by CDO Review Staff | Feb 4, 2019 | AI, Chief Data Officer
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has accepted the chairmanship of the federal government’s National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Schmidt, along with former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work and 13 others will form the advisory group that will...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 4, 2019 | AI, Chief Data Officer
Darren Soto, a Democratic congressman from Florida, is pushing a bill called the “A.I. Jobs Act” that will ask the Department of Labor to study the effects of A.I. development on the American workforce in conjunction with concerned businesses and educational...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 4, 2019 | AI, Chief Data Officer
Amazon Web Services has released SageMaker Neo, an open source Neo-AI project under the Apache Software License. This is seen as a boost to edge computing since the machine learning feature of SageMaker Neo can be run by computers with limited power and storage...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 4, 2019 | AI, Chief Data Officer
MIT-IBM researchers have found out that there is a trade-off between accuracy and robustness, and that a single minded pursuit of accuracy can get developers and users into trouble. Junko Yoshida explains the tradeoff in this article from EETimes: As a neural network...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 4, 2019 | AI, Chief Data Officer
A.I. systems, now being used for everything from determining how a prison sentence should be to the cost of premiums for health insurance, have come under attack for “hidden biases” that lie undetected in the system. Pros understand that if you train with biased data,...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 4, 2019 | AI, Chief Data Officer
Today’s AI market model features big tech companies dominating the landscape. But the mainstreaming of blockchain technologies, on-device AI, and edge computing into a new AI modelling paradigm called federated learning signals a future that might be more diverse and...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 4, 2019 | AI, Chief Data Officer
The billionaire philanthropist George Soros issued a clear warning against China’s use of AI technologies to keep tabs on their own people and control dissent. Speaking at the World Economic Forum at Davos in January, Soros said that China’s use of AI would “create a...
by CDO Review Staff | Feb 4, 2019 | AI, Chief Data Officer
A member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has proposed a ban on the use of facial recognition technologies by city agencies. The proposal has received support from the president of the Board of Supervisors, Norman Yee. Gregory Barber writes about the proposed...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Earlier this January, Apple trolled Google and Amazon with an ad saying “What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone.” Apple also added a link to apple.com/privacy to underline the Cupertino-based company’s privacy advantage over its top competitors. But Vlad...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 31, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Florida Senator Marco Rubio is touting a federal data privacy bill that is meant to supersede a hodge-podge of conflicting state laws. Here is an excerpt from a report from Fortune: The bill, titled the American Data Dissemination Act, requires the Federal Trade...
