This document discusses how people are developing emotional relationships and attachments to relational artifacts and machines. It explores how this affects concepts of life, love, and what it means to be human. Children in particular describe feeling love and care for objects like Furbies in a way similar to how they feel about living things. The document raises questions about how loving machines may change what love means and how people view themselves and their human identity.
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do (Read Serials)NASIG
Per the ethics of librarianship as codified by the American Library Association, knowledge seekers can expect that librarians will "protect each library user's right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted." Can librarians honestly promise this with respect to electronic serials? Do library users know or care whether librarians do? Do serials publishers and vendors acknowledge ethical duties toward readers and their privacy? Dorothea Salo will outline legal, technical, logistical, and licensing facets impinging upon, sometimes threatening, the serial reader's privacy.
Speaker: Dorothea Salo, Faculty Associate, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do (Read Serials)NASIG
Per the ethics of librarianship as codified by the American Library Association, knowledge seekers can expect that librarians will "protect each library user's right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted." Can librarians honestly promise this with respect to electronic serials? Do library users know or care whether librarians do? Do serials publishers and vendors acknowledge ethical duties toward readers and their privacy? Dorothea Salo will outline legal, technical, logistical, and licensing facets impinging upon, sometimes threatening, the serial reader's privacy.
Speaker: Dorothea Salo, Faculty Associate, University of Wisconsin - Madison
http://www.bizsum.com - Ideas are what keep businesses alive. Without new ideas, any business stands a good chance of slowly declining and eventually dying. The best companies never stop evolving and generating new ideas, and putting these ideas into action.
“Follow the Other Hand” by Andy Cohen gives a new, fun, and practical strategy to energizing your business by learning to think out of the box and come up with brilliant ideas. Through the metaphor of magic and a story of how a real company used magic to transform itself into a vibrant, profitable business, Cohen offers magical secrets to entrepreneurs and business people on how to turn their businesses into successful enterprises.
http://www.bizsum.com - Ideas are what keep businesses alive. Without new ideas, any business stands a good chance of slowly declining and eventually dying. The best companies never stop evolving and generating new ideas, and putting these ideas into action.
“Follow the Other Hand” by Andy Cohen gives a new, fun, and practical strategy to energizing your business by learning to think out of the box and come up with brilliant ideas. Through the metaphor of magic and a story of how a real company used magic to transform itself into a vibrant, profitable business, Cohen offers magical secrets to entrepreneurs and business people on how to turn their businesses into successful enterprises.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
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As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
2. What kinds of people are we becoming as we develop more and more intimate relationships with machines?
3. "What kind of relationship is it appropriate, desirable, imaginable to have with a machine?" and "What is a relationship?"
4. When a robotic creature makes eye contact, follows your gaze, and gestures towards you, you are provoked to respond to that creature as a sentient and even caring other.
5. the pressing issue in A.I. is not the potential "reality" of a non-biological son, but rather that faced by his adoptive mother -- a biological woman whose response to a machine that asks for her nurturance is the desire to nurture it; whose response to a non-biological creature who reaches out to her is to feel attachment, horror, love, and confusion.
6. Psychoanalytic thought offers materials that can deepen our understanding of what we feel when we confront a robot child who asks us for love. It can help us explore what moral stance we might take if we choose to pursue such relationships.
7. There is every indication that the future of computational technology will include relational artifacts that have feelings, life cycles, moods, that reminisce, and have a sense of humor -- that say they love us, and expect us to love them back.
8. What will it mean to a person when their primary daily companion is a robotic dog? Or their health care "attendant" is built in the form of a robot cat? Or their software program attends to their emotional states and, in turn, has affective states of its own?
9. People are learning to interact with computers through conversation and gesture; people are learning that to relate successfully to a computer you have to assess its emotional "state."
10. children describe these new toys as "sort of alive" because of the quality of their emotional attachments to the objects and because of the idea that the Furby might be emotionally attached to them.
11. Jen (9): I really like to take care of it. So, I guess it is alive, but it doesn't need to really eat, so it is as alive as you can be if you don't eat. A Furby is like an owl. But it is more alive than an owl because it knows more and you can talk to it. But it needs batteries so it is not an animal. It's not like an animal kind of alive.
12. Today's children are learning to distinguish between an "animal kind of alive" and a "Furby kind of alive." The category of "sort of alive" becomes used with increasing frequency.
13. So, for example, eight-year-old Laurie thinks that Furbies are alive, but die when their batteries are removed. People are alive because they have hearts, bodies, lungs, "and a big battery inside. If somebody kills you -- maybe it's sort of like taking the batteries out of the Furby."
14. today's children are learning to have expectations of emotional attachments to computers, not in the way we have expectations of emotional attachment to our cars and stereos, but in the way we have expectations about our emotional attachments to people.
15. In the process, the very meaning of the word "emotional" may change. Children talk about an "animal kind of alive and a Furby kind of alive." Will they also talk about a "people kind of love" and a "computer kind of love?"
16. When we are asked to care for an object, when the cared-for object thrives and offers us its attention and concern, we experience that object as intelligent, but more important, we feel a connection to it.
17. So the question here is not to enter a debate about whether objects "really" have emotions, but to reflect on what relational artifacts evoke in the user.
18. How will interacting with relational artifacts affect people's way of thinking about themselves, their sense of human identity, of what makes people special?
19. a shared sense of mortality has been the basis for feeling a commonality with other human beings, a sense of going through the same life cycle, a sense of the preciousness of time and life, of its fragility. Loss (of parents, of friends, of family) is part of the way we understand how human beings grow and develop and bring the qualities of other people within themselves.
20. The possibilities of engaging emotionally with creatures that will not die, whose loss we will never need to face, presents dramatic questions that are based on current technology -- not issues of whether the technology depicted in AI could really be developed.
21. "What kinds of relationships is it appropriate to have with machines? What will loving itself come to mean?
22. putting artificial creatures in the role of companions to our children and parents raises the question of their moral status.
23. We make our technologies, and our technologies make and shape us. We are not going to be the same people we are today, on the day we are faced with machines with which we feel in a relationship of mutual affection.
24. By the mid-1980s, anxiety about what AI challenged about human specialness had gone beyond whether machines would be "smart" and had moved to emotional and religious terrain.
25. The question of human specificity and the related question of the moral equivalence of people and machines have moved from the periphery to the center of discussions about artificial intelligence. One element of "populist" resistance to the idea of moral equivalence finds expression in a number of narratives. Among these is the idea that humans are special because of their imperfections.
26. Statements A ten-year-old who has just played with Breazeal's Kismet says, "I would love to have a robot at home. It would be such a good friend. But it couldn't be a best friend. It might know everything but I don't. So it wouldn't be a best friend." There is resistance from the experience of the life cycle. An adult confronting an "affective" computer program designed to function as a psychotherapist says, "Why would I want to talk about sibling rivalry to something that was never born and never had a mother?"
27. Statements Two grownups face a child in a wall of solidarity, explaining: "We're neither software nor hardware. We're your parents." The issue is the irreducibility of human beings and human meaning. We are back to the family, to the life cycle, to human fragility and experience. We are back to the elements of psychoanalytic culture.
28. What of Freud? It is fashionable to argue that we have moved from a psychoanalytic to a computer culture, that there is no need to talk about Freudian slips now that we can talk about information processing errors. In my view, however, the very opposite is true.
29. How do we verbalize it? We must cultivate the richest possible language and methodologies for talking about our increasingly emotional relationships with artifacts. We need far closer examination of how artifacts enter the development of self and mediate between self and other.
30. Psychoanalysis provides a rich language for distinguishing between need (something that artifacts may have) and desire (which resides in the conjunction of language and flesh). It provides a rich language for exploring the possibility of the irreducibility of human meanings.
31. Never have we so needed to be able to hold many different and contradictory thoughts and feelings at the same time.