Daily Archives: March 7, 2022
AI Frameworks Development White Paper
AI helps the current economy and society enter the era of the intelligent economy. The world is entering a reshaping period driven by a new generation of information technology. Artificial Intelligence (AI), as an important enabling technology, has a “lead-goose effect” with strong spillovers and driving forces for activating the real economy, and has a strong impact on building national scientific and technological influence. Artificial intelligence has become a new technology hotspot in countries around the world, and the construction of AI infrastructure has also become an important starting point and focus. The next ten years will be a golden period for the global development of the digital economy and the entry of an intelligent economy and society. Focusing on the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure will provide strong traction for the development of China’s AI industry and the vigorous development of the digital economy.
The AI framework is the operating system of the smart economy era. As a basic tool in the development of artificial intelligence, the AI framework plays the role of the operating system in the AI technology ecosystem, and is an important carrier of AI academic innovation and industrial commercialization, helping artificial intelligence move from theory to practice and quickly into scenario-based applications. The era is also one of the necessary infrastructures for the development of artificial intelligence. With their increasing importance, AI frameworks have become one of the focuses of AIe industry innovation, attracting the attention of academia and industry.
In this context, the white paper is committed to clarifying the concept, evolution, technical system and functional significance of the AI framework. By sorting out and summarizing the current development status of the AI framework, it studies and judges the development trend of AI framework technologies, and proposes prospects and recommendations for the path forward for the development of AI frameworks. Since AI frameworks are still in the stage of rapid development, our understanding of the AI framework needs to be continuously deepened. We welcome criticism and correction of the deficiencies in the white paper. Read More
The secret police: Cops built a shadowy surveillance machine in Minnesota after George Floyd’s murder
Law enforcement agencies in Minnesota have been carrying out a secretive, long-running surveillance program targeting civil rights activists and journalists in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. Run under a consortium known as Operation Safety Net, the program was set up a year ago, ostensibly to maintain public order as Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin went on trial for Floyd’s murder. But an investigation by MIT Technology Review reveals that the initiative expanded far beyond its publicly announced scope to include expansive use of tools to scour social media, track cell phones, and amass detailed images of people’s faces.
Documents obtained via public records requests show that the operation persisted long after Chauvin’s trial concluded. What’s more, they show that police used the extensive investigative powers they’d been afforded under the operation to monitor individuals who weren’t suspected of any crime.
MIT Technology Review’s investigation includes thousands of documents and more than two dozen interviews with Minnesota state employees, policing experts, and activists. Taken together, they paint a picture of a state operation intent on identifying participants through secretive surveillance operations. Though it was undertaken by nonmilitary governmental agencies using public funds, large swaths of its inner workings have gone undisclosed. We found evidence of a complex engine of surveillance tailor-made for keeping close tabs on protesters and sharing that information among local and federal agencies, regardless of whether the subjects were suspected of any wrongdoing. Read More
How China built a one-of-a-kind cyber-espionage behemoth to last
The “most advanced piece of malware” that China-linked hackers have ever been known to use was revealed today. Dubbed Daxin, the stealthy back door was used in espionage operations against governments around the world for a decade before it was caught.
But the newly discovered malware is no one-off. It’s yet another sign that a decade-long quest to become a cyber superpower is paying off for China. While Beijing’s hackers were once known for simple smash-and-grab operations, the country is now among the best in the world thanks to a strategy of tightened control, big spending, and an infrastructure for feeding hacking tools to the government that is unlike anything else in the world. Read More
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