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Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Mike Loukides. Clockwork (source: Pixabay) Check out the "Ethics, Privacy, and Security" sessions at the Artificial Intelligence Conference in New York, April 15-18, 2019. We are surrounded by systems that make ethical decisions: systems approving loans, trading stocks, forwarding news articles, recommending jail sentences, and much more. They act for us or against us, but almost always without our consent or even our knowledge. In recent articles, I've suggested the ethics of artificial intelligence itself needs to be automated. But my suggestion ignores the reality that ethics has already been automated: merely claiming to ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Tim O'Reilly. Gradual steps (source: Pixabay) This post was originally published on Quartz. The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market. Both companies are gearing up for their IPOs in the next few months. Street talk has Lyft shooting for a valuation between $15 and $30 billion dollars, and Uber valued at an astonishing $120 billion dollars. Neither company is profitable; their enormous valuations are based on the premise that if a company grows big enough and ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Nikki McDonald. Wind farm (source: Pixabay) Get expert guidance on building and running cloud native infrastructure at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference in San Jose 2019. Register soon: best price ends March 22. Nearly all organizations today are doing some of their business in the cloud, but the push for increased feature performance and reliability has sparked a growing number to embrace a cloud native infrastructure. In Capgemini’s survey of more than 900 executives, adoption of cloud native apps is set to jump from 15% to 32% by 2020. The strong combination of growth in ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Patrick Hall. Cyber crime (source: Pixabay) Check out the "Ethics, Privacy, and Security" sessions at the Artificial Intelligence Conference in New York, April 15-18, 2019. Like many others, I’ve known for some time that machine learning models themselves could pose security risks. A recent flourish of posts and papers has outlined the broader topic, listed attack vectors and vulnerabilities, started to propose defensive solutions, and provided the necessary framework for this post. The objective here is to brainstorm on potential security vulnerabilities and defenses in the context of popular, traditional predictive modeling systems, such ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Effective visualization is the best way to communicate information from the increasingly large and complex datasets in the natural and social sciences. But with the increasing power of visualization software today, scientists, engineers, and business analysts often have to navigate a bewildering array of visualization choices and options. This practical book takes you through many commonly encountered visualization problems, and it provides guidelines on how to turn large datasets into clear and compelling figures. What visualization type is best for the story you want to tell? How do you make ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Despite popular forays into augmented and virtual reality in recent years, spatial computing still sits on the cusp of mainstream use. Developers, artists, and designers looking to enter this field today have few places to turn for expert guidance. In this book, Erin Pangilinan, Steve Lukas, and Vasanth Mohan examine the AR and VR development pipeline and provide hands-on practice to help you hone your skills. Through step-by-step tutorials, you’ll learn how to build practical applications and experiences grounded in theory and backed by industry use cases. In each section ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica. Tug of war (source: Oregon State University on Flickr) Check out the "Security and Privacy" sessions at the Strata Data Conference in London, April 29-May 2, 2019. Early price ends March 15. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data, data science, and AI. Find us on Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Kartik Hosanagar, professor of technology and digital business, and professor of marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  Hosanagar ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Find out how to use the Unity Game Engine to its fullest for both 3D and 2D game development—from the basics to the hottest new tricks in virtual reality. With this unique cookbook, you’ll get started in two ways: First, you’ll learn about the Unity game engine by following very brief exercises that teach specific features of the software Second, this tutorial-oriented guide provides a collection of snippets that solve common gameplay problems, like determining if a player has completed a lap in a race Using our cookbook format, we ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides. Montage (source: Pixabay) Every day, someone comes up with a new use for old data. Recently, IBM scraped a million photos from Flickr and turned them into a training data set for an AI project intending to reduce bias in facial recognition. That’s a noble goal, promoted to researchers as an opportunity to make more ethical AI. Yet, the project raises numerous ethical questions of its own. Photographers and subjects weren’t asked if their photos could be included; while the photos are all covered by a Creative Commons non-commercial license, ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Josh Bersin, Tim O'Reilly, Roger Magoulas, Mike Loukides. Future of the Firm We’re excited that O’Reilly Radar is partnering with Josh Bersin to cover topics like organizational learning, workforce expectations, adapting to digital transformation, and leveraging technology for human resources—all topics related to the future of the firm. Bersin has a long history of providing prescient advice on the human side of what organizations need to tackle the changing technological landscape they face. You may know him from the research reports he developed at Bersin by Deloitte. In addition to this report, you can ... Read More