Fraudsters are constantly looking for new ways to scam their victims. One unique case gives the security industry a glimpse of what they could do with artificial intelligence (AI) and voice recording. As part of an incident in March, an attacker called the CEO of a UK-based energy business pretending to be the head of its German parent company. Analysts believe AI-based software was used to impersonate the chief executive's voice, as it had the slight German accent and other qualities the UK CEO recognized in his boss's voice -- qualities that led him to believe the call was legitimate. The caller issued an "urgent" request to the CEO, demanding he transfer $243,000 to a Hungarian supplier within an hour's time.

By Sciforce, software solutions based on science-driven information technologies. As artificial intelligence progresses and technology becomes more sophisticated, we expect existing concepts to embrace this change -- or change themselves. Similarly, in the domain of computer-aided processing of natural languages, shall the concept of natural language processing give way to natural language understanding? Or is the relation between the two concepts more subtle and complicated than merely the linear progression of a technology? In this post, we'll scrutinize over the concepts of NLP and NLU and their niches in the AI-related technology.

ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) is collaborating with Edge Case Research to engineer the next generation of autonomous vehicles (AV) with unmatched state-of-the-art hazard detection capabilities. Through a new OEM agreement, Edge Case Research integrates its powerful AV artificial intelligence (AI) perception stress testing and risk analysis system, Hologram, within ANSYS' comprehensive AV simulation solution -- delivering a solution to maximize the safety of AVs. Today's AVs rely on AI perception algorithms that are trained to make safety-critical driving decisions. Though highly advanced, an AV may fail to detect hazardous driving scenarios known as "edge cases" -- because its algorithmic training has not prepared it for the many unusual road situations it will encounter in the real world. To ensure the highest safety of an AV -- and make fully autonomous vehicles a reality, developers need tools to automatically identify these challenging edge cases in a way that is far more scalable than manual data labeling.

Hypersonic missiles, stealthy cruise missiles, and weaponized artificial intelligence have so reduced the amount of time that decision makers in the United States would theoretically have to respond to a nuclear attack that, two military experts say, it's time for a new US nuclear command, control, and communications system. Give artificial intelligence control over the launch button. In an article in War on the Rocks titled, ominously, "America Needs a'Dead Hand,'" US deterrence experts Adam Lowther and Curtis McGiffin propose a nuclear command, control, and communications setup with some eerie similarities to the Soviet system referenced in the title to their piece. The Dead Hand was a semiautomated system developed to launch the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal under certain conditions, including, particularly, the loss of national leaders who could do so on their own. Given the increasing time pressure Lowther and McGiffin say US nuclear decision makers are under, "[I]t may be necessary to develop a system based on artificial intelligence, with predetermined response decisions, that detects, decides, and directs strategic forces with such speed that the attack-time compression challenge does not place the United States in an impossible position."

Artificial intelligence and HPC system have the potential to transform the automotive industries by researching and redesigning the process. FREMONT, CA: Artificial intelligence (AI) holds the key to a new future of value for the automotive industry. According to a report, the amount of Artificial Intelligence in automotive manufacturing and cloud services will exceed $10.73 billion by 2024. The advanced capabilities of AI, coupled with increasing consumer expectations, have pushed the automotive industry into a period of digital transformation. These manufacturing techniques increase the use of computer vision for defect detection.

The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, stood up just last year, has plans to hire an ethicist to help guide the Defense Department's development and application of artificial intelligence technologies. "One of the positions we are going to fill will be somebody who is not just looking at technical standards, but who is an ethicist," said Air Force Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, the JAIC's director. "We are going to bring in someone who will have a deep background in ethics, and then the lawyers within the department will be looking at how we actually bake this into the Department of Defense." Speaking Aug. 30 at the Pentagon, Shanahan provided an update on the JAIC, where he's been since January. He'd previously led Project Maven, an artificial intelligence machine-learning pathfinder project under the undersecretary of defense for intelligence.

I recently gave an informal talk to a class of botany students at Gavilan College. The original topic was nature photography, but I also talked about the data science techniques that I used to create my recently completed photo book, Portraits of Birds: Shoreline Park. The concept for the book was to try to personally take photos of all of the bird species in a particular area, in this case Shoreline at Mountain View Park in Mountain View, California, which I later expanded to include the Palo Alto Baylands. To enumerate the species that have been seen in this area, I turned to two citizen science sites, iNaturalist and eBird, both of which have application programmatic interfaces (APIs). Note that while eBird is specific to birds, iNaturalist contains data on plants and other animals as well.

Using Actus Digital's intelligent, data-driven platform, media companies can automatically tag, organize, and categorize video recordings to enable rapid retrieval of relevant content and clips creation for social media outlets and the web. "In today's media environment, companies are dealing with a massive amount of content and data. How fast they can analyze data, find relevant content, and turn that content into engaging clips is a major differentiator," said Raphael Renous, CTO, Actus Digital. "AI is a game changer for media monitoring, as it opens up an entire new range of workflows and automation options. With our AI media monitoring platform, tagging and clips creation is an instantaneous process based on comprehensive content analysis, and we're excited to bring that unique value prop to our customers."

LOS ANGELES – Facebook on Tuesday said facial recognition technology applied to photos at the social network will be an opt-in feature. The change that began rolling out to users around the world came as the leading social network remains under pressure to better protect privacy and user data, including biometric information. Nearly two years ago, Facebook introduced a face recognition feature that went beyond suggesting friends to tag in pictures or videos but could let user know when they were in images they had permission to see elsewhere on the service. Facebook is doing away with a "tag" suggestion setting in favor of an overall facial recognition setting that will be off by default, according to a post by artificial intelligence applied research lead Srinivas Narayanan. "Facebook's face recognition technology still does not recognize you to strangers," Narayanan said.

Facebook is "considering" hiding the numbers of likes to others in posts, similar to an experiment it's doing with company-owned Instagram in several countries. The idea is to take away the popularity contest of posting, which makes people feel bad when their post doesn't perform with big numbers. According to Psychology Today, rejection in digital form (not getting many likes) can sting just as much as in the analog world. Among younger users on Instagram, posting becomes a contest to see who can get the most likes. Facebook wouldn't add more than that it's considering the move, but social media lit up with the possibilities.