position:auditor

  • Stop Saying AI Can’t Replace Humans - Shelly Palmer
    https://www.shellypalmer.com/2017/05/stop-saying-ai-cant-replace-humans

    We are not close enough to general-knowledge artificial intelligence to consider a world where such a system could completely replace a cognitive nonrepetitive (white-collar) worker.
    ...
    The most probable future is far scarier.

    Man/Machine Partnerships

    As I recently wrote in Partner, or Die!, the best way to prepare yourself for the accelerating onslaught of AI and machine learning systems is to learn to partner with them. We are tool users; these systems are tools. Just as the steam engine amplified the power of our muscles, computers amplify the power of our brains. We can partner with machines to create competitive advantage for ourselves. But the devil is in the details.

    Partial Replacement, Complete Threat

    Everyone’s new, short-term goal is to form strong, competitive, awesome man/machine partnerships.

    Et maintenant la définition du public de ces réflexions :

    But people are expensive! So the results of your man/machine partnership will have to be more productive than a partnership formed by cheaper laborers. If you’re a 50-plus-year-old auditor making over $500k annually, then a 20-something-year-old, newly minted CPA and his or her trusty AI companion are going to do your job for less than 25 percent of what you’re being paid. Guess how long management is going to let that continue?

    Comme par hasard SP mentionne le sort de la majorité des gens, de nous qui ne sommes pas dirigeants d’entreprises internationales et managers. Nous sommes de plus en plus bon marchés.

    You’ve Got It Wrong – This Is Where Experience and Wisdom Come In

    Yes. This is exactly where experience and wisdom become exceptionally important. But remember, to change your world, AI does not need to replace humans – it just needs to replace you.

    Après une dernière escalation de la menace décrite SP propose une solution pour le manager de plus en plus inquiet :

    Simple Strategy, Complex Execution

    The lesson here is very clear. You must become the “Amazon” of your chosen field. How? First, invent the future. You must try to see the world as it will become. Saying that “it’s all about data” is not the same as understanding the sources and uses of data that will shape your future.

    Essayez de resoudre ce quiz de mémoire seulement - voici une preuve pour la véracité de la thése de l’auteur.

    Bonus Sci-Fi Quiz: Do you know the books, movies, and Bonus Sci-Fi Quiz:

    Do you know the books, movies, and TV series these fictional sentient systems are associated with?
    Robot B-9 “Robby,” the copies of Dr. Roger Korby or James T. Kirk (Star Trek, obviously, but can you name the series and the episode?), C3-P0 (Star Wars, of course, but how does it greet every new life form it meets?), Mother, WOPR, Skynet, Optimus Prime, Lieutenant Commander Data, The Matrix, V.I.K.I., Sonny, and my new favorite mechanical device, Dolores Abernathy.

    TV series these fictional sentient systems are associated with?
    Robot B-9 “Robby,” the copies of Dr. Roger Korby or James T. Kirk (Star Trek, obviously, but can you name the series and the episode?), C3-P0 (Star Wars, of course, but how does it greet every new life form it meets?), Mother, WOPR, Skynet, Optimus Prime, Lieutenant Commander Data, The Matrix, V.I.K.I., Sonny, and my new favorite mechanical device, Dolores Abernathy.

    Alors en fin de compte qu’est-ce qui nous reste à faire face à la menace par le plateformes du techno-monopolisme multinationales ? Le réponse se résume en deux mots :

    Soyons solidaires.

    D’accord, c’est un peu trop vague comme stratégie. Alors j’ai relu l’article de SP. J’y ai découvert des idées qu’on peut développer en outils pour la cause des gens simples.

    P.S. J’aime bien la traduction automatique dans le contexte de #seenthis. C’est un bel exemple de solidarité techniquement assistée .

    #travail #concurrence #solidarité #spip-story

    • The new report focused on the Army’s General Fund, the bigger of its two main accounts, with assets of $282.6 billion in 2015. The Army lost or didn’t keep required data, and much of the data it had was inaccurate, the IG said.
      […]
      The IG report also blamed [the Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS), which handles a wide range of Defense Department accounting services], saying it too made unjustified changes to numbers. For example, two DFAS computer systems showed different values of supplies for missiles and ammunition, the report noted – but rather than solving the disparity, DFAS personnel inserted a false “correction” to make the numbers match.

      DFAS also could not make accurate year-end Army financial statements because more than 16,000 financial data files had vanished from its computer system. Faulty computer programming and employees’ inability to detect the flaw were at fault, the IG said.

  • Secure messaging scorecard
    A rather elaborate overview of all those messaging apps out there, presented in a scorecard so you can quickly check which tools actually keep your messages safe (+), and in what way.

    https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard

    Most of the tools that are easy for the general public to use don’t rely on security best practices—including end-to-end encryption and open source code. Messaging tools that are really secure often aren’t easy to use; everyday users may have trouble installing the technology, verifying its authenticity, setting up an account, or may accidentally use it in ways that expose their communications.

    [...]

    The Secure Messaging Scorecard examines dozens of messaging technologies and rates each of them on a range of security best practices. Our campaign is focused on communication technologies — including chat clients, text messaging apps, email applications, and video calling technologies. These are the tools everyday users need to communicate with friends, family members, and colleagues, and we need secure solutions for them.

    (+) Updated: Please also check the comments below and do not take that scorecard simply at face value, as the security community has some relevant criticism on it.

    Old version : https://www.eff.org/node/82654

    #privacy

  • Au sujet du travail délocalisé :

    If you live in India, you can now get a job staring at a monitor that displays images of American doctors entering hospital rooms thousands of miles away. Your task is to sound an alarm if the doctor fails to wash his hands.

    This may sound disturbingly similar to being an auditor for the telephone handset sanitizers guild, but in practice it turns out to be very effective. It also turns out that this Big Brotherish technology has gotten a big boost from the passage of Obamacare.

    http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/05/jobs-would-have-been-unthinkable-twenty-years-ago-part-652