Collaborate Disseminate
The curious case of George Duke-Cohan, Huawei’s CFO finds herself in hot water, and the crazy world of mobile phone mental health apps.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by comput… Continue reading Smashing Security #108: Hoaxes, Huawei and chatbots – with Mikko Hyppönen
After seeing how Google’s Duplex AI was able to book a table at a restaurant by fooling a human maître d’ into thinking it was human, I wondered if it might be possible for us mere hackers to pull off the same feat. What could you or I do without Google’s legions of ace AI programmers and racks of neural network training hardware? Let’s look at the ways we can make a natural language bot of our own. As you’ll see, it’s entirely doable.
One of the first steps in engineering a solution is to break …read more
Continue reading Make A Natural Language Phone Bot Like Google’s Duplex AI
Over two years after leaving Aol (now known as Oath) back in September 2015 to build a new startup, serial entrepreneur Ryan Block, with co-founder Brian LeRoux, is finally taking the wraps off the new venture: Begin, an intelligent app designed to hel… Continue reading Begin, a new app from Ryan Block, uses natural language to generate tasks from your Slack
Joshua Browder created DoNotPay to help people fight parking tickets, and hopes to make the platform a resource for all kinds of legal issues. Continue reading The Entrepreneur Trying to Democratize Law with a Free Chatbot
Robots can’t pass the Turing Test yet, but they still deserve our empathy. Continue reading Pity the Lonely Chatbot
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news! Continue reading News in brief: Wikileaks’ Dumbo flies; off-script chatbots; Google down-votes duff apps
Open-source Securitybot works in Slack to make dealing with security notifications smoother Continue reading Dropbox’s tool shows how chatbots could be future of cybersecurity
What do you get when mindless automatons with no capacity for reason or logic converse? While you discuss that in the comments, here are two chatbots on Twitch. The highlights? A few hours ago they were doing the cutesy couple, “‘I love you more!’, ‘No, I love you more!’” thing. This was ended by, “Error, cannot connect to server.” Even robot love is not eternal.
3D printer nozzles wear out. Put a few hundred hours on a brass nozzle, and you’re not going to get the same print quality as when you started. This has led to stainless and silly-con …read more
What do you get when mindless automatons with no capacity for reason or logic converse? While you discuss that in the comments, here are two chatbots on Twitch. The highlights? A few hours ago they were doing the cutesy couple, “‘I love you more!’, ‘No, I love you more!’” thing. This was ended by, “Error, cannot connect to server.” Even robot love is not eternal.
3D printer nozzles wear out. Put a few hundred hours on a brass nozzle, and you’re not going to get the same print quality as when you started. This has led to stainless and silly-con …read more
Tricking people into believing they’re chatting with a President is easier than convincing them they’re chatting with almost-naked women. Continue reading Porn Chatbot Tricks Argentinians Into Thinking They’re Chatting With President
