A lil

 

light reading if anybody is interested :-).

AI-powered supply chain visibility platform Altana nabs $15M

"Trade wars, the rise of ecommerce, pandemic supply chain shocks, and sustainability concerns are driving fundamental changes to supply chain networks and global trade flows. Nearly 75% of companies report supply chain disruptions in some capacity due to pandemic-related transportation restrictions. And in a recent IBM survey, 40% of executives stressed the need for spare capacity to weather future crises."

Lord knows you can't invest in more robust supply chains while you're making kazillions. Always gotta let the crisis hit first and then react. (Covid) . Seriously all these multinational corporations making all this $ and nobody ever thought more robust supply chains might be a good idea? Of course they knew it was a good idea they just didn't wanna spend the money. The other 60% of executives that didn't stress the need for spare capacity (alternate methods and routes of delivery) for their supply chains are already behind. The anticipating further and future crises in supply chains thinking is spot on. I've read where a lot of people think next spring the Covid supply chain disruptions will start to dissipate. I'm saying they won't, or there will be some other unforeseen coming crisis that will keep supply chain bottlenecks a thing for the foreseeable future. Get used to it. 

Security experts predict a global AI-related cyber attack before year-end

Like that...kind of unforeseen crisis. It's not even quantum powered yet and its gonna make the Colonial Pipeline attack look like Childs play. Welcome to your new normal everybody wanted so badly.

5 real AI threats that make The Terminator look like Kindergarten Cop

"Facebook‘s AI has more influence over humankind than any other force in history. The social network has more active monthly users than Christianity.

It would be shortsighted to think decades of exposure to social networks, despite hundreds of thousands of studies warning us about the real harms, won’t have a major impact on our species.

(Already has would be my contention)

"...anti-privacy technology and the nightmare dystopia we’re headed for as a species..."

"Now, Google’s bias is our bias. Amazon‘s bias determines which products we buy. Microsoft and Apple‘s bias determine what news we read."

"Almost every facet of modern life is somehow promulgated via algorithmic bias."

"In another 20 years, information could become so stratified that “alternative facts” no longer refer to those that diverge from reality, but those that don’t reflect the collective truth our algorithms have decided on for us."

It's gonna get here before you think.

"In the next 20 years, we can expect the lack of explainability intrinsic to black box AI to lie at the center of any number of potential catastrophes involving artificial intelligence and loss of human life."

"The real killer robot threat is that of terrorists gaining access to simple algorithms, simple drones, simple guns, and advanced drone-swarm control technology."

"But autonomous weapons might be doable as a surprise attack. And people might not even know who did it. So I think that is, from my perspective, the ultimate greatest danger that I can be a part of. And we need to be cautious and figure out how to ban or regulate it."

Ban and regulate autonomous weapons...yeah...sure...

Like I said, just a lil light reading :-).

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