AI progress depends on us using less data, not more
A minimal-data practice will enable several AI-driven industries — including cyber security, which is my own area of focus — to become more efficient, accessible, independent, and disruptive.
1. AI has a compute addiction. The growing fear is that new advancements in experimental AI research, which frequently require formidable datasets supported by an appropriate compute infrastructure, might be stemmed due to compute and memory constraints, not to mention the financial and environmental costs of higher compute needs.
MIT researchers estimated that “three years of algorithmic improvement is equivalent to a 10 times increase in computing power.”
2. Big data can mean more spurious noise.
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HOW ORACLE SELLS REPRESSION IN CHINA
https://theintercept.com/2021/02/18/oracle-china-police-surveillance/
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Jan Resseger: Trust The Teacher to Tell You How Your Child Is Doing, Not Big Data
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https://www.businessinsider.com/check-point-researchers-tiktok-user-data-exposed-second-time-2021-1
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What is the difference between Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom?
Data: Anything represented in digital form, including non-executing knowledge stored in digital form.
Information: The momentary extraction of structure from data that modifies the perspective to the interpreter by creating new data or insight. Information only exists at the time of active data interpretation. Information creates the context that reveals discontinuities between what is known and what is new, triggering the need for learning.
Knowledge: Rules, algorithms, interpreters (such as pattern recognizers) or other mechanisms, including those that exist in the human brain (regardless of our ability to describe those mechanisms) that transform data into information. Knowledge may be changed by its interaction with information.
Wisdom: Specialized knowledge that acts to filter/active the knowledge that is best used to extract the appropriate information from data. Like, knowledge, wisdom may also be changed by the experience of its use through positive or negative reinforcement.
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Russia-linked spyware found on school laptops given to children by government from r/worldnews
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/russia-spyware-school-laptops-b1790759.html
Upon unboxing and preparing them, it was discovered that a number of the laptops were infected with a self-propagating network worm,” one teacher reportedly wrote
Laptops provided to schools in order to support vulnerable children learning from home during the coronavirus pandemic have been found to contain viruses.
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Comcast data cap blasted by lawmakers as it expands into 12 more states from r/technology
Comcast data cap blasted by lawmakers as it expands into 12 more states
Data cap harms poor people and isn’t needed to manage network, Mass. reps say.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/comcast-data-cap-blasted-by-lawmakers-as-it-expands-into-12-more-states/
Comcast charges an extra $30 per month for unlimited data, or $25 for the “xFi Complete” add-on package that includes the Comcast gateway device and unlimited data. Customers who don’t upgrade to unlimited data and exceed the 1.2TB cap must pay $10 for each additional block of 50GB, up to a maximum of $100 each month. Comcast is phasing in the charges gradually, so customers in newly capped areas could start getting overage charges for their April 2021 usage.
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Zoom Shared US User Data With Beijing from r/news
https://www.ntd.com/zoom-shared-us-user-data-with-beijing_544087.html
Former Zoom executive Jin Xinjiang worked with Chinese authorities to provide data on users outside of China. Court documents say this allowed Zoom to keep market access in China.
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https://enslaved.org/
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