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Blake Dowling: Is the cloud getting in the way of your cybersecurity plans?

Blake Dowling: Is the cloud getting in the way of your cybersecurity plans?

When I first talk to an organization about their technology, many conversations begin with statements such as “I don’t need any additional cybersecurity” because our systems are in the cloud. Or “we don’t need backups because our data is in the cloud”. In most cases, these thoughts are incorrect. The “cloud” is just a server …

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Blake Dowling: Dipping our toes in the Florida Metaverse

Blake Dowling: Dipping our toes in the Florida Metaverse

I saw an Instagram post this week for the rock band motor head and their performance at Ozzfest 2022. It seemed a little strange to me, as a lead singer Lemmy Kilmister died in recent years. After reading the details, this Ozzfest Music Festival performance was a metaverse digital hologram/avatar performance; hosted at Decentraland. The …

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COSM grills Blake Lemoine who thought his chatbot was sensitive

COSM grills Blake Lemoine who thought his chatbot was sensitive

Last Thursday morning at the COSM, a panel of experts debated whether true sentient artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially exist – and even if it already does. Robert J. Marks, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at Baylor University, began by criticizing the Turing test as a measure of whether we have produced …

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