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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The Wordcraft Writers Workshop is another project about collaborating with LaMDA. These companies are involved in activities like planting spyware on web sites to collect users’ personal data. This could be a route towards AI that learns more effectively. Using LaMDA to write full stories is a dead end.” Quantum Computing.

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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

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Journalists and activists are increasingly targeted by the wealthy and resourceful who seek to keep the truth hidden, from nation-state aligned hackers hacking into journalist’s inboxes to governments deploying mobile spyware to snoop on their most vocal critics. Runa Sandvik, founder of Granitt. Image: (supplied).

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Radar Trends to Watch: August 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Princeton held a workshop on the reproducibility crisis that the use of machine learning is causing in science. AWS is offering some customers a free multi factor authentication (MFA) security key. Researchers have used reinforcement learning to build a robotic dog that learns to walk on its own in the real world (i.e.,