{"id":625806,"date":"2023-04-05T09:49:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/the-download-russias-crumbling-tech-industry-and-an-ai-security-disaster\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T09:49:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:49:50","slug":"the-download-russias-crumbling-tech-industry-and-an-ai-security-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/05\/the-download-russias-crumbling-tech-industry-and-an-ai-security-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Download: Russia\u2019s crumbling tech industry, and an AI security disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is today’s edition of\u00a0The Download<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.<\/em><\/p>\n

How Russia killed its tech industry<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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In the months after Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine, Russia saw a mass exodus of IT workers. According to government figures, about 100,000 IT specialists left Russia in 2022, or some 10% of the tech workforce\u2014a number that is likely an underestimate.<\/p>\n

It has now been over a year since the invasion began. The tech workers who left everything behind to flee Russia warn that the country is well on its way to becoming a village: cut off from the global tech industry, research, funding, scientific exchanges, and critical components. It\u2019s an accelerating trend that started well before the war. Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Masha Borak<\/em><\/p>\n

Three ways AI chatbots are a security disaster\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

AI language models are the shiniest, most exciting thing in tech right now. But they\u2019re poised to create a major new problem: they are ridiculously easy to misuse. No programming skills are needed, and there\u2019s no known fix.<\/p>\n

Tech companies are racing to embed these models into tons of products to help people do everything from book trips to organize their calendars to take notes in meetings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the way these products work creates a ton of new risks, from leaking people\u2019s private information to helping criminals phish, spam, and scam people. Our senior AI reporter Melissa Heikkil\u00e4 has dug into the ways they\u2019re open to abuse. Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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If you\u2019d like to read more about the security vulnerabilities lurking in AI products, Melissa has written about why we\u2019re <\/strong>hurtling toward a glitchy, spammy, scammy, AI-powered internet<\/strong><\/a> for The Algorithm, her weekly newsletter. <\/strong>Sign up<\/strong><\/a> to receive it in your inbox every Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The complex math of counterfactuals could help Spotify pick your next favorite song<\/strong><\/p>\n

The news: <\/strong>A new kind of machine-learning model built by a team of researchers at the music-streaming firm Spotify captures, for the first time, the complex math behind counterfactual analysis, a technique that can be used to identify the causes of past events and predict the effects of future ones.<\/p>\n

What are counterfactuals? <\/strong>The basic idea behind counterfactuals is to ask what would have happened in a situation had certain things been different. It\u2019s like rewinding the world, changing a few crucial details, and then hitting play to see what happens. By tweaking the right things, it\u2019s possible to separate true causation from correlation and coincidence.<\/p>\n

Why it\u2019s important: <\/strong>The model could improve the accuracy of automated decision making, especially personalized recommendations, in a range of applications beyond song suggestions, from finance to healthcare. Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Will Douglas Heaven<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The must-reads<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology.<\/em><\/p>\n

1 NASA has named the astronauts that will head back to the moon<\/strong>
It\u2019ll be the first crewed moon mission since Apollo in 1972. (BBC<\/a>)
+ The mission\u2019s crew will fly to the moon next year. <\/em>(The Atlantic<\/a> $)
+ Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Orbit has filed for bankruptcy. <\/em>(Sky News<\/a>)
+ South Korea\u2019s Hanwha is hoping to take its place as a SpaceX challenger. <\/em>(Bloomberg<\/a> $)
+ What\u2019s next in space. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

2 ICE is demanding data from schools and abortion clinics<\/strong>
It\u2019s a strategy that may well be illegal. (Wired<\/a> $)
+ Texas is trying out new tactics to restrict access to abortion pills online. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

3 AI text detectors aren\u2019t working
<\/strong>A tool designed to flag AI text penalized an innocent high school student instead. (WP<\/a> $)
+ Universities aren\u2019t convinced by the software\u2019s promises. <\/em>(FT<\/a> $)
+ How OpenAI snowballed from a plucky startup to an AI giant. <\/em>(The Information<\/a> $)
+ Why detecting AI-generated text is so difficult (and what to do about it) <\/em>(MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

4 Paris wants its flying taxis up and running by next year\u2019s Olympics<\/strong>
It\u2019s an optimistic aim, to put it mildly. (Bloomberg<\/a> $)
+ These aircraft could change how we fly. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

5 Ozone-depleting chemicals are making a comeback
<\/strong>Scientists are struggling to work out what\u2019s causing the rise in emissions. (The Verge<\/a>)
+ The chemicals have been banned since 2010. <\/em>(New Scientist<\/a> $)<\/p>\n

6<\/strong> The lure of chatbots for political pollsters<\/strong>
Humans don\u2019t answer the phone, but chatbots are always ready to talk. (The Atlantic<\/a> $)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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7 Australia has banned TikTok on government devices
<\/strong>It\u2019s the latest in a long line of countries erring on the side of caution. (TechCrunch<\/a>)
+ The beauty of TikTok\u2019s secret, surprising, and eerily accurate recommendation algorithms. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

8 Parents are reserving social media handles for their babies ????<\/strong>
But there\u2019s no guarantee they\u2019ll actually want to use them. (NYT<\/a> $)\u00a0<\/p>\n

9 AI doesn\u2019t have a sense of smell<\/strong>
But it\u2019s being used to design bespoke fragrances anyway. (FT<\/a> $)<\/p>\n

10 You can\u2019t escape voice notes ????<\/strong>
They\u2019re low effort for the sender, but can be a hassle for the receiver. (Vox<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Quote of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It is the next step on the journey that gets humanity to Mars. This crew will never forget that.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Victor Glover, one of the astronauts due to travel to the moon, describes the\u00a0 importance of NASA’s Artemis II mission, Ars Technica<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The big story<\/strong><\/p>\n

What does GPT-3 \u201cknow\u201d about me?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/a>August 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the biggest stories in tech is the rise of large language models that produce text a human might have written.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These models\u2019 power comes from troves of publicly available human-created text that has been hoovered from the internet. If you\u2019ve posted anything even remotely personal in English on the internet, chances are your data might be part of some of the world\u2019s most popular LLMs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Melissa Heikkil\u00e4, MIT Technology Review\u2019s AI reporter, wondered what data these models might have on her\u2014and how it could be misused. So she put OpenAI\u2019s GPT-3 to the test. Read about what she found<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We can still have nice things<\/strong><\/p>\n

A place for comfort, fun and distraction in these weird times. (Got any ideas? <\/em>Drop me a line<\/em><\/a> or <\/em>tweet ’em at me<\/em><\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

+ How DJ Khaled spearheaded rap\u2019s love of memes<\/a>.\u00a0
+ This woman\u2019s work: these photos<\/a> of women through the ages are quite something.
+ The science behind how and why we fall in love<\/a> is fascinating.
+ The heartwarming story behind the creation of Tetris<\/a>.
+ What do fake pop stars<\/a> tell us about the real world? Quite a lot, actually.<\/svg> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Read More<\/a>
\n Rhiannon Williams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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