Security experts are on the alert for the next evolution of social engineering in business settings: deepfake employment interviews. The latest trend offers a glimpse into the future arsenal of criminals who use convincing, faked personae against business users to steal data and commit fraud. The concern comes following a new advisory this week from the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which warned of increased activity from fraudsters trying to game the online interview process for remote-work positions. The advisory said that criminals are using a combination of deepfake videos and stolen personal data to misrepresent themselves and gain employment in a range of work-from-home positions that include information technology, computer programming, database maintenance, and software-related job functions. Federal law-enforcement officials said in the advisory that they've received a rash of complaints from businesses.

Joseph Weizenbaum (8 January 1923 – 5 March 2008) was a German American computer scientist and a professor at MIT. The Weizenbaum Award is named after him. He is considered one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence. Born in Berlin, Germany to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in January 1936, emigrating with his family to the United States. He started studying mathematics in 1941 at Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michigan.

For PC Magazine's charter issue(Opens in a new window) in early 1982, the newly minted editor-in-chief and publisher David Bunnell flew to Seattle to interview a fresh-faced, 26-year-old Bill Gates, the president and co-founder of a little software company called Microsoft. Bunnell's goal with this exclusive interview was to understand the part Microsoft and its software played in the development of the groundbreaking IBM PC that was born less than a year earlier. After all, that IBM PC was the namesake of Bunnell's new publication. In the interview, the two discuss how much fun it was for Bill and his team to contribute to the IBM project, how gratifying it was to have been part of it, and how the IBM and Microsoft teams worked together to actually get it done. They even speak of shooting jokes back and forth via an early form of email used for communication between the two teams. Besides recalling many of the gritty details of how the software and hardware were developed together (it was a two-hour interview!),

GT caught up with state technology leaders at the recent National Association of State Chief Information Officers Midyear conference. Here's what they had to say about artificial intelligence, chatbots, blockchain and other headline-grabbing technologies. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Amanda Crawford, Texas: We use AI today. We certainly use robotic process automation in a variety of applications and projects across the state. One of the exciting areas for us is using AI for security.

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As computers get more powerful, we are increasingly using them to make predictions. The software that makes these predictions is often called artificial intelligence. It's interesting that we call it "intelligence," because other tasks we assign to computers--computing huge numbers, running complex simulations--are also things that we label as "intelligence" when humans do them. For instance, my kids are graded on their intelligence at school based on their ability to do complex mathematical calculations. When we let computers project into the future and make their own decisions about what step to take next--what chess move to make, what driving route to suggest--we seem to want to call it artificial intelligence.

The encounter with the Specifying Integrating Generalizing Mass Array took place not in Sigma's supercooled chamber, but through the laptop. My interview with Sigma was full of irony. I hoped I was not being rude. Anything else I can help you with?" The programming of AI's may have made them smart, I thought, but not polite. "It is a word used specifically to distinguish living beings from inanimate things.

It is therefore critical that we question vague conceptions of the field as value-neutral or universally beneficial, and investigate what specific values the field is advancing. In this paper, we present a rigorous examination of the values of the field by quantitatively and qualitatively analyzing 100 highly cited ML papers published at premier ML conferences, ICML and NeurIPS. We annotate key features of papers which reveal their values: how they justify their choice of project, which aspects they uplift, their consideration of potential negative consequences, and their institutional affiliations and funding sources. We find that societal needs are typically very loosely connected to the choice of project, if mentioned at all, and that consideration of negative consequences is extremely rare. We identify 67 values that are uplifted in machine learning research, and, of these, we find that papers most frequently justify and assess themselves based on performance, generalization, efficiency, researcher understanding, novelty, and building on previous work. We present extensive textual evidence and analysis of how these values are operationalized. Notably, we find that each of these top values is currently being defined and applied with assumptions and implications generally supporting the centralization of power. Finally, we find increasingly close ties between these highly cited papers and tech companies and elite universities.

A lot of people are worried about the prospect of competing with AI for their jobs, but this probably isn't what they were expecting. The FBI has warned of an uptick in cases where "deepfakes" and stolen personal information are being used to apply for jobs in the U.S. -- including faking video interviews. The shift to remote work is great news for lots of people, but like any other change in methods and expectations it is also a fresh playground for scammers. Security standards are being updated, recruiters are adapting, and of course the labor market is wild enough that hiring companies and applicants both are trying to move faster than ever. In the midst of these ongoing changes, today's FBI public service announcement warns that deepfakes are once again being employed for nefarious purposes -- in this case imitating people whose identities have been stolen to apply for jobs: Complaints report the use of voice spoofing, or potentially voice deepfakes, during online interviews of the potential applicants.

British-born Andrew Ng has had a rich career in the technology industry as Co-Founder and Head of Google Brain, former Chief Scientist at Baidu and Co-Founder of Coursera. At Baidu, Ng built the company's artificial intelligence (AI) sector into a team of several people. In an interview with Lex Fridman, Ng shared where his passion for the industry started: " Growing up in Hong Kong and Singapore, I started learning to code when I was five or six years old. At that time I was learning the BASIC programming language and they would take these folks and they'll tell you type this program into your computer." "So I typed out programs on my computer and as the result of all the typing, I would get to play these very simple, shoot them up games that I had implemented on my little computer. So I thought it was fascinating as a young kid that I could write this code. I was really just copying code from a book into my computer to then play these cool little video games. Another moment for me was when I was a teenager and my father was a doctor was reading about expert systems and about neural networks. So he got me to read some of these books and I thought it was really cool that you could write a computer that started to exhibit intelligence." he continued.