February 16th started like any typical Friday night. My husband and I decided to stay home, grill chicken and make a salad for dinner. At about 6:45 p.m., we heard some loud rumbling overhead. We walked onto the back patio, and two police helicopters were overhead -- shining lights all over our property, and a recording echoed, "Police. As I looked across the fence, a swarm of armed members of the Phoenix SWAT Team with a few dogs were circling our property. One of the guys said, "Yeah, there's a jammer right here." I leaned over the patio and asked, "What's going on?" A SWAT member said, "Ma'am, A South American gang is targeting homes to steal from.

This story is part of Future Tense Fiction, a monthly series of short stories from Future Tense and Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives. There wasn't a doctor in the house, so an advertising coordinator would have to do. Remi, this is your time to shine, said the boss. This is going to be the death of me, said the boss's eyes. Remi didn't say anything at all. It was her first day at Elephant, or close to it. Lately she'd had a lot of first days, and she'd been looking forward to a second one. She was unlucky in love, unlucky in life; she was a nonstick surface for luck. She and the boss and Glenda from HR had been in the middle of an onboarding session when ElephantAI shut down the building. Nobody could get in or out. This isn't my area of expertise, said Remi, who had lied on her résumé, but not about that. In college, she'd known a couple of kids who'd taken courses on generative A.I. remediation: robot therapy. Remi had steered clear of the subject. She couldn't keep a job, couldn't keep a girlfriend. Couldn't keep up with the times. She had friends but wasn't sure about her value-add. There was no one less qualified to counsel someone through a crisis. You'll do great, said the boss. The room was circular and tilted downward, like an operating theater. The screen said, Talk to me. Somebody please talk to me. Remi bowed under the weight of please. There was no reason to believe she would do great. A committed underachiever, Remi was going blind in her left eye but too slowly to warrant anybody's concern. Her brother was a corporate attorney; her parents taught dentistry; she floated. An hour ago, when the sirens blared, she'd tried the door and found it locked.

Marius cursed and jammed a mic stand between the crash bars of the TV studio door. "If SWAT's on its way, we don't have much time," he said. Michaela, who up until a couple of minutes ago had been streaming their interview live, still sat on one of the oval chairs under the hot lights. "What are they talking about?" The cube-shaped television studio had black-painted walls surrounding the bright stage area. Big monitors on the walls were showing the same "live" feed as they had five minutes ago, but now a red banner flashed at the bottom of the screens: ACTIVE SHOOTER AT COMPLETE PICTURES BUILDING. Michaela pointed at a moving figure on the screen. Apparently I like assault rifles." Adan, their cameraman, had called up a local news feed after the first shouts of panic and confusion filtered through the studio's thick doors. What it showed was entirely and completely not what the three of them were seeing. Marius was inside the windowless second-floor studio, empty-handed, yet the monitors showed what looked like a drone feed of him moving into and out of view through the building's windows on the 10th floor. He was armed, and every now and then he would pause and shoot, calmly and methodically. Marius shook his head in disgust. "Hey, Adan, could you give me a hand with this?" The cameraman was hunched over his laptop. "The same people who own the SWAT team," said Marius. "But forget what I said.

Jun 6, 2016 @ 06:00 AM AI Is The Wave, And CIOs Must Learn To Surf Share to email Oracle Tweet This As compute power increases, so will the capabilities of machine-learning models. " As compute power increases, so will the capabilities of machine-learning models. After years percolating in the backwaters of IT, AI is catching a dynamic wave of interest and investment. Self-driving cars and Go-playing computers have grabbed the public's attention. But AI's potential to dramatically improve cost/benefit equations is why "CIOs should start looking at how this is going to change the business they're in and potentially disrupt the types of applications they're using," says IDC Research Director David Schubmehl. Source: iStockphoto If robotics is the face of AI, the beating heart is what's known as machine learning--the ability to program a computer to recognize patterns and build models that let it make decisions or generate predictions. Several factors account for the recent explosion in ...

A computer video game called'Active Shooter' would allow players to choose between a member of a SWAT team disarming an active shooter, or to become the shooter themselves. The owners of video game marketplace Steam said it has removed a game where players could simulate a school shooting either as police or the shooter themselves. Valve Corporation said it has pulled Active Shooter, which was scheduled to launch on the Steam platform June 6. Valve also said after investigating the controversy surrounding the game, it learned a person identified as Ata Berdiyev was behind the game's publisher, Revived Games, and developer Acid. Active Shooter was described as a "dynamic SWAT simulator" where players can choose to work as the member of a SWAT team attempting to disarm the shooter, or the shooter themselves.

A computer video game called'Active Shooter' would allow players to choose between a member of a SWAT team disarming an active shooter, or to become the shooter themselves. Lawmakers and parents of school shooting victims are expressing anger at an upcoming video game allowing players to either stop or commit a school shooting. The game, called Active Shooter, is scheduled to launch on June 6, according to its web page on the video game marketplace Steam. It's described as a "dynamic SWAT simulator" where players can choose to work as the member of a SWAT team attempting to disarm the shooter, or the shooter themselves. A box to the left of the screen keeps track of how many police officers and civilians were killed.

CIOs take note: When even the White House wants to take a serious look at the potential repercussions of artificial intelligence, you should, too. After years percolating in the backwaters of IT, AI is catching a dynamic wave of interest and investment. Self-driving cars and Go-playing computers have grabbed the public's attention. But AI's potential to dramatically improve cost/benefit equations is why "CIOs should start looking at how this is going to change the business they're in and potentially disrupt the types of applications they're using," says IDC Research Director David Schubmehl. If robotics is the face of AI, the beating heart is what's known as machine learning--the ability to program a computer to recognize patterns and build models that let it make decisions or generate predictions.

Acing analytics is not optional anymore. Managing by the numbers, using data to learn about your customers and how they are using your products is the only way to survive whether you are a series A start up or a Fortune 100 blue chip company. Yet, the landscape of analytics is getting murkier by the day. You are wooed daily by companies touting artificially intelligent bots that can shift through petabytes of data and tell you where the problems are in your business. Every day you see news of your competitors successfully increasing their revenue by x% using some fancy machine-learning algorithm.

Last week, on September 8th, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department successfully used a remote-controlled bomb squad robot to snatch a rifle out from under an armed and violent suspect. The standoff between the suspect and an armored SWAT team lasted for more than six hours, but concluded without a single shot fired. "The robot was a game changer here," Capt. Jack Ewell told the LA Times. "We didn't have to risk a deputy's life to disarm a very violent man."