John Phillips

trustworthy digital identities are essential, but not always necessary

[John Phillips @11dot2John]

@RalfLippold @460degrees Hi @RalfLippold , I've uploaded the original again after realising that a shift in back office productivity platforms caused us to drop the YouTube account. Doh! Here's the new link: https://t.co/EOnIjXzKFA

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Looking forward to my first in-person attendance of @kuppingercole and their @eic_conference in Berlin in June 4-7. Presenting on an anti-scam approach that I think all organisations world-wide should adopt.

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Does using the phrase "the metaverse" indicate the same lack of understanding as "the blockchain" ?

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@dgwbirch Yup, interesting (for those of us interested in this stuff), and important for all of us who travel.

Do I see a staple, and actual paper? Is that making a comeback, like vinyl?

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Death administration is a mess. People, and the organisations they rely upon for services, are bad at anticipating, preparing for, and easing, the repercussions of the most inevitable of life events: death.
Towards Better Ends https://t.co/KrqLX7M0wB via @LinkedIn

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One of the observations that we thought interesting as we read through the [Australian] National Strategy for Identity Resilience, was that the portfolios held by the ministers who are part of the "Data and Digital Ministers Meeting" are very diverse, and…https://t.co/qQPogEn4jj

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Eric Schmidt the MIT Technology Review paints an unsurprisingly positive view on how #AI will impact #scientificresearch. It would be good if his optimism is well placed, but I can't agree with the assertion that "AI can rewrite th…https://t.co/3yDRri3fxi https://t.co/kscK3JaMJj

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NASA made a Dune stillsuit? Just in time:
"...turning nearly all astronaut sweat and wee into drinking water, a new system on the International Space Station can capture and filter 98% of the wastewater produced by its inhabitants. "

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What does 13 years of Australian public university financial performance look like in 16 seconds? This...

For each year...
X-Axis is total student numbers (domestic + international)
Y-Axis is Total Revenue
Size of Bubble is number of international studen…https://t.co/bDJ6hZJ8aR

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Yesterday I managed to listen to the next episode of Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) #futuretense before its scheduled broadcast on 12:30pm 2 July AEST. Struck though I am by the irony of listening to the future, I am mo…https://t.co/4ObaAzhdZe https://t.co/8jVGyjIE24

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@Steve_Lockstep @ABCTV I guess we pay Steve, in a number of ways. I was similarly unimpressed by his efforts on that night, treating seasonal adjustment as if it were pseudo science. I've been unimpressed before. Bending graphs to look like one another and then declaring that they're predictive is nuts

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The revelation that hackers can gain control of surveillance cameras and cause significant harm will be no revelation to many (Bruce Schneier and others have the right to say "I told you so"), it is however a clear and present dang…https://t.co/6XcTEK5OpN https://t.co/9iEQrpymzs

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Sometimes when we speak at a conference we drop in, present, and run out we've got "lots on", but whenever we can we should slow down and invest the time in the other people presenting and listen, learn and connect with the other attendees. There is alway…https://t.co/6jN4mocO2y

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Scott Galloway in full flight is a entertaining, educating, and merciless: "When techno-narcissism meets technology that is genuinely disruptive (vs. crypto or a headset), the hype cycle makes the jump to lightspeed."

This and man…https://t.co/EzOSGwG8aL https://t.co/lozVnIpYQp

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We have another wave of #AI challenges fast approaching us: a flood of #AI generated innovations and patent applications.

I wouldn't be too worried about the former (innovations), so long as they are "good" innovations (opinions m…https://t.co/PnQdrF5xQW https://t.co/TVpgOJFe13

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Does anyone actually need a central bank digital currency (#CBDC)? Here's The Economist exploring the question.

Reading the article I am struck by the observation made by Yuval Noah Harari (and others) that, crudely summarising, i…https://t.co/iadTdgOErU https://t.co/ZG9UsDxMjr

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"[...]brings us ever closer to understanding how we rapidly field robust and trustworthy AI in complex and contested environments." #Trustworthy #AI in fields of war? Now there's a concept for our times.

The article from Inn…https://t.co/bVw37IfXNt https://t.co/eZKC5eFYjS

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According to MIT Technology Review, Meta trained its new speech recognition and generation #AI on audio and text from the New Testament (from the internet). Now that's an interesting choice of source data.

I'm sure there were rea…https://t.co/0bzYFmqEfQ https://t.co/9kD9MfwV2r

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@harari_yuval @sanchezcastejon Agreed, of course, but isn't it already illegal to create and use false identities? Do we need another law for #AI, or should we learn how to police the ones we have already?

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Understanding the human factor in #cybersecurity is essential to achieving more trustworthy digital systems. This New Scientist article argues that we need to understand the "why" of hackers.

This is a perspective that is essentia…https://t.co/6Xc6nbtdPv https://t.co/0m5lTxWd46