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 I have been reading a good picture book, 'How the brain works', published by Dorling Kindersley. I realised it will be a long time before Artificial Intelligence (AI) replicates our amazing brains with just numbers. Our brains have evolved over millions of years and are specifically adapted for humans. Science does not fully understand how our brains work. Our feeling of consciousness is partly an illusion. I suppose AI will be a different kind of intelligence to ours. I found this picture book in my local library.

 I read a good book on AI: ' Smart until it's dumb ' by Emmanuel Maggiori. The author shares his stories of working on AI in business and academic research. The author says the power of AI is often exaggerated and the author predicts a mild AI winter. The author's biggest fear is that AI will be used for safety-critical tasks like self-driving cars where machine-learning can make silly mistakes. I borrowed the book from a public library  There are more tips at:  bbingo.xyz/techtips/

 I have been reading 'Cryptocurrencies all-in-one for dummies' by Kiana Danial et all. The book put me off buying some bitcoin. It seems so difficult to keep your 'private keys' secure. I learnt a lot about keeping online investing secure. There are more tips at:  bbingo.xyz/t

 A good book suggests writing passwords down in a notebook kept at home. But the book says it is better to use a 'password manager'. The idea is to avoid reusing simple passwords that are easy to remember. The books suggests using a simple transformation such as changing lowercase to uppercase and vice-versa. The book suggests keeping the notebook in a locked drawer. I write down my passwords on a piece of card I keep in my bag which I take with me everywhere. I have left it by mistake in the library and nothing happened. The book is 'Confident Cyber Security' by Jessica Barker. There are more tips at:  bbingo.xyz/t

 I read a good book about Cambridge Analytica using data from Facebook to target ads at specific groups of people and help elect Donald Trump and promote Brexit . The book is 'Mindf*ck' by Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower. You probably would not use Facebook after reading this book, at least with your real name. There are more tips at:  bbingo.xyz/t

 I read a good book about Artificial Intelligence (AI) going wrong. The book is 'You look like a thing and I love you' by Janelle Shane. The book made me realise you can try out 'machine learning' for yourself these days. I am going to put my list of names into an AI and see what new names the AI comes up with. There are more tips at:  bbingo.xyz/t

 I read a thought-provoking book: 'Surveillance Valley' by Yasha Levine. The author says the internet started with the ARPANET, used by the U.S. military. The author says this was used for counter-insurgency work in Vietnam. The author says ARPANET was used to share data on protests in the U.S. The author says Edward Snowden leaked details of the PRISM project showing that companies such as Google and Facebook worked with the U.S. government to give the government direct access to all the very detailed information these companies hold about you.  The author says the Tor project is mainly funded by the U.S. government to encourage regime change in hostile countries. The author says Tor has holes in it. The author says the U.S. government can get around Tor and Signal by hacking your mobile phone. The author says Tor and Signal give people a false sense of security and so prevents the regulation of Google and Facebook's data collection. I got the book from my local library Th...