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The Complexities of AI Grading Systems: A Discussion on Bias and Critical Thinking

A recent study has highlighted the challenges faced by artificial intelligence (AI) grading systems, which are increasingly being used to evaluate student performance. The study found that these systems often struggle to identify and reward critical thinking skills, instead prioritizing grammatical correctness and adherence to rules. This raises important questions about the nature of education and the role of technology in assessing student learning.

One of the key issues with AI grading systems is their tendency to be biased against certain types of students. In particular, black students have been found to perform poorly under these systems, despite demonstrating excellent critical thinking skills. This bias is often attributed to cultural differences, with some researchers suggesting that the algorithms used by these systems are less effective at identifying and rewarding culturally diverse forms of communication. On the other hand, Chinese students who may not excel in grammar or vocabulary have been found to perform well under these systems, possibly due to their ability to generate "word salads" that conform to the rules.

This raises important questions about the nature of intelligence and the types of skills that are valued by educators. Are we teaching our children to think critically, or simply to follow rules and use proper grammar? The answer is not clear-cut, but it is evident that traditional methods of grading student work are no longer sufficient in the digital age.

The problem with AI grading systems goes beyond issues of bias and cultural sensitivity. They also fail to account for the complex and nuanced nature of human thought. In particular, they often struggle to identify and reward critical thinking skills, instead prioritizing more superficial aspects of student performance. This can lead to a situation in which students are able to generate well-structured and grammatically correct essays that are entirely wrong, simply by following the rules.

This is not an ideal scenario for education, as it suggests that students may be able to fool AI systems into thinking they have learned something, even if they haven't. It also raises important questions about the role of human educators in this process. Are we relying too heavily on technology to assess student learning, rather than engaging with them directly and providing feedback? The answer is not clear, but it is evident that traditional methods of grading student work are no longer sufficient.

One possible solution to this problem is to go back to basics and reevaluate our approach to education. Rather than relying on AI systems to grade student work, perhaps we should focus on developing our own critical thinking skills. This could involve incorporating more hands-on and experiential learning into our curriculum, as well as encouraging students to think creatively and critically.

The problem is that this approach may not be feasible in the current educational landscape, where technology is increasingly playing a major role in assessment and evaluation. Many educators and policymakers are already struggling to keep up with the demands of digital education, and it's unclear whether we can simply "go back" to more traditional methods of teaching and learning.

Furthermore, there is also a social aspect to this issue as our current grading system which relies heavily on algorithms doesn't teach us how to communicate effectively. We are teaching kids that we is correct but you know what people talk about in real life. They don't say "we" they say "I".

Another issue with these systems is the way it makes teachers grade work which is extremely challenging and can be very discouraging for many educators who value student performance over algorithmic results.

The algorithm itself is not racist, but it stumbles across words it doesn’t know. It's like a word salad you're talking about so if we say this is the correct use of the word cram, uhland excellent plus ten points I just literally like that. So it's interesting now but to go back to grading by hand I don't think we could ever do that. I know it's just too much work. It's too much work and nobody wants to do it.

But, if we look at it in a different way, it's not about the student or the teacher. The algorithm is simply following the rules. We have created this system where we expect AI systems to be able to identify violence against animals but can't make moral judgments like humans do. So what would happen when they see that the robot was made of plastic and was just a toy, but it's being treated as if it was alive.

And also, how about nature videos? If a pack of hyenas is pulling down a water buffalo or wildebeest, would it get flagged because AI can't tell the difference between a robot and an animal. It's like having two cats fighting on a YouTube channel - would that get flagged as cruelty? We all love watching cat fights but if we use this algorithm to flag it, then what about other videos of animals in conflict.

The lack of distinction between these different types of content is telling. The AI system cannot differentiate between violence against animals and animal-related content. This highlights a broader problem - that our current approach to education relies too heavily on technology, and not enough on human judgment and critical thinking skills.

In the end, it's clear that traditional methods of grading student work are no longer sufficient in the digital age. We need to find new ways of evaluating student learning, ones that take into account the complexities of human thought and the nuances of cultural communication. By reevaluating our approach to education and incorporating more hands-on and experiential learning, we can create a more effective and equitable system for assessing student performance.

However, this may require a fundamental shift in how we think about education and technology. It's time to rethink the role of AI systems in our educational landscape and prioritize human judgment and critical thinking skills over algorithmic results.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit's Tuesday August 27th and you may have noticed not actually Krista Krista is missing for the better part of a month at this point right yeah she's moving but we didn't know that we would have scheduled the news around that before let's start with the G PI or at least his his business now this is kind of a nothing Berger story but it's still being reported and the reason I say it's a nothing Berger story is because of course we already knew this who didn't know this the FCC has no idea how many people don't have internet or don't have broadband access internet access and the reason this headline is happening is because two states are now there is peas in those states are now reporting their subscriber base the new way that we've been talking about over the last couple of weeks 38% 38% of the people that were previously reported do not have internet access do not in fact have internet access that's 38% of rural homes and businesses that the FCC previously counted as having internet access do not in fact have internet access that's more than it's almost a half a million unconnected homes here's what's worried about this story though so this is cost quest associates a consulting firm working for u.s. telecom an industry lobby group that represents ATT Verizon century League frontier and other fiber and DSL broadband providers so it's kind of weird how a lobbyist that's working for the industry PI kind of fudged the numbers to make it look better for them yeah but now all of a sudden they've hired outside counsel to be like no he's wrong yeah like is that a PR move her well no it's by law it's they have a change like the law is that they they change the way that it was reporting because a couple of weeks ago or over the last few weeks we've covered how it used to be if you service one home in a census block that counts but they no longer counts by law but if you're the lobby group and you're hiring these people could they just not find one that would lie apparently it is really interesting though I mean as much as we do the level of one news Jeep ha very hard-working luck in the most evil way possible to be sure he's the hardest-working man in corruption work it's it's crazy though like most politicians like you don't there's just nothing to report on week to week what they're doing but he is single-handedly dismantling the broadband infrastructure in America it's crazy listen he appreciates his position he knows who got him to the dance and he's going to serve them and that's not the American people robocalling this is another story that we hear week after week after week and it's always the same thing and here's more of it phone companies been state attorneys general announced a broad campaign to fight robo calls so let me just sum up what's happened here the technical people have managed to convince the state Attorneys General that are mostly Luddites that they're gonna handle this and that everything will be fine and it'll be totally ok but what this is actually turning into is a scheme for telecom companies to actually make more money from robo calls it's basically not we're gonna block robo calls it is we need you to pay us in order to Robo call which of course naturally will result in a reduction of robo calls but also an opportunity for profit it's this derp shakin thing now we reported on this the camera which company it was they're like yeah we've got this technology we're gonna give it to our mobile customers but not everybody else and so I think some things have happened and some deals have been made so now they are gonna give it to everybody else and they're gonna share it amongst the industry do you think the telecom companies made it this bad in the first place in order to have a new alternative revenue stream now they probably didn't they're not that forward think they're just capitalizing on a crisis let's allow this problem to fester and then sit back and collect the fees check out this stock photo they went to such great lengths to match the the theme of the phone to the nails that's attention to detail if your stock photographer good job story number three continues the trend it's the same stuff week after week it's almost as if they have these talking points that they know people want to hear and they just keep saying them and these websites keep running the stories shame on you TechCrunch not really I mean it's fine states to launch antitrust investigation into big tech companies a report says so you're thinking about tech companies what they really mean is Facebook mostly Google not far behind that Amazon Amazon and some Twitter please Twitter is very surprising because Twitter is hemorrhaging money well it's not we talked about this last week I don't think it's so much the money as it is the political clout yeah we blocked that video the shaping of the public thinking and now this is a little bit different because this is attorneys general of variety states before last week it was the FTC so this week it's the state's but everybody's got these companies in their crosshairs you got to be shaking in your boots if you're Zuckerberg there was one thing in this article but I had not considered and that is you know how we were talking about you know the whole Facebook merger of Instagram and it's going to be Instagram by Facebook a little bit like Jacob by Marc Jacobs for Marc Jacobs that that whole thing so if Facebook proceeds with that level of integration it internally company wise that's gonna make up make a break up as a result of this in the in the not-too-distant future much more difficult well I think the FTC guy mentioned that and then article last week there's like hey we're telling you that this is wrong and that we're looking into it and you're you're consolidating we need to hurry up the consolidation to make it more difficult for you to to do that I think does that mean that Google with alphabet is more forward-thinking so that if there is a monopoly breakup they can just be like that all the components of alphabet are now autonomous we don't care probably but it won't really be like that even if all the components of alphabet were autonomous if search was one of those that's large enough to be considered a monopoly on its own but are you gonna stop the search team from working with the ad team those are so integrated yeah that would be difficult yeah that's look you're not allowed to work together by law and then you're not allowed to use the search data to fuel the ads so what's the point of the ads so you kind of oh that's foreshadowing for another story about the ad sandbox thing well and so now we can remove we can get out of the trend of the same old same old this is one that you rarely hear and this is some excellent news and you know you can't have to wonder because the email spear-phishing and scamming is so ubiquitous I mean we get them every day but nobody ever gets caught right well finally just the department has indicted 80 individuals in a massive business email scam bust so the Department of Justice and the FBI worked together on this one and they actually rounded up 80 people and they've been charged so this is gonna be interesting to see how this unfolds these individuals were responsible for sending millions upon millions of emails well these individuals weren't the people that were actually doing the grunt work of the scam are in Africa these guys were just here to move the money around and they mentioned it was like 80 million dollars yeah they made a lot of money from this there are a lot of lonely old people that talk to the Microsoft supports cameras and gave them a lot of money yeah and these are not agreements these are the Nigerian Prince's that you've heard of which is funny because they really do have millions of dollars they're not gonna give it to you now I will say that well I mean this is I don't know I probably shouldn't say that but there is a certain I remember an argument from a politician a number of years ago that was something to the effect of the heathens in Nigeria got internet access they weren't ready for it of course this is going to happen and we discover we brought it on ourselves but is it really heathen reaiiy mean they're kind of droid at using it yeah does we're the idiots in this equation yeah now let's see Valentin ero and give a given that one a shot can you pronounce that Valentin ero and cuckoo cuckoo D I think that's right uh Chris dog McGinnis inguk way you really didn't get the last big book with Bach way big buck way yeah these were the I guess the highest level guys that caught these are the guys that had it was three billion dollars since 2015 Wow it's a billion dollar industry that is staggering not just because of the amount of money well you think the average well deal is really it costs three billion dollars but they only made a few million like well the ransomware destroyed three billion dollars worth of businesses but a very small fraction of people actually paid but they do mention some like thirty million or something but so what do you think is the average take her wake them like per victim hmm well if the victim responds it's a lot but if the victim doesn't respond then it's not much Sophie if you take into if a million if it's everybody who received an email it's pennies on the dollar I mean it's like you know they profited about five cents per email thanks TechCrunch I did too much scrolling anyway I'm glad they caught him although the true offenders remain the African Prince's remain at large we do have extradition with Africa I think I'll give them up no I don't think I think that I mean so this is a is the situation where the criminal enterprise was literally happening in California not Nigeria it's just that the dudes in California were were actually from Nigeria but it was like I know some people in another country that would happily do this email thing and it's like well I think they were funneling money back yeah so follow the money right do you remember that time that that ruling came against Qualcomm just out of nowhere from the FTC and the government was like at odds about whether or not we should do it and everybody was like what's going on here because this was the week after Qualcomm and Apple settled their stuff yeah and the Qualcomm was riding high because they had one well that story continues to drag on and nothing's really happening Qualcomm wins a pause in the enforcement of the FTC ruling so the FTC ruled against Qualcomm in the antitrust suit which is amazing to me because a lot of the evidence in the FTC antitrust thing was from Apple and in the Apple versus Qualcomm suit it showed that Apple was acting in bad faith quite plainly very bad faith malicious in fact and I don't understand how the FTC didn't look at the evidence presented in that case and maybe think that Apple was being you know not exactly honest so the ruling here is they invalidated all of those licensing agreements and they had to go back and renegotiate without the requirement what other requirement they license a patent rise so this puts a pause on that so I guess those agreements will go forward for another was it 90 days and it's worth pointing out that the the patent licensing thing is was part of something called Fran's like fair and reasonable I don't know friend is like an industry standard patent licensing practice and Qualcomm technology legit is the most valuable like that was demonstrated with Intel constantly dropping the ball with their 5g modem both in terms of power utilization and in terms of just how good it was and Qualcomm was not pulling you don't say an Intel or it's like oh we've got the market leader we're gonna charge you three thousand dollars for that twenty eight core five gigahertz processor that requires one horsepower of liquid cooling that's that's what market leaders do and Qualcomm is not doing that we'll see maybe I'll just let them on maybe after they get their teeth into Facebook and Apple and Google and get that revenue stream they'll just quietly let come go the drones we of course have learned that you know we're gonna get delivery by drone and we're gonna get surveillance by drone and drones are going to kill us eventually I mean they're kind of already doing that so what do you if you are the keeper of the drones that has to keep you up at night right because you know what they're capable of what do you do there's an answer the US Army wants to microwave drones in midair i powered microwave weapons with fried the electronics in an unmanned aerial vehicle basically phasers from Star Trek this is a very early phaser from Star Trek and they're gonna you know shoot stuff out of the air this is literally just a big-ass generator that's all that's in that box is a big generator and this this thing up here is the microwave and they have a little video oh it's only a few seconds long oh there she goes yeah that's the marker it's a little anticlimactic because you can't see it and it's now the cool thing about this is they talk about how there's a targeting system but it's pretty broad spectrum microwave so even if the targeting system is taken offline just point it in the general direction of where you think they're coming and it'll take them down as long as the generators running the other thing is fleets of drones which we're afraid of you know it's like swarming drones each with their own bomb or whatever no problem for this thing just just you know back and forth to wipe them out definitely don't stand in front of it that could be bad for your internal organs and your cellular makeup for sure a lot of thing also that's another foreshadowing for a story later later this week or later in this episode this one turned out to be a video but it's not a complicated thing so this is the shortest story that we've ever had on the little one we've had videos by mistake before but it is interesting so what was the name of these little pouches I've seen these used in concerts it's like the little artifice pouches they have a brand name or whatever but you can't like if you go to a concert or a comedy show or something sometimes they'll secure your phone in this little pouch it's like checking your coat on the way out you give me card and they unlock it and they take their pouch back well we've got a new user of the pouches California High School's as it turns out has been students from using smartphones so you go to the school you get a little badge it goes in the little RF blocking pouch and it locks and the only way to unlock it is like with the token or whatever so nice so you get it back at the end of the day you do get to keep your phone but you don't get to now there's one part of this video I wanted to okay this is the part of video right here they the like the the scroll under this identifies this guy's a student what does he 36 look at that guy like that's a high school student there's a lot of hormones in the some of the students were lamenting it and one of the things that the biggest complaint was I'm not even allowed to do it at lunchtime yeah and like what happens also if your phone starts ringing it's in the patch you can't stop it right no it's a it blocks radio waves I thought maybe Don oh yeah I guess it could easily just be a little Faraday cage so I expect this will pick up we'll see more of this yeah we just spread by the propaganda from that company they probably sponsored this video look at how much the grades have improved since people aren't worrying about instant communication anymore some of the kids actually did you admit that they felt like they were doing better so uh gosh there's a several clicks to get to the meat of this thing of who was affected here we go area so there's really no headline this is the Texas gov page but the story is cyber attack that affected a lot of agencies so the types of governments like to share their infrastructure it was the Federal Bureau of Investigation cyber in Texas Federal Emergency Management Agency in in Texas other cybersecurity partners in Texas the Texas Division of Emergency Management the Texas military department Texas A&M University systems wait why is the varsity connected to these things don't attend Department of Public Safety cybersecurity computer information systems technology and electronic crime unit and several other divisions massive massive cyber attack the whole state basically everything was connected together which is a no-no so they are having a pretty hard time and they have this is update what was it like update number three or whatever's so they're kind of giving a blow-by-blow of what happened and telling these government agencies here's what to do considering nothing works I don't know if they've fixed it up by now or not they did not do an update after August 20th yeah they do confirm it was ransomware so it's amazing that the rain somewhere was able to spread through the network that completely what do you think um I guess this is just the Glacial movement of bureaucracy what do you think government agencies that haven't been affected by now are they aware of this are they talking about this no like hey did you guys see that what happened in all these other states and it was the worst thing ever what if that happened to us the other agencies that haven't been affected by this is it's just because they haven't imported the rain somewhere to card punch yet so look forward to this coming to your town soon your town doesn't even have proper backups what are we talking about space crying I read this it just this seems like a nothing burger that the media is like just running wild with well it's a juicy story right because only because space well not just because of space because space crime is so hot it's the first time we've had a space crown right unless you count the drilling of the hole in a space station I don't want to know what happened to me but that could have been malicious but this is I guess not convicted but proven space crime also it was a woman which is you know that's hot news and her partner was a woman we who was the victim so this checks all the boxes well so the headline for the BBC news is NASA said to be investigating the first allegation of a crime in space so apparently these two had shared a bank account but they separated and they no longer shared a bank account but the space crime here was that the one partner checked the other partners bank account now from space from space that's the important part from the space station literally use the space station connection to log into a bank now she said through her lawyer that the reason for that was to check to make sure that her partner had enough money to take care of a kid there's a kid I think they had a like a joint child I don't know if it was adopted or if like one of them had it so I don't know I don't know if this is what was that wrong should I not have been that situation or if that was like this doesn't really seem that malicious because it wasn't like she's taking money or anything like that but the other one did report it and press charges yeah so but she had the password it's not like she hacked into it it's like she knew the password well just because she knows that's where doesn't mean it's okay to log into their bank account that's true that I mean this is now should she do time for this probably not that seems excessive overboard but at the same time okay throw out everything you know about this story and make it like a creepy stalker ish guy who won't leave somebody alone no and and he's doing this from the jail instead of the Space Station and you're gonna look at it under a different light what if it was a joint bank account that they just hadn't settled yet like it was originally a joint bank account and then it was it's not now because they're separated but they just hadn't finalized that if her name was still on it wouldn't there when everything wrong with it I had to be under the other person's name yeah only the other person's name I don't know if there's criminal charges yet or not but maybe it's a great headline and we've established space crime so now they do answer the question you're wondering who takes care of space crime right well this would be a federal investigation because it across the state line but there's a rule about space and it's whatever nation you're from prosecutes you for your space crimes under the laws of that nation which is interesting because like what if we had somebody in the Space Station who was from a place with Sharia law I was thinking more like Russia like what if the person in Russia was like installing malware on the space station and it's like hey Putin ordered me to do this or China you know he's watching some copyright films up there and like he pirated those like bran from China back off we don't I think it's already like that and speaking of space remember that scrappy little indian space program Chandra in and they were going to the moon those limited thing good news I made it to the moon the Indian spacecraft launched last month is now orbiting the moon the next thing is it's going to land it's gonna land in a flat spot between two craters and it's AI hand-wavy that is gonna try to pilot the thing and have a soft landing its landing somewhere that no other Lander moon lander has ever landed before and it's gonna try to figure out exactly how much water is hidden in these two craters cuz they're in shadows because of where they are what's the dark side so it's the Dark Side of the Moon and that's why there's ice there and they suspect there could be tons and tons of ice there yeah which will make a perfect Space Station place space gas station although in perpetual darkness in perpetual darkness well I mean if they can manufacture fuel just start you know burning it like have the have the oxygen and the fuel and then just burn it for light maybe the moon will end up with a thin atmosphere that seems a little wasteful how great would it be if we managed to terraform the moon by mistake by polluting it to the point that we created greenhouse gases the old unintended consequences well facial recognition and we talk about this every week now here in the states there's this very two-sided approach to facial recognition some are more liberal states and cities are outright banning it and some of the more aggressive ones are basically partnering with Amazon and we have it's a it's very different but over in the EU they're looking to make some laws about this the EU wants to want strict limits for indiscriminate facial recognition Europe could introduce sweeping reforms governing how facial recognition and technology can be used so seen that has a write up here at an article there are some differing opinions in the EU as to how this should work but it seems like pretty much universally they agree that law enforcement should not have access to a database of facial recognition where they can just you know google the database basically and be like you know where was Katie Holmes this week they also think there should be rules about and when you are under facial recognition that it needs to be a ton of signage so that you know because you should have the option of just turning around and walking away before you get into facial recognize you're getting really near Downing Street so you're on CCTV but the facial recognition is turned on but when you cross this street the facial recognition will be turned up to 11 you know what they should do they should graduate the coloring of the street lights for the level of surveillance you start out at a nice green and you go into it just a deep foreboding read a nice Kremlin read have you seen the footage those Hong Kong protesters okay are cutting down the facial recognition camera trees that's amazing that is what a great protest I mean when you see people on marches and like burning cars and setting businesses on fire it's like what are we really accomplishing here but you gotta give it up to the Chinese you know they're so pragmatic they're getting some good stuff done while they're doing their protests like listen we're not gonna we're not gonna loot Tony's pizza he's a hard-working businessman but that camera recognition tower it's coming down I think it's great fantastic we have heard of a lot of weird things happening with the internet come out of Ukraine you know Ukraine was the one that shut down the heating right yeah in the building because it was money kripacharya and a lot of this is another one of those places where kind of like Nigeria where it's kind of lawless but you have some really talented people who don't have a means to otherwise you use that talent or that intelligence so they do stuff like this employees connecting nuclear plant to the internet so they can mine cryptocurrency yeah it's a nuclear plant tons of free electricity what do you get when you have free electricity you know it makes a lot of sense yeah and you know probably would have never noticed that even that huge draw on electricity in a nuclear plant right you know that's it really is a great place to do it but they were found out they found the hardware and they were trying to hide it in like the nondescript regular office computers which in you know like Ukraine is former Soviet they were probably like the drab you know the brown basic cube PC case so it looks like it's from the 80s what is this 486 have a 28 et il that's the thing it had was it there were four 70s I think right yeah they mentioned what they were it wasn't a six man yeah yeah the RX 470 GPU and they had six in one situation and then they had five from you another one with more of a minute so what they're talking about here is this is they're not charging them with theft even though that's what you think they would do but they're saying because the nuclear power plant is a critical infrastructure and a state building by doing this you've created a security risk and that's what they're going after them for which probably carries a lot more of a penalty yeah now if they just plugged into the electrical grid and ran their own networking wires it would have been fine well mostly they so there was like an administrative building and then there was the plant itself and they were in the administrative building and I don't they ZDNet did not was they weren't able to ascertain if the two networks were connected so that might have might have been you know the case although if you could get into the administrative part of the network as a hacker you would still have access to some important stuff at the very least you could you know fake an email from the administrator that's like go remove the cooling rods right now do it run a patch cable over to the other building and plug it in speaking of the Russians or at least people in the general vicinity of the Russians Moscow came up with they're gonna have an election pretty soon and they came up with a brilliant new system of course we talked last week about Georgia's voting system which Windows XP is bad and it's flawed and we found terrible problems with it but we're gonna go ahead and use it because there's no time not to well this kind of mirrors that although at least they tried right Moscow's blockchain voting system who knew cracked a month before the election French researcher Nets a fifteen thousand dollar prize for finding bugs in Moscow's aetherium based voting system so I wonder how Moscow coerces the votes like those I just have people standing over the people that are voting and is like no you're gonna vote this way well so the way that this is compromised is very suspicious I think because it isn't the method of cryptography it's that they used a shockingly short key a key so short that the researcher beated in twenty minutes with a desktop and it was a French guy he was like listen I don't speak the language that this software is in so I don't know exactly how much I just broke it but here's the the private key and I did this in 20 minutes so what you're saying like was that on purpose or was it just someone who didn't know they were doing yes I mean I could totally see it going both ways I could totally see it being okay we're gonna do blockchain voting cousin Vladimir you know how to do that right and he's like he woke up yeah sure and he went to the internet and he got the most basic tutorial on chain and then they used a very short key for simplicity and he implemented it or it could be how we're gonna change these votes later so make it so we can hack it and he's like I got you no problem anyway fifteen thousand dollar prize nice not bad Denmark what was this we did a story about Denmark last week what was it the royal family I think that was somewhere else we didn't know anyway Denmark is generally pretty liberal and up-to-date and you know like you don't hear all these terrible things about them usually I don't think we've ever had like that we ever had a data leak out of Denmark that might know what it was oh you have the data leak yeah anyway one thing that they do in Denmark is they use phone location just like we do if you remember the Google case where it's like the feds hey Google give us every phone that connected in this cell tower in the last month because we're looking for a murderer well they do that and Denmark but there's a problem flaws in cell phone evidence prompt review of 10,000 verdicts in Denmark so this has to do with the location finding location tracking and just even like time-of-day type stuff it's it's a-you know in these court cases the prosecutor will say is like no we knew it absolute certainty this is what this was but it turns out that it wasn't so certain and they were even associating the wrong phone numbers with certain locations which means that you could be considered a suspect in a crime you were never even there however it seems to be an import problem because the phone company said listen we just gave them access to the data arc our data is correct so we don't think this has anything to do with us this has to do with the police importing the data incorrect which is terrifying he eats so all these cases have to be reviewed and possibly retried can you imagine if the phone company system that somebody has a typo in the account name there's just an errant comma in there and like the police do they like the CSV export and then like every row after that is shifted by one and they don't notice they're like yeah this is fine yeah I could imagine that pretty easily act I think we've experienced that speaking of foreign governments and doing terrible things remember kazakhstan kazakhstan had their root certificate and it wasn't really a brilliant move it wasn't a hack they literally just said hey install this certificate or we'll kill you it doesn't get any more ham-fisted really i guess good news maybe if you're from kazakhstan because you know our glorious tech companies are taking a stand Apple Google and Mozilla block Kazakhstan's HTTP intercepting certificate so Kazakhstan has popped up and said I was just a test but this thoroughly and completely defeated their HTTPS intercepting certificate the bad news though is that this root certificate like the trust for this root certificate is still installed on a lot of pcs in Kazakhstan because ISPs told their customers that had to install this if they want an internet access and so now these companies are detecting those certificates and will not let you browse if it's injected so Kazakhstan turned it off because they called attention to the fact that Kazakhstan was doing this like I don't I think that you know your average internet going citizen in Kazakhstan might not have put two and two together like oh is P is having the install oh it means the gut the state can spy on my stuff what yeah and of course if they just started up block to you they might not understand that out it you know you got this old rural grandma in Kazakhstan she just wants to go and look at Facebook pictures of potatoes and now she can't do that so it's a mess and you got a wonder yeah I don't think this is gonna stop them I think they'll just try to be a little bit more covert yeah in their next attempt this was just a test which is what they said to avoid utter embarrassment I should already be embarrassed we talked about crimes in space but other things went to space this week as well and this one is considerably more exciting I think Russia sends its first humanoid robot Fedor into space it's like a virtual reality augmented reality that the dude in the VR helmet is the robot and it's being held up with rope I just noticed I think that's just for the photo okay it's gonna be weightless they said that uh they strapped him in and the robot pilot said here we go here we go I think I guess I guess that's something like what Yuri Gagarin said that the first Russian that was in orbit first person to orbit also was Russian before the corrections I believe it is Fyodor I know that because of Emelianenko so yeah he's gonna go up into space and we don't know how good he is at doing things in zero-gravity that's what they're trying to do now the cool thing about him he's AI he can learn these tasks once they are performed so let's say you have him Turner screw with a screwdriver a couple of times well then maybe he'll be able to do that on its own we're sending the robot to space because we can't have the cosmonauts drilling holes in the side of the space station anymore that the robot I'll just vent the compartment into space close it and then and he he's guaranteed not to hack your bank account he likes the manual dexterity we also talked about maybe he would be used for deep space missions once he gets good he's gonna get good for a while then we'll just launch him out hold the communication there would be a problem I mean the latency of signals to the moon is substantial so well that's the thing once he learns he can just be on autopilot he doesn't have to have the human driver anymore so I don't know how good he'd be at analyzing what to apply to a given situation it would be a loose screw you know you can figure that out I honestly expected Amazon to do this first like they've got the little wrist things and we joked about that and I sort of expected Amazon to be the first people with humanoid robots that were trained based on like the wrist Pickers data so like the anti strained that way what if you had so you've got those shelfs that drive themselves right and they have quadrant setup on that's how they track everything right so let's say you're getting a book from quadrant 4 how many other Amazon employees at that same moment are getting a book from quadrant 4 what if those other ones were robots and they were simply waiting for a human to hit the same quadrant for the same type of item to mimic their movement we don't know how to do this we gotta wait for a human to do it okay now we know but you still suck time right and money yes way mo we talked about ups having the self-driving truck that was secret and actually somebody that comment was like hey you said where's way mo here in Phoenix because Phoenix is where they do everything they're everywhere and we hate them but thank you random commenter the suffering of the phoenicians might be benefiting the rest of humanity way mo has released a self-driving open data set for free for use by the research community so probably all of this data is coming from Phoenix yeah and now you might be thinking that's a little crazy to give that to your competitors right well there is a license agreement I imagine it's pretty egregious but they're saying that they'll give this to academics but they could also be talked into giving it to a small self-driving startup type of deal hmm because they do want to move the end forward how long until Elon Musk downloads this oh he's definitely got a copy he's starting a university right now just to get a copy of this he flew to American Samoa just because the license couldn't be enforced there ironically he's going to resurrect the University of Phoenix I was not aware of this have you ever heard of this before yes yes this is surprising to me so when we were growing up they had just converted before right before our time all standardized testing was bubble sheets and we did that in grade school but by the time we got to high school it was like no we must write essays everyone must write essays and grading essays takes a long time and I imagine that you want to kill yourself after about 20 of them it's got to be pretty especially for high school students well there's an answer flawed algorithms are grading millions of students essays fooled by gibberish and highly susceptible to human bias automated essay scoring systems are being increasingly adopted the motherboard investigation has found so I think probably about a year ago we did a story on a student has submitted a paper that was just complete gibbering where it salad yeah I remember that now yeah and this is you know they're still using it it's like as fun you know what student that's gonna have the balls to submit a word salad paper there's all kind of a lot now they point out two unique instances of how this works now at least it's funny because they claim that this is somewhat racist right but a wee language is a standard there is a right and wrong so they point out that overwhelmingly black students because of their cultural bias they don't use proper grammar and they'll leave out words and they'll mix things around in sentences and you know I mean we've all heard the the cultural speak of some people and the the algorithm hates it and it marks it down and they're saying that the algorithm cannot identify a Tiffany or even a correct answer all it sees is we is and it just flushes it meanwhile Chinese students who also were not great at the language game were amazing at vocabulary and the algorithm loves it because it's kind of like the word salad you're talking about so and you know pretty consistently they would see that black students would be graded low whereas Chinese students would be graded high which is interesting because the algorithm doesn't know the race of the child yeah it's like it it stumbles across the words it's like the whole this is the correct use of the word cram uhland excellent plus ten points I just literally like that so it's interesting now but to at this point to go back to grading by hand I don't think we could ever do that I know it's just too much work it's too much work and nobody wants to do it so what sort of a hell have we created for ourselves when it's like we just we can't even be bothered to educate the next generation it's too much work no one wants to do this but I will say as much as you know you I can't be racist let's just let's just stop pretending that it is it can't be it is just the fact that we give it rules to follow and it's following them but are we really teaching our children anything if we're not grading them based on actually coming to the right conclusion it's how well they presented it not just that but also it's like is there a thinking problem here or is there like a rationality problem because you could get into a situation where the student is writing something that is completely like the wrong way to think about a problem and the AI would never catch that it would be like oh yeah this is really well reasoned if I okay if you gave me a problem about the curvature of the earth right like I'm estimating some some issue based on the travel of a bullet concerning the curvature of the earth and bullet drop and I as a student I gave you a brilliantly worded perfectly grammatically correct essay about the earth being flat do I get graded well for yes yeah you absolutely would what kind of terrifying world is that unrelated there was one of those flat earther shows or the guy accidentally proved that earth was around and he was like huh that's weird I'll have to look into that we got a great flat earth story coming up later no not in this episode I can't remember which section it's saying actually I think it's in social media oh I thought this was going to nonsense but I guess it's fine you put this in here well is this do we okay yet because we're doing robots I thought robots was gonna go with mom you categorize this one it's I can't think there's a possibility for that one so yeah this is nonsense but if you think about it again it's the AI yeah and the AI simply cannot make moral or critical thinking calls like you were saying it's not racist it just sees violence against something and it's like no this must stop save the robots the YouTube accidentally removed robot battle videos for animal cruelty robot builders across the country cut out in agony this is mostly fixed at this point but there are still reports of videos that are being flagged for animal cruelty and there are still a lot of videos with animal cruelty on YouTube it's crazy but yeah it's like oh look this robot exploded it's like nope animal cruelty who's consuming those videos that really a popular thing to watch animal cruelty you know it's crazy oh wow so but I also wonder what about nature videos like if a pack of lines is pulling down a water buffalo or wildebeest that's gonna get a flag how would it know the difference because if it can't tell the difference between a robot and a small animal and if the robots are just fighting like I've definitely on the level one caste channel we have two cats fighting on there is that gonna get flagged because I assure you there's no cruelty there's what they love it I am sure that all of that is gonna be t monetized including this video for just even mentioning any of this one cats is not that's it for this episode we'll see you tomorrow when we're gonna have business and I can't remember what the other one is I think it'll be I think we're gonna do social on Friday so probably business and security business and security and definitely not Krista see you tomorrowit's Tuesday August 27th and you may have noticed not actually Krista Krista is missing for the better part of a month at this point right yeah she's moving but we didn't know that we would have scheduled the news around that before let's start with the G PI or at least his his business now this is kind of a nothing Berger story but it's still being reported and the reason I say it's a nothing Berger story is because of course we already knew this who didn't know this the FCC has no idea how many people don't have internet or don't have broadband access internet access and the reason this headline is happening is because two states are now there is peas in those states are now reporting their subscriber base the new way that we've been talking about over the last couple of weeks 38% 38% of the people that were previously reported do not have internet access do not in fact have internet access that's 38% of rural homes and businesses that the FCC previously counted as having internet access do not in fact have internet access that's more than it's almost a half a million unconnected homes here's what's worried about this story though so this is cost quest associates a consulting firm working for u.s. telecom an industry lobby group that represents ATT Verizon century League frontier and other fiber and DSL broadband providers so it's kind of weird how a lobbyist that's working for the industry PI kind of fudged the numbers to make it look better for them yeah but now all of a sudden they've hired outside counsel to be like no he's wrong yeah like is that a PR move her well no it's by law it's they have a change like the law is that they they change the way that it was reporting because a couple of weeks ago or over the last few weeks we've covered how it used to be if you service one home in a census block that counts but they no longer counts by law but if you're the lobby group and you're hiring these people could they just not find one that would lie apparently it is really interesting though I mean as much as we do the level of one news Jeep ha very hard-working luck in the most evil way possible to be sure he's the hardest-working man in corruption work it's it's crazy though like most politicians like you don't there's just nothing to report on week to week what they're doing but he is single-handedly dismantling the broadband infrastructure in America it's crazy listen he appreciates his position he knows who got him to the dance and he's going to serve them and that's not the American people robocalling this is another story that we hear week after week after week and it's always the same thing and here's more of it phone companies been state attorneys general announced a broad campaign to fight robo calls so let me just sum up what's happened here the technical people have managed to convince the state Attorneys General that are mostly Luddites that they're gonna handle this and that everything will be fine and it'll be totally ok but what this is actually turning into is a scheme for telecom companies to actually make more money from robo calls it's basically not we're gonna block robo calls it is we need you to pay us in order to Robo call which of course naturally will result in a reduction of robo calls but also an opportunity for profit it's this derp shakin thing now we reported on this the camera which company it was they're like yeah we've got this technology we're gonna give it to our mobile customers but not everybody else and so I think some things have happened and some deals have been made so now they are gonna give it to everybody else and they're gonna share it amongst the industry do you think the telecom companies made it this bad in the first place in order to have a new alternative revenue stream now they probably didn't they're not that forward think they're just capitalizing on a crisis let's allow this problem to fester and then sit back and collect the fees check out this stock photo they went to such great lengths to match the the theme of the phone to the nails that's attention to detail if your stock photographer good job story number three continues the trend it's the same stuff week after week it's almost as if they have these talking points that they know people want to hear and they just keep saying them and these websites keep running the stories shame on you TechCrunch not really I mean it's fine states to launch antitrust investigation into big tech companies a report says so you're thinking about tech companies what they really mean is Facebook mostly Google not far behind that Amazon Amazon and some Twitter please Twitter is very surprising because Twitter is hemorrhaging money well it's not we talked about this last week I don't think it's so much the money as it is the political clout yeah we blocked that video the shaping of the public thinking and now this is a little bit different because this is attorneys general of variety states before last week it was the FTC so this week it's the state's but everybody's got these companies in their crosshairs you got to be shaking in your boots if you're Zuckerberg there was one thing in this article but I had not considered and that is you know how we were talking about you know the whole Facebook merger of Instagram and it's going to be Instagram by Facebook a little bit like Jacob by Marc Jacobs for Marc Jacobs that that whole thing so if Facebook proceeds with that level of integration it internally company wise that's gonna make up make a break up as a result of this in the in the not-too-distant future much more difficult well I think the FTC guy mentioned that and then article last week there's like hey we're telling you that this is wrong and that we're looking into it and you're you're consolidating we need to hurry up the consolidation to make it more difficult for you to to do that I think does that mean that Google with alphabet is more forward-thinking so that if there is a monopoly breakup they can just be like that all the components of alphabet are now autonomous we don't care probably but it won't really be like that even if all the components of alphabet were autonomous if search was one of those that's large enough to be considered a monopoly on its own but are you gonna stop the search team from working with the ad team those are so integrated yeah that would be difficult yeah that's look you're not allowed to work together by law and then you're not allowed to use the search data to fuel the ads so what's the point of the ads so you kind of oh that's foreshadowing for another story about the ad sandbox thing well and so now we can remove we can get out of the trend of the same old same old this is one that you rarely hear and this is some excellent news and you know you can't have to wonder because the email spear-phishing and scamming is so ubiquitous I mean we get them every day but nobody ever gets caught right well finally just the department has indicted 80 individuals in a massive business email scam bust so the Department of Justice and the FBI worked together on this one and they actually rounded up 80 people and they've been charged so this is gonna be interesting to see how this unfolds these individuals were responsible for sending millions upon millions of emails well these individuals weren't the people that were actually doing the grunt work of the scam are in Africa these guys were just here to move the money around and they mentioned it was like 80 million dollars yeah they made a lot of money from this there are a lot of lonely old people that talk to the Microsoft supports cameras and gave them a lot of money yeah and these are not agreements these are the Nigerian Prince's that you've heard of which is funny because they really do have millions of dollars they're not gonna give it to you now I will say that well I mean this is I don't know I probably shouldn't say that but there is a certain I remember an argument from a politician a number of years ago that was something to the effect of the heathens in Nigeria got internet access they weren't ready for it of course this is going to happen and we discover we brought it on ourselves but is it really heathen reaiiy mean they're kind of droid at using it yeah does we're the idiots in this equation yeah now let's see Valentin ero and give a given that one a shot can you pronounce that Valentin ero and cuckoo cuckoo D I think that's right uh Chris dog McGinnis inguk way you really didn't get the last big book with Bach way big buck way yeah these were the I guess the highest level guys that caught these are the guys that had it was three billion dollars since 2015 Wow it's a billion dollar industry that is staggering not just because of the amount of money well you think the average well deal is really it costs three billion dollars but they only made a few million like well the ransomware destroyed three billion dollars worth of businesses but a very small fraction of people actually paid but they do mention some like thirty million or something but so what do you think is the average take her wake them like per victim hmm well if the victim responds it's a lot but if the victim doesn't respond then it's not much Sophie if you take into if a million if it's everybody who received an email it's pennies on the dollar I mean it's like you know they profited about five cents per email thanks TechCrunch I did too much scrolling anyway I'm glad they caught him although the true offenders remain the African Prince's remain at large we do have extradition with Africa I think I'll give them up no I don't think I think that I mean so this is a is the situation where the criminal enterprise was literally happening in California not Nigeria it's just that the dudes in California were were actually from Nigeria but it was like I know some people in another country that would happily do this email thing and it's like well I think they were funneling money back yeah so follow the money right do you remember that time that that ruling came against Qualcomm just out of nowhere from the FTC and the government was like at odds about whether or not we should do it and everybody was like what's going on here because this was the week after Qualcomm and Apple settled their stuff yeah and the Qualcomm was riding high because they had one well that story continues to drag on and nothing's really happening Qualcomm wins a pause in the enforcement of the FTC ruling so the FTC ruled against Qualcomm in the antitrust suit which is amazing to me because a lot of the evidence in the FTC antitrust thing was from Apple and in the Apple versus Qualcomm suit it showed that Apple was acting in bad faith quite plainly very bad faith malicious in fact and I don't understand how the FTC didn't look at the evidence presented in that case and maybe think that Apple was being you know not exactly honest so the ruling here is they invalidated all of those licensing agreements and they had to go back and renegotiate without the requirement what other requirement they license a patent rise so this puts a pause on that so I guess those agreements will go forward for another was it 90 days and it's worth pointing out that the the patent licensing thing is was part of something called Fran's like fair and reasonable I don't know friend is like an industry standard patent licensing practice and Qualcomm technology legit is the most valuable like that was demonstrated with Intel constantly dropping the ball with their 5g modem both in terms of power utilization and in terms of just how good it was and Qualcomm was not pulling you don't say an Intel or it's like oh we've got the market leader we're gonna charge you three thousand dollars for that twenty eight core five gigahertz processor that requires one horsepower of liquid cooling that's that's what market leaders do and Qualcomm is not doing that we'll see maybe I'll just let them on maybe after they get their teeth into Facebook and Apple and Google and get that revenue stream they'll just quietly let come go the drones we of course have learned that you know we're gonna get delivery by drone and we're gonna get surveillance by drone and drones are going to kill us eventually I mean they're kind of already doing that so what do you if you are the keeper of the drones that has to keep you up at night right because you know what they're capable of what do you do there's an answer the US Army wants to microwave drones in midair i powered microwave weapons with fried the electronics in an unmanned aerial vehicle basically phasers from Star Trek this is a very early phaser from Star Trek and they're gonna you know shoot stuff out of the air this is literally just a big-ass generator that's all that's in that box is a big generator and this this thing up here is the microwave and they have a little video oh it's only a few seconds long oh there she goes yeah that's the marker it's a little anticlimactic because you can't see it and it's now the cool thing about this is they talk about how there's a targeting system but it's pretty broad spectrum microwave so even if the targeting system is taken offline just point it in the general direction of where you think they're coming and it'll take them down as long as the generators running the other thing is fleets of drones which we're afraid of you know it's like swarming drones each with their own bomb or whatever no problem for this thing just just you know back and forth to wipe them out definitely don't stand in front of it that could be bad for your internal organs and your cellular makeup for sure a lot of thing also that's another foreshadowing for a story later later this week or later in this episode this one turned out to be a video but it's not a complicated thing so this is the shortest story that we've ever had on the little one we've had videos by mistake before but it is interesting so what was the name of these little pouches I've seen these used in concerts it's like the little artifice pouches they have a brand name or whatever but you can't like if you go to a concert or a comedy show or something sometimes they'll secure your phone in this little pouch it's like checking your coat on the way out you give me card and they unlock it and they take their pouch back well we've got a new user of the pouches California High School's as it turns out has been students from using smartphones so you go to the school you get a little badge it goes in the little RF blocking pouch and it locks and the only way to unlock it is like with the token or whatever so nice so you get it back at the end of the day you do get to keep your phone but you don't get to now there's one part of this video I wanted to okay this is the part of video right here they the like the the scroll under this identifies this guy's a student what does he 36 look at that guy like that's a high school student there's a lot of hormones in the some of the students were lamenting it and one of the things that the biggest complaint was I'm not even allowed to do it at lunchtime yeah and like what happens also if your phone starts ringing it's in the patch you can't stop it right no it's a it blocks radio waves I thought maybe Don oh yeah I guess it could easily just be a little Faraday cage so I expect this will pick up we'll see more of this yeah we just spread by the propaganda from that company they probably sponsored this video look at how much the grades have improved since people aren't worrying about instant communication anymore some of the kids actually did you admit that they felt like they were doing better so uh gosh there's a several clicks to get to the meat of this thing of who was affected here we go area so there's really no headline this is the Texas gov page but the story is cyber attack that affected a lot of agencies so the types of governments like to share their infrastructure it was the Federal Bureau of Investigation cyber in Texas Federal Emergency Management Agency in in Texas other cybersecurity partners in Texas the Texas Division of Emergency Management the Texas military department Texas A&M University systems wait why is the varsity connected to these things don't attend Department of Public Safety cybersecurity computer information systems technology and electronic crime unit and several other divisions massive massive cyber attack the whole state basically everything was connected together which is a no-no so they are having a pretty hard time and they have this is update what was it like update number three or whatever's so they're kind of giving a blow-by-blow of what happened and telling these government agencies here's what to do considering nothing works I don't know if they've fixed it up by now or not they did not do an update after August 20th yeah they do confirm it was ransomware so it's amazing that the rain somewhere was able to spread through the network that completely what do you think um I guess this is just the Glacial movement of bureaucracy what do you think government agencies that haven't been affected by now are they aware of this are they talking about this no like hey did you guys see that what happened in all these other states and it was the worst thing ever what if that happened to us the other agencies that haven't been affected by this is it's just because they haven't imported the rain somewhere to card punch yet so look forward to this coming to your town soon your town doesn't even have proper backups what are we talking about space crying I read this it just this seems like a nothing burger that the media is like just running wild with well it's a juicy story right because only because space well not just because of space because space crime is so hot it's the first time we've had a space crown right unless you count the drilling of the hole in a space station I don't want to know what happened to me but that could have been malicious but this is I guess not convicted but proven space crime also it was a woman which is you know that's hot news and her partner was a woman we who was the victim so this checks all the boxes well so the headline for the BBC news is NASA said to be investigating the first allegation of a crime in space so apparently these two had shared a bank account but they separated and they no longer shared a bank account but the space crime here was that the one partner checked the other partners bank account now from space from space that's the important part from the space station literally use the space station connection to log into a bank now she said through her lawyer that the reason for that was to check to make sure that her partner had enough money to take care of a kid there's a kid I think they had a like a joint child I don't know if it was adopted or if like one of them had it so I don't know I don't know if this is what was that wrong should I not have been that situation or if that was like this doesn't really seem that malicious because it wasn't like she's taking money or anything like that but the other one did report it and press charges yeah so but she had the password it's not like she hacked into it it's like she knew the password well just because she knows that's where doesn't mean it's okay to log into their bank account that's true that I mean this is now should she do time for this probably not that seems excessive overboard but at the same time okay throw out everything you know about this story and make it like a creepy stalker ish guy who won't leave somebody alone no and and he's doing this from the jail instead of the Space Station and you're gonna look at it under a different light what if it was a joint bank account that they just hadn't settled yet like it was originally a joint bank account and then it was it's not now because they're separated but they just hadn't finalized that if her name was still on it wouldn't there when everything wrong with it I had to be under the other person's name yeah only the other person's name I don't know if there's criminal charges yet or not but maybe it's a great headline and we've established space crime so now they do answer the question you're wondering who takes care of space crime right well this would be a federal investigation because it across the state line but there's a rule about space and it's whatever nation you're from prosecutes you for your space crimes under the laws of that nation which is interesting because like what if we had somebody in the Space Station who was from a place with Sharia law I was thinking more like Russia like what if the person in Russia was like installing malware on the space station and it's like hey Putin ordered me to do this or China you know he's watching some copyright films up there and like he pirated those like bran from China back off we don't I think it's already like that and speaking of space remember that scrappy little indian space program Chandra in and they were going to the moon those limited thing good news I made it to the moon the Indian spacecraft launched last month is now orbiting the moon the next thing is it's going to land it's gonna land in a flat spot between two craters and it's AI hand-wavy that is gonna try to pilot the thing and have a soft landing its landing somewhere that no other Lander moon lander has ever landed before and it's gonna try to figure out exactly how much water is hidden in these two craters cuz they're in shadows because of where they are what's the dark side so it's the Dark Side of the Moon and that's why there's ice there and they suspect there could be tons and tons of ice there yeah which will make a perfect Space Station place space gas station although in perpetual darkness in perpetual darkness well I mean if they can manufacture fuel just start you know burning it like have the have the oxygen and the fuel and then just burn it for light maybe the moon will end up with a thin atmosphere that seems a little wasteful how great would it be if we managed to terraform the moon by mistake by polluting it to the point that we created greenhouse gases the old unintended consequences well facial recognition and we talk about this every week now here in the states there's this very two-sided approach to facial recognition some are more liberal states and cities are outright banning it and some of the more aggressive ones are basically partnering with Amazon and we have it's a it's very different but over in the EU they're looking to make some laws about this the EU wants to want strict limits for indiscriminate facial recognition Europe could introduce sweeping reforms governing how facial recognition and technology can be used so seen that has a write up here at an article there are some differing opinions in the EU as to how this should work but it seems like pretty much universally they agree that law enforcement should not have access to a database of facial recognition where they can just you know google the database basically and be like you know where was Katie Holmes this week they also think there should be rules about and when you are under facial recognition that it needs to be a ton of signage so that you know because you should have the option of just turning around and walking away before you get into facial recognize you're getting really near Downing Street so you're on CCTV but the facial recognition is turned on but when you cross this street the facial recognition will be turned up to 11 you know what they should do they should graduate the coloring of the street lights for the level of surveillance you start out at a nice green and you go into it just a deep foreboding read a nice Kremlin read have you seen the footage those Hong Kong protesters okay are cutting down the facial recognition camera trees that's amazing that is what a great protest I mean when you see people on marches and like burning cars and setting businesses on fire it's like what are we really accomplishing here but you gotta give it up to the Chinese you know they're so pragmatic they're getting some good stuff done while they're doing their protests like listen we're not gonna we're not gonna loot Tony's pizza he's a hard-working businessman but that camera recognition tower it's coming down I think it's great fantastic we have heard of a lot of weird things happening with the internet come out of Ukraine you know Ukraine was the one that shut down the heating right yeah in the building because it was money kripacharya and a lot of this is another one of those places where kind of like Nigeria where it's kind of lawless but you have some really talented people who don't have a means to otherwise you use that talent or that intelligence so they do stuff like this employees connecting nuclear plant to the internet so they can mine cryptocurrency yeah it's a nuclear plant tons of free electricity what do you get when you have free electricity you know it makes a lot of sense yeah and you know probably would have never noticed that even that huge draw on electricity in a nuclear plant right you know that's it really is a great place to do it but they were found out they found the hardware and they were trying to hide it in like the nondescript regular office computers which in you know like Ukraine is former Soviet they were probably like the drab you know the brown basic cube PC case so it looks like it's from the 80s what is this 486 have a 28 et il that's the thing it had was it there were four 70s I think right yeah they mentioned what they were it wasn't a six man yeah yeah the RX 470 GPU and they had six in one situation and then they had five from you another one with more of a minute so what they're talking about here is this is they're not charging them with theft even though that's what you think they would do but they're saying because the nuclear power plant is a critical infrastructure and a state building by doing this you've created a security risk and that's what they're going after them for which probably carries a lot more of a penalty yeah now if they just plugged into the electrical grid and ran their own networking wires it would have been fine well mostly they so there was like an administrative building and then there was the plant itself and they were in the administrative building and I don't they ZDNet did not was they weren't able to ascertain if the two networks were connected so that might have might have been you know the case although if you could get into the administrative part of the network as a hacker you would still have access to some important stuff at the very least you could you know fake an email from the administrator that's like go remove the cooling rods right now do it run a patch cable over to the other building and plug it in speaking of the Russians or at least people in the general vicinity of the Russians Moscow came up with they're gonna have an election pretty soon and they came up with a brilliant new system of course we talked last week about Georgia's voting system which Windows XP is bad and it's flawed and we found terrible problems with it but we're gonna go ahead and use it because there's no time not to well this kind of mirrors that although at least they tried right Moscow's blockchain voting system who knew cracked a month before the election French researcher Nets a fifteen thousand dollar prize for finding bugs in Moscow's aetherium based voting system so I wonder how Moscow coerces the votes like those I just have people standing over the people that are voting and is like no you're gonna vote this way well so the way that this is compromised is very suspicious I think because it isn't the method of cryptography it's that they used a shockingly short key a key so short that the researcher beated in twenty minutes with a desktop and it was a French guy he was like listen I don't speak the language that this software is in so I don't know exactly how much I just broke it but here's the the private key and I did this in 20 minutes so what you're saying like was that on purpose or was it just someone who didn't know they were doing yes I mean I could totally see it going both ways I could totally see it being okay we're gonna do blockchain voting cousin Vladimir you know how to do that right and he's like he woke up yeah sure and he went to the internet and he got the most basic tutorial on chain and then they used a very short key for simplicity and he implemented it or it could be how we're gonna change these votes later so make it so we can hack it and he's like I got you no problem anyway fifteen thousand dollar prize nice not bad Denmark what was this we did a story about Denmark last week what was it the royal family I think that was somewhere else we didn't know anyway Denmark is generally pretty liberal and up-to-date and you know like you don't hear all these terrible things about them usually I don't think we've ever had like that we ever had a data leak out of Denmark that might know what it was oh you have the data leak yeah anyway one thing that they do in Denmark is they use phone location just like we do if you remember the Google case where it's like the feds hey Google give us every phone that connected in this cell tower in the last month because we're looking for a murderer well they do that and Denmark but there's a problem flaws in cell phone evidence prompt review of 10,000 verdicts in Denmark so this has to do with the location finding location tracking and just even like time-of-day type stuff it's it's a-you know in these court cases the prosecutor will say is like no we knew it absolute certainty this is what this was but it turns out that it wasn't so certain and they were even associating the wrong phone numbers with certain locations which means that you could be considered a suspect in a crime you were never even there however it seems to be an import problem because the phone company said listen we just gave them access to the data arc our data is correct so we don't think this has anything to do with us this has to do with the police importing the data incorrect which is terrifying he eats so all these cases have to be reviewed and possibly retried can you imagine if the phone company system that somebody has a typo in the account name there's just an errant comma in there and like the police do they like the CSV export and then like every row after that is shifted by one and they don't notice they're like yeah this is fine yeah I could imagine that pretty easily act I think we've experienced that speaking of foreign governments and doing terrible things remember kazakhstan kazakhstan had their root certificate and it wasn't really a brilliant move it wasn't a hack they literally just said hey install this certificate or we'll kill you it doesn't get any more ham-fisted really i guess good news maybe if you're from kazakhstan because you know our glorious tech companies are taking a stand Apple Google and Mozilla block Kazakhstan's HTTP intercepting certificate so Kazakhstan has popped up and said I was just a test but this thoroughly and completely defeated their HTTPS intercepting certificate the bad news though is that this root certificate like the trust for this root certificate is still installed on a lot of pcs in Kazakhstan because ISPs told their customers that had to install this if they want an internet access and so now these companies are detecting those certificates and will not let you browse if it's injected so Kazakhstan turned it off because they called attention to the fact that Kazakhstan was doing this like I don't I think that you know your average internet going citizen in Kazakhstan might not have put two and two together like oh is P is having the install oh it means the gut the state can spy on my stuff what yeah and of course if they just started up block to you they might not understand that out it you know you got this old rural grandma in Kazakhstan she just wants to go and look at Facebook pictures of potatoes and now she can't do that so it's a mess and you got a wonder yeah I don't think this is gonna stop them I think they'll just try to be a little bit more covert yeah in their next attempt this was just a test which is what they said to avoid utter embarrassment I should already be embarrassed we talked about crimes in space but other things went to space this week as well and this one is considerably more exciting I think Russia sends its first humanoid robot Fedor into space it's like a virtual reality augmented reality that the dude in the VR helmet is the robot and it's being held up with rope I just noticed I think that's just for the photo okay it's gonna be weightless they said that uh they strapped him in and the robot pilot said here we go here we go I think I guess I guess that's something like what Yuri Gagarin said that the first Russian that was in orbit first person to orbit also was Russian before the corrections I believe it is Fyodor I know that because of Emelianenko so yeah he's gonna go up into space and we don't know how good he is at doing things in zero-gravity that's what they're trying to do now the cool thing about him he's AI he can learn these tasks once they are performed so let's say you have him Turner screw with a screwdriver a couple of times well then maybe he'll be able to do that on its own we're sending the robot to space because we can't have the cosmonauts drilling holes in the side of the space station anymore that the robot I'll just vent the compartment into space close it and then and he he's guaranteed not to hack your bank account he likes the manual dexterity we also talked about maybe he would be used for deep space missions once he gets good he's gonna get good for a while then we'll just launch him out hold the communication there would be a problem I mean the latency of signals to the moon is substantial so well that's the thing once he learns he can just be on autopilot he doesn't have to have the human driver anymore so I don't know how good he'd be at analyzing what to apply to a given situation it would be a loose screw you know you can figure that out I honestly expected Amazon to do this first like they've got the little wrist things and we joked about that and I sort of expected Amazon to be the first people with humanoid robots that were trained based on like the wrist Pickers data so like the anti strained that way what if you had so you've got those shelfs that drive themselves right and they have quadrant setup on that's how they track everything right so let's say you're getting a book from quadrant 4 how many other Amazon employees at that same moment are getting a book from quadrant 4 what if those other ones were robots and they were simply waiting for a human to hit the same quadrant for the same type of item to mimic their movement we don't know how to do this we gotta wait for a human to do it okay now we know but you still suck time right and money yes way mo we talked about ups having the self-driving truck that was secret and actually somebody that comment was like hey you said where's way mo here in Phoenix because Phoenix is where they do everything they're everywhere and we hate them but thank you random commenter the suffering of the phoenicians might be benefiting the rest of humanity way mo has released a self-driving open data set for free for use by the research community so probably all of this data is coming from Phoenix yeah and now you might be thinking that's a little crazy to give that to your competitors right well there is a license agreement I imagine it's pretty egregious but they're saying that they'll give this to academics but they could also be talked into giving it to a small self-driving startup type of deal hmm because they do want to move the end forward how long until Elon Musk downloads this oh he's definitely got a copy he's starting a university right now just to get a copy of this he flew to American Samoa just because the license couldn't be enforced there ironically he's going to resurrect the University of Phoenix I was not aware of this have you ever heard of this before yes yes this is surprising to me so when we were growing up they had just converted before right before our time all standardized testing was bubble sheets and we did that in grade school but by the time we got to high school it was like no we must write essays everyone must write essays and grading essays takes a long time and I imagine that you want to kill yourself after about 20 of them it's got to be pretty especially for high school students well there's an answer flawed algorithms are grading millions of students essays fooled by gibberish and highly susceptible to human bias automated essay scoring systems are being increasingly adopted the motherboard investigation has found so I think probably about a year ago we did a story on a student has submitted a paper that was just complete gibbering where it salad yeah I remember that now yeah and this is you know they're still using it it's like as fun you know what student that's gonna have the balls to submit a word salad paper there's all kind of a lot now they point out two unique instances of how this works now at least it's funny because they claim that this is somewhat racist right but a wee language is a standard there is a right and wrong so they point out that overwhelmingly black students because of their cultural bias they don't use proper grammar and they'll leave out words and they'll mix things around in sentences and you know I mean we've all heard the the cultural speak of some people and the the algorithm hates it and it marks it down and they're saying that the algorithm cannot identify a Tiffany or even a correct answer all it sees is we is and it just flushes it meanwhile Chinese students who also were not great at the language game were amazing at vocabulary and the algorithm loves it because it's kind of like the word salad you're talking about so and you know pretty consistently they would see that black students would be graded low whereas Chinese students would be graded high which is interesting because the algorithm doesn't know the race of the child yeah it's like it it stumbles across the words it's like the whole this is the correct use of the word cram uhland excellent plus ten points I just literally like that so it's interesting now but to at this point to go back to grading by hand I don't think we could ever do that I know it's just too much work it's too much work and nobody wants to do it so what sort of a hell have we created for ourselves when it's like we just we can't even be bothered to educate the next generation it's too much work no one wants to do this but I will say as much as you know you I can't be racist let's just let's just stop pretending that it is it can't be it is just the fact that we give it rules to follow and it's following them but are we really teaching our children anything if we're not grading them based on actually coming to the right conclusion it's how well they presented it not just that but also it's like is there a thinking problem here or is there like a rationality problem because you could get into a situation where the student is writing something that is completely like the wrong way to think about a problem and the AI would never catch that it would be like oh yeah this is really well reasoned if I okay if you gave me a problem about the curvature of the earth right like I'm estimating some some issue based on the travel of a bullet concerning the curvature of the earth and bullet drop and I as a student I gave you a brilliantly worded perfectly grammatically correct essay about the earth being flat do I get graded well for yes yeah you absolutely would what kind of terrifying world is that unrelated there was one of those flat earther shows or the guy accidentally proved that earth was around and he was like huh that's weird I'll have to look into that we got a great flat earth story coming up later no not in this episode I can't remember which section it's saying actually I think it's in social media oh I thought this was going to nonsense but I guess it's fine you put this in here well is this do we okay yet because we're doing robots I thought robots was gonna go with mom you categorize this one it's I can't think there's a possibility for that one so yeah this is nonsense but if you think about it again it's the AI yeah and the AI simply cannot make moral or critical thinking calls like you were saying it's not racist it just sees violence against something and it's like no this must stop save the robots the YouTube accidentally removed robot battle videos for animal cruelty robot builders across the country cut out in agony this is mostly fixed at this point but there are still reports of videos that are being flagged for animal cruelty and there are still a lot of videos with animal cruelty on YouTube it's crazy but yeah it's like oh look this robot exploded it's like nope animal cruelty who's consuming those videos that really a popular thing to watch animal cruelty you know it's crazy oh wow so but I also wonder what about nature videos like if a pack of lines is pulling down a water buffalo or wildebeest that's gonna get a flag how would it know the difference because if it can't tell the difference between a robot and a small animal and if the robots are just fighting like I've definitely on the level one caste channel we have two cats fighting on there is that gonna get flagged because I assure you there's no cruelty there's what they love it I am sure that all of that is gonna be t monetized including this video for just even mentioning any of this one cats is not that's it for this episode we'll see you tomorrow when we're gonna have business and I can't remember what the other one is I think it'll be I think we're gonna do social on Friday so probably business and security business and security and definitely not Krista see you tomorrow\n"