Cybersecurity and Save The Data
Scott Gerard
Lately, I’ve been working on the cybersecurity for my company, Knowledge Reactor. One of my biggest concerns is ransomware — where the bad guys (1) prevent me from accessing my own data, and then (2) post my private data on the web for others to …
The AI Dilemma
While I absolutely love AI and ML and all the cool things they can and will do, I’ve also been concerned that we’re not adequately concerned about its safety and its dark sides. This video does a terrific job of explaining and beginning to show …
Reliable Autonomous Systems
Neil Yorke-Smith recently gave a lecture titled “Towards a Framework for Certification of Reliable Autonomous Systems” where he discussed many points from his and his co-author’s paper on arXiv. This is an extremely important topic in AI and multiagent systems, but there are still too …
How should we understand the word “Understand”
What does the word “understand” mean?. From the outside, is it possible to know whether someone — or some AI — “understands” you. What does that even mean? I assert that if you “understand” something, then you can answer questions and perform tasks based on …
Complex Adaptive Systems
John H. Miller and Scott E. Page, in their book Complex Adaptive Systems, discuss a number of topics we all presume we know, but that are seldom explicitly discussed. For example, they have really nice descriptions of modeling and emergence. They also talk about “computation …
We Must Not Loose Control of Artificial Intelligence
There have been lots of science fiction stories where a scientist creates a technology with the best of intentions, but then something unforeseen happens, and the technology gets away from him. The book Frankenstein was probably the first. The movie Trancendence is a recent example where an AI project …
Artificial Intelligence and Patents
I recently had the privilege to speak at the 21st Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property Law and Policy I was on a panel with IP professionals from Patterson+Sheridan and Navid Alipour from Analytic Ventures. I gave a brief introduction to AI and machine learning to set the stage for our …
AI and Patents
In 2019, I had the privilege to speak at the 21st Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property Law and Policy. I was on a panel with IP professionals from Patterson+Sheridan and Navid Alipour from Analytic Ventures. I gave a brief introduction to AI and machine learning …
