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Episode 50 – AI Breakdowns and Red Mercury…mmmmmm.

Episode 50 – AI Breakdowns and Red Mercury…mmmmmm.

Published 5 years ago in Amazon , Bitcoin , China , Cybercrime , Hack , Microsoft , Oracle , Virtual Reality

Artificial Intelligence is obviously getting better, smarter, faster. But there are some … uh… glitches.

Amazon Rekognition “accidentally” matched 28 lawmakers to mugshots…Heh! AND……Watson also given a black eye by the haters. Watson AI fed bad data….C’mon people!!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/07/amazons-rekognition-messes-up-matches-28-lawmakers-to-mugshots/

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/26/17619382/ibms-watson-cancer-ai-healthcare-science

We also discuss:

Amazon rolls out LOTR spinoff…. We can’t WAIT!

https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/28/amazon-lord-of-the-rings-show-writers/

Python’s awesome…blah, blah, blah

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language

https://www.wired.com/story/china-blocks-qualcomms-attempt-to-buy-a-dutch-chipmaker

More Kickass ways that Crypto fails

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/hackers-find-creative-way-to-steal-7-7-million-without-being-detected/

This just in…The Russians may not be our friends

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/16/extradition-has-been-tough-for-accused-russian-hackers.html

Facebook plunge

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/facebook-growth-prospects-stalled-by-scandal-regulation?utm_campaign=news&utm_medium=bd&utm_source=applenews

Prime Day

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/amazon-internal-documents-what-caused-prime-day-crash-company-scramble.html

Bombs in the cloud

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/26/pentagon-takes-step-closer-to-awarding-10-billion-cloud-contract.html

IBM launches BlockChain trial for financials

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/30/ibm-trials-blockchain-platform-aimed-at-banks.html

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