mechanically," but may instead "assist to improve" the admissions team make great matches. Regardless of any strategies to reduce admissions personnel. Once it comes to interacting with pupils, we are watching a similar pattern: AI is not displacing employees but instead improving student expertise by completing current gaps in the support offering. From the registration and financial aid procedures, the Chronicle profiled Georgia State's usage of AI chatbot AdmitHub (a University Ventures portfolio company) to react to registration and financial aid inquiries. Tim Renick, GSU's lively VP for Enrollment Management and Student Success, states that at the run-up into the beginning of each session, his staff can get as many as 2,000 calls daily. That is quantity GSU can't manage: "We are not American Express. We do not have a call centre with 200 people" AdmitHub's chatbot makes it possible for pupils to ask any query in any way hours. The technology requires a statistical method of responding to queries. When it's significantly less than 95% sure of the response, it links the student to an individual team member. As you may anticipate, AdmitHub gets brighter with every query. In its very first summer in GSU, AdmitHub replied 200,000 inquiries and successfully decreased summer melt 20 percent. Data is the lifeblood of business, containing critical employee, customer and vendor information hackers want to steal and sell. Yet, according to Manta, a resource dedicated to small businesses, 87% of Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs) don’t feel they’re at risk of a data breach. These businesses, unprepared for a cyberattack, will falter when a breach occurs — and are likely to go out of business as a result. Is your business part of the 87%? If so, it’s time to revamp your security strategy. In order to run your business smarter, you need to run it safely. As shown in Figure 1, businesses that were breached between April 2016 and April 2017 were likely infiltrated by current and former employees (30% and 26%, respectively) before unknown hackers (23%). With those kinds of statistics, how can you guard against internal security threats? These four suggestions can help you ensure your environment is better protected:
Maximize your go-getter attitude (and wallet) with these gems.Are people done calling millennials lazy yet? Whether it’s taking part in the gig economy or being an entrepreneur on top of your 9 to 5, there’s some serious career juggling going on amongst the ambitious set nowadays, and it seems to me that we’re actually a generation of side hustlers. I should know. At 19, I started my first side hustle: a copywriting agency. What began as some extra cash on the side turned into a profitable pursuit and, after a year, I was hiring several freelancers to meet the demand. It increased my confidence, gave me work experience and helped me build my network. And of course, the extra cash doesn’t hurt. So, where does one get started rustling up a side hustle? And with only so many hours in the day, how do you even find the time to get started? With a day job and social life in tow, side jobs can seem like a stretch, but they don’t have to be a huge time commitment. Here are 20 low-hustle side hustle ideas that are worth considering no matter your skillset. All you need is a little motivation and WiFi to get started
Hello readers, some of you may know by now that, Swedish music producer Avicii was pronounced dead at the age of 28. Today is a very sad day for the electronic music community. However, instead of remembering this sad moment, I choose to remember Avicii's best moments. I had the pleasure of interviewing Avicii during his best moments, therefore, I will share with you my article "A Peek into the Dream Life of Avicii" Article: ALEGRIA MAGAZINE. [DIGITAL TRENDS] Finally, an A.I. voice assistant that doesn’t collect and monetize your data4/17/2018 Science fiction is full of sinister sentient computers. The most famous is, of course, HAL 9000, the artificially intelligent ship’s computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, which gains self awareness and sets about murdering its crew. But HAL’s got some equally villainous pals — such as the Ultimate Computer from Superman III, Proteus IV from Demon Seed, Colossus from The Forbin Project, and, of course, Skynet from Terminator.
However, while silver screen A.I. is almost always evil, science fiction does have at least one sentient computer that isn’t so sinister. Mike (an abbreviation of Mycroft, the name of Sherlock Holmes’ brother) is a fun-loving supercomputer from Robert Heinlein’s classic sci-fi novel, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. A character as far removed from the cold, austere as HAL as is possible, Mike becomes the best friend of the book’s narrator, and a key driver in the fight for freedom in the novel’s lunar society. He is a sentient supercomputer on humanity’s side. Here in reality, we don’t have a sentient computer that’s truly on our side — but we might, soon. The Mycroft Mark II, as it’s called, is a new smart speaker that recently landed on Kickstarter, and, unlike the more familiar models such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home, this one has our best interests in mind. Or so its creator, Kansas-based creator Joshua Montgomery is keen to stress. Montgomery’s goal with Mycroft is to build an open source alternative to the big tech giants’ A.I. assistants, and one that promises to protect your privacy in the process. “[Companies like Google and Amazon want to] wall you into an ecosystem that they control, and then monetize you,” he told Digital Trends. “Our goal is to provide you with the best experience possible. We want to build a technology that represents you.” Kimberly (Azmeena) Page Director Business DevelopmentAfrica is often a forgotten continent in the tech world. However, blockchain is set to boom in a big way across the landscape; in fact, it has already begun to.There are an increasing number of examples like this–NewsBTC reported that at least fifteen new trading ventures have sprouted up in South Africa across the past year. Additionally, the Kenya-based payment platform and money transfer service bitPesa has developed working relationships with at least 60 banks, and operates seven mobile wallets. BitHub Africa, an organization based in Nairobi, is seeking to fund local startups to boost blockchain adoption. The Capetown-based Blockchain Academy has engaged in community initiatives to educate local business owners and residents about the advantages of using blockchain in financial procedures.
There have also been a rising number of blockchain firms who have taken social responsibility very seriously as their presence has grown stronger in the continent. Just last week, mobile blockchain financial services platform Wala formed a strategic partnership with several other blockchain firms to lend $10 million worth of crypto tokens to sub-Saharan farmers. Over the past 10 years there has been a growing body of scientific evidence that a specific type of computerized cognitive training (CCT) has the potential to raise IQ significantly – namely working memory training. Commercial CCT comes in many forms. Many brain training companies divide training between different types of cognitive processing such as speed, memory, attention, and so on. In the light of all the studies done on these different types of training, it is only working memory training that has demonstrated real potential for increasing intelligence. What is working memory?Working memory can be thought of as our ‘mental workspace’. Imagine your mind as a white board that is constantly being written on, while you organize and do calculations with the material before erasing it as you shift your focus from one task to the next – that is your working memory system. More formally, working memory is a short term memory and management system that “provides temporary storage and manipulation of the information necessary for such complex cognitive tasks as language comprehension, learning, and reasoning.” Baddeley, 2003, p. 189 Individuals differ in their working memory capacity – i.e. the quantity of information they can maintain and process. Working memory capacity correlates highly with IQ.
This makes sense, as you can imagine that more intelligent people have a larger mental ‘workspace’ and are able to make relatively more connections and inferences using this spacious workspace. How neuroscientists are learning to predict emotions with increasing accuracy.Brain scans can read human emotions with 90% accuracy, a new study finds. Researchers have been able to predict the intensity of negative emotions to evocative images. They found that negative emotions have a ‘neural signature’ which a computer could learn. Dr Luke Chang, who led the study, said: “This means that brain imaging has the potential to accurately uncover how someone is feeling without knowing anything about them other than their brain activity. REFINERY29 PREMIERES "ASIAN VERSION"
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