The The US Department of Homeland Security is reportedly worried that face coverings will stymie the police's use of facial recognition technology. According to a report from The Intercept, a bulletin drafted by the DHS discusses the effects of widespread use of face coverings in a correspondence with other federal agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 'The potential impacts that widespread use of protective masks could have on security operations that incorporate face recognition systems -- such as video cameras, image processing hardware and software, and image recognition algorithms -- to monitor public spaces during the ongoing Covid-19 public health emergency and in the months after the pandemic subsides,' reads the bulletin according to The Intercept. The bulletin, which was obtained via a trove of police documents leaked in the'BlueLeaks' hack on law enforcement agencies, mentions that the masks could be used by extremists to avoid facial recognition technology but says there is no current evidence that any such group is currently doing so. '[There is] no specific information that violent extremists or other criminals in the United States are using protective face coverings to conduct attacks,' reads the document.

When considering transformational ways to use computer vision on the edge in devices like robots, drones, cameras, and other devices, Booz Allen Hamilton VP Josh Sullivan advises caution, urging people to take security seriously on what's become a whole new attack vector. "For me, deploying an AI model in your IT environment is an entirely new attack vector. I've seen a model working correctly that can identify tanks and other military equipment be fooled into seeing a school bus because someone sent poisoned data into the model," he said. Failure to keep models secure can lead to adversarial machine learning attacks to make malicious code appear as benign or a range of other bad outcomes. Sullivan was joined in conversation at VentureBeat's Transform 2020 conference by Nvidia VP of federal initiatives Anthony Robbins, Intel IoT VP Stacey Shulman, and Joint AI Center acting director Nand Mulchandani.

IPsoft, the largest independent leader in enterprise artificial intelligence (AI), announced that Amelia, its industry-leading digital customer service agent, is now available on Genesys AppFoundry from Genesys, the global leader in cloud customer experience and contact centre solutions. Amelia, with her superior conversational AI capabilities, can handle customers' most common requests by herself, without human support, empowering organizations to offer their customers immediate and scalable 24/7 support for faster problem resolutions. The integration of Amelia is available through Genesys Cloud, the industry's leading cloud contact centre platform, with a robust feature set and open APIs, which allows for flexibility, scalability and rapid innovations. Genesys and IPsoft customers, includes Bankia one of the largest banks in Spain. Bankia deployed Amelia as a digital contact centre agent to scale customer service and improve the customer experience.

CEO at Lensa, Inc. Passionate advocate for recruiting and human resources technology that puts people first. Have you ever been recruited by a robot? The odds are high that you have. Artificial intelligence (AI) is now as much a part of job search as spaceships are of Star Wars. But how big a role does AI play in the recruiting and hiring process?

In 2015, Dan Kaufman, the director of the information innovation office at the U.S. Department's fabled DARPA lab, began talking to Google about joining the company in some capacity. Maybe he could work on Android. Or take a job at X, the Alphabet moonshot factory formerly known as Google X. And then another possibility came up: ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects), a Google research skunkworks that was "just like DARPA, but in Silicon Valley," as he describes it. His reaction: "That sounds awesome!" At the time, ATAP was even led by Regina Dugan, Kaufman's former boss at DARPA. But not long after he arrived as Dugan's deputy, she abruptly left to start a similar group at Facebook.

Yeshimabeit Milner was in high school the first time she saw kids she knew getting handcuffed and stuffed into police cars. It was February 29, 2008, and the principal of a nearby school in Miami, with a majority Haitian and African-American population, had put one of his students in a chokehold. The next day several dozen kids staged a peaceful demonstration. That night, Miami's NBC 6 News at Six kicked off with a segment called "Chaos on Campus." Cut to blurry phone footage of screaming teenagers: "The chaos you see is an all-out brawl inside the school's cafeteria." Students told reporters that police hit them with batons, threw them on the floor, and pushed them up against walls. The police claimed they were the ones getting attacked--"with water bottles, soda pops, milk, and so on"--and called for emergency backup. Around 25 students were arrested, and many were charged with multiple crimes, including resisting arrest with violence.

Darrell West is vice president of the Brookings Institution and director of Governance Studies at Brookings. John Allen is the president of the Brookings Institution and a retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general. Together, they are the authors of the book, "Turning Point: Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence," a broad look at the impact that artificial intelligence systems are likely to have on everything from the military, to health care, to vehicles and transportation, and to international great power competition. They joined Benjamin Wittes to discuss the book and the question of how we should govern AI systems. What makes for ethical uses of AI? What makes it scary?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been implemented in many major industries since the term was first coined in the 1950s. Specific applications of AI include expert systems, natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition and machine vision. In Southeast Asia where e-commerce is a big and booming business, online retailers have embraced the adoption of AI applications such as chatbots to improve the customer experience for shoppers online. In recent times, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, many industries around the world are finding ways to increase efficiency and lower operating cost, including automating their customer support and call centres – for every imaginable business operation. One of the ways AI could be of assistance in automating customer service is through the use of chatbots.

About 78 years ago, back in the year, 1942 sci-fi legend Isaac Asimov laid out the popularly known Asimov's Laws, a set of principles which the robots should follow for the future applications, these include- Unfortunately, the first rule has been broken a lot of times, causing concerns about the dangers of Automation. The gravest threat arises from the co-working Robots also called as the Cobots, who work in tandem with the human hands. This is no exaggeration, the US Department of Labor which keeps a track of robotic injuries to the workforce, lists out serious injuries in 38 pages which are caused by robotic malfunction, and that not include the manual dangers of hacking. The insecure software systems are no help, regularly attacked by a growing number of hackers who take advantage of insecure software systems to manipulate robot programming to turn on the dark side of Robotics. In his book When Robots Kill, law professor Gabriel Hallevy discusses the criminal liability that arises from the perils of AI infiltrating the commercial, industrial, military, medical, and personal spheres.

With the rise of the hard left in America, we should keep George Orwell's warning in mind and learn to spot lies that are made to sound truthful. Laura Ingraham opened Thursday's show with a monologue meant to help viewers "decode" the language used by Democrats to assuage voters who might otherwise be skeptical or fearful of a Joe Biden presidency. The "Ingraham Angle" host began by quoting George Orwell's classic 1946 essay, "Politics and the English Language," in which he wrote that "political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." "At the time, George Orwell was writing about the rise of communism and far-left thought," Ingraham said. "Today with the rise of the hard left in America, we should keep Orwell's warnings in mind and learn to spot lies that are made to sound truthful during this pivotal time," she said.