What We Just Learned about Grizzly Steppe

The Obama administration announced yesterday that sanctions were being placed on Russia in retaliation for the 2016 Election Hacking scandal. Shortly after that announcement, a Joint Analysis Report (JAR) was released providing a description of the nature of the Cyber attacks. It's still not clear if this report (released to scribd.com) is the complete intelligence report that the President had requested some weeks back or one perhaps one of...

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A Framework for Evolutionary Artificial Thought

This past week, I was making the long commute between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio and trying to amuse myself the best I could – in this case by listening to a college course on the fundamentals of Particle Physics. One might not think there is an obvious connection between Particle Physics and Artificial Intelligence, but it turns out there is at least one. The connection, in my mind at least, was the framework used in Physics to help organize the...

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How Artificial Thought Can Save AI

Over the past several decades, I’ve seen an endless stream of predictions and articles in regards to Artificial Intelligence and it occurred to me recently that we may have missed an important point relating to this topic. One reason the expectations and the reality of AI have diverged so greatly may be due entirely to our obsession with the notion that in creating it we ought to be somehow be mimicking ourselves through some sort of human intelligence...

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The 5 Principles of Cyber Warfare

This week we got a partial glimpse into the types of action that the United States might consider to be acts of Cyber Warfare. I had written about this topic 2 weeks ago in regards to Voting Integrity in the face of Russian cyber attacks, but the story has escalated since then – culminating this week in direct accusations against the Russian government. The CIA and even President Obama have directly implicated Putin as being personally...

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Technology & The 2016 Election part 5: Voter Beware

This is the last in my series of posts on how Technology influenced the 2016 election. As I write this, new articles keep streaming out in relation to Fake News, Russian hacking and transition appointments. While we may have hoped that after the election had finished, things might cool down – it seems that presumption may have been premature. In the previous posts, I discussed specific technologies, trends and tactics but what does it all mean for...

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