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New York law would ban civilians from weaponizing robots

Popular Science

Lawmakers in New York have proposed a new bill that would make it illegal to mount weapons to robots or drones. That is of course, unless the people operating those weaponized machines happen to work with law enforcement or the military. If passed, the Responsible Robotics Act would make New York the first state to ban weaponized robots for civilians, at a time when government spending on autonomous and semi-autonomous police technology is on the rise. The bill specifically bans the sale, transfer, modification, operation, or equipping of robots or drones with mounted weapons. Prohibited weapons include firearms, stun guns, chemical agents, lasers, and explosives.


Review for NeurIPS paper: Auditing Differentially Private Machine Learning: How Private is Private SGD?

Neural Information Processing Systems

Weaknesses: My biggest concern with this work is that I believe they oversell their result. Their variance based computation of singular vectors (and hence data poisoning attack) relies heavily on the fact that we can have a good understanding of variance, which is model dependence. It is easiest for logistic regression. I suspect that is the reason the paper looked at logistic regression. As the bound before the line 225 is not tight for many other learning task, I doubt that they would have such a large improvement.


Apple to Pay 95 Million to Settle Lawsuit Accusing Siri of Eavesdropping. What to Know

TIME - Tech

Apple has agreed to pay 95 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices. The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court would resolve a 5-year-old lawsuit revolving around allegations that Apple surreptitiously activated Siri to record conversations through iPhones and other devices equipped with the virtual assistant for more than a decade. The alleged recordings occurred even when people didn't seek to activate the virtual assistant with the trigger words, "Hey, Siri." Some of the recorded conversations were then shared with advertisers in an attempt to sell their products to consumers more likely to be interested in the goods and services, the lawsuit asserted. The allegations about a snoopy Siri contradicted Apple's long-running commitment to protect the privacy of its customers -- a crusade that CEO Tim Cook has often framed as a fight to preserve "a fundamental human right."


AI shouldn't decide who dies, Kamala Harris failed Oakland, and more from Fox News Opinion

FOX News

Fox News host Sean Hannity says the vice president has a'lot to answer for' ahead of the 2024 election on'Hannity.' HANNITY – Fox News host says the vice president has a'lot to answer for' ahead of the 2024 election. HUGH HEWITT – Why I am voting for Trump. HOMETOWN HAZARD – Kamala Harris failed Oakland and would do the same for America. GUTFELD – Despite Teamsters embracing Trump, they decided to endorse nobody.


A's pitcher records win without facing batter in statistical anomaly

FOX News

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Oakland Athletics reliever Sean Newcomb recorded his first win of the year on Friday night with zero batters faced. So, how did he do it? With the A's tied at 5 against the Minnesota Twins with two outs in the eighth inning and a man on first, Newcomb entered the game from the bullpen.


Who is Nicole Shanahan? Meet the wealthy entrepreneur RFK Jr selected as his VP running mate

FOX News

Kennedy initially launched his presidential bid as a Democrat last April, but he later announced an independent run in October. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced Tuesday that attorney and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan will be his vice presidential running mate heading into the November general election. A native of Oakland, California, the 38-year-old Shanahan is a philanthropist with a long history of donating to Democrat and left-leaning causes, including supporting President Biden in his 2020 election bid before switching to Kennedy when he launched his own run for the Democrat nomination last year. Kennedy announced Shanahan by praising her insight into "how Big Tech uses AI to manipulate the public," her athletic ability, and willingness to be a "partner" in a number of policy areas, including on securing the border. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., left, and entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan, right.


Bay area residents turn to artificial intelligence to stop crime amid burglary surge, police shortages

FOX News

'Fox & Friends' co-hosts criticize liberal San Francisco Mayor London Breed after she claimed crime statistics were taken completely out of context and that her city is being targeted. Residents and business owners in California's Bay Area are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to combat a surge of burglaries and robberies along with police staffing shortages, with one security company telling Fox News Digital its sales of AI-based surveillance have been through the roof. Deep Sentinel, a Pleasanton, California-based company providing AI-based security nationwide, told Fox News Digital that business tripled during the coronavirus pandemic and that trend has continued ever since as burglaries and robberies continue to plague San Francisco and the Bay Area in general. "I would say that the business segment has just skyrocketed in the past year," Tomasz Borys, Deep Sentinel's vice president of marketing, told Fox News Digital. "The way that works is these cameras come with a sensor, so when there's an object that goes in front of the camera, it will trigger the artificial intelligence really quickly within a millisecond and determine what the object is," Borys explained.


Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Ask Media Group - United States - Remote

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Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Ask Media Group, LLC: Build innovative solutions to predict and prescribe strategies that bring a competitive advantage to our business products. Build and productionize models (test and deploy an application model to production), fine tune models for better effectiveness, and build for scalability and stability. A Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline followed by 3 years of experience in a machine learning- or data science engineering-occupation. To apply, please mail cover letter and resume, referencing Req.


Deep Learning Engineer at Hayden AI - Oakland, CA

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Welcome to Hayden AI, where the future is ours to make. From bus lane and bus stop enforcement to digital twin modeling and more, our clients use our mobile perception system to speed up transit, make streets safer, and create a more sustainable future. Led by experts in AI, computer vision, data science, transportation, and government technology, Hayden AI is pioneering real world problem solving powered by AI and machine learning. Our mobile perception platform is currently utilized by New York City's MTA for automated bus lane enforcement. We recently raised $20 million in Series A funding and have been featured in Bloomberg CityLab, Forbes, Smart Cities Dive, and Politico.


ChatGBT Shows Scary Implications Of AI: Sports Owners And The Robot

#artificialintelligence

Everyone is talking about the latest AI project, Chat GBT, and the responses have ranged from excitement to terror. In fact, Chat GBT has become such a cultural phenomenon that the site is operating at overcapacity, and you can't even get on right now. Kind of like when you call the airline and they ask for your number and say they will text you when you are next in line. In the meantime, AI is already impacting various industries but none more visible or game changing than the sports business. The reason is that predicting future outcomes are essential to everything in sports.