EP048

EP048 – Intelligent in an artificial sort of way
Music provided by: Denis Kreynin https://soundcloud.com/denis-kreynin

Greetings & Banter
Referenced the Bao short film. Here’s a bit of a breakdown on YouTube.
Also made reference to Sheridan College. What I forgot to mention is that they have an information system security degree program.

Follow up
Some follow up from episode 46 on Speculative Execution flaws in CPUs:
– Intel chip flaw: Math unit may spill crypto secrets to apps

Redshell is a tracking utility for measuring engagement and had ad network integration

Crappy IoT security. Another flaw hits Tapplock smart locks, thanks to leaky server

Topic for this week: Artificial Intelligence
Some background information on chess piece values.
How AlphaGo trains to dominate in playing Go”.
Overfitting is a problem in machine learning.
Tay Tweets AI debacle.
This whole episode was apparently a setup for Matt’s terrible pun based on this computer learning baroque music bot.
Wikipedia card counting article.
The horrible AI written story of Harry Potter.
Here’s a good overview of how Neural Networks work on YouTube.
How Machine Learning Works, As Explained By Google.
The Turk, a.k.a. Mechanical Turk
Debating against machines.
Stuff You Should Know podcast on AI and machine learning as applied to games