This video starts with the simple question: would you consider a Humanoid as legal person sometime in the near future?

Humanoids can be shortly defined as a robot that resembles human beings. Currently they have been developed and are getting close to a real person. And soon enough, you will not be able to see the difference. Voices are getting more natural, skin is close to ours. Outside is ok. However, the inside, the embedded software, the electronic soul if you will, is going to take few more years to reach our intelectual and ethical capabilities. 

Thinking ahead of time, by 2030 Artificial Intelligence researchers are predicting that those humanoids will be fully autonomous and able to take decisions for themselves and for those around him (like helping somebody to cross a street). 

Once that level of accomplishment is achieved, some regulations and laws are needed to draw lines of responsibilities and obligations to those manufaturers and also the buyers. Those machines will need to be controlled, monitored and regulated in order to be among us. Perhaps all of them should carry a serial number as their ID protocol and be owned like a house, with proper registration of property. 

Now, what about legal personality, like those ascribed to corporations, entities, rivers and natural persons, shall we grant them this legal status ? Shall humanoids be liable for errors, able to sue, be sued and be responsible for their own acts?

I have no idea, lucky me that I have some assistance from Mauricio Kimura, Legal Researcher at the University of Waikato, Who will be explaining to me what’s behind this polemic and complex subject. 

A recent study states that COVID-19 has sped up digital transformation by approx. 5.3 years. By working remotely, organizations are reimagining the business landscape and thinking in new ways of engaging with customers. Leveraging a digital consumer experience drives business innovation and getting insights from data is the key to reach that. The well-known data exponential growth and increasing computing power of IoT/Edge devices have caused unprecedented volumes of data coming from several locations and formats, which has a serious impact on the management effort and on the main goal of getting insights from it. Want to unleash the potential of your data to drive business innovation? Damon Wynne, Storage Technical Sales Leader for IBM A/NZ and Abilio Oliveira, IBM Thought Leader are in a virtual "pub" having a very causal chat about it.

Many organizations face challenges on trying to manage an unstructured data flooding, such as:

-      Pinpointing and activating relevant data for large-scale analytics.

-      Lacking the fine-grained visibility that is needed to map data to business priorities.

-      Removing redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data.

-      Identifying and classifying sensitive data.

To address this situation and to speed up the "puzzle tale" dilemma so we can create sense of the data quickly and prepare it to an AI application, IBM developed a solution called IBM Spectrum Discover which is a modern metadata management software that provides data insight for petabyte-scale file and object storage, storage on premises, and in the cloud. This software enables organizations to make better business decisions and gain and maintain a competitive advantage.

Imagine boosting your Artificial Intelligence & Data Science productivity just like the “puzzle tale” by:

-      Unifying data Silos, wherever they the data resides, on-premises or off

-      Simplify and accelerate data curation

-      Improve the quality of your data by eliminating redundant, obsolete and trivial data

-      Enhance the value of your data with semantic metadata

IBM Spectrum Discover provides a rich metadata layer that enables storage administrators, data stewards, and data scientists to efficiently manage, classify, and gain insights from massive amounts of unstructured data. It also improves storage economics, helps mitigate risk, and accelerates large-scale analytics to create competitive advantage and speed-critical research.

Kia ora everyone, while I am finishing the new video of my Behind the Cloud Technical video series, I would like to share 2 stories about technology in a way but not related to my role at IBM...so I am sorry about it, feel free to ignore it, but if you are a parent and have kids using mobile devices, I would strongly encourage you to stay with me up to the end as you might find somehow useful.
There is no doubt technology has positive impacts in early ages, if well managed, but the overuse of these devices (as anything in life) could be slowing down or even blocking our abilities to carry out any task from the simplest to the most complex. 

But some mechanisms of how we learn, remember, problem-solve, and pay attention, can be impacted by some groups of applications inside mobile phones.

Games that can cause positive impact in our problem solving capabilities could cause lack of  perception of things near you, so what to do? I will try to start explaining a little bit of what I am doing in my PhD research project from this regards.

P–TECH is a public-education model that provides high school students from underserved backgrounds with the academic, technical, and professional skills and credentials they need for competitive STEM jobs.

This program was founded to serve young people who have historically and consistently been denied access to equitable education and economic opportunity.  P-TECH reimagines what school can be by combining education and workforce development. We are committed to empowering all young people, regardless of their backgrounds, with relevant skills and credentials that are essential to enabling them to reach their full potential.  Our mission is to break the cycle of poverty in families and communities, and to create thriving, diverse and inclusive economies.

In this episode, I am talking to Monique Simpson, P-TECH New Zealand industry manager, a very special episode for sure.

To know more about P-TECH:

https://www.ibm.org/initiatives/p-tech

What is augmented intelligence? Where does it lives? What does it eat?  No, it is not a David Attenborough special, today I had a a cool chat with IBM Data, AI & Automation Lead NZ, Swapneil Diwaan. 
How AI will affect jobs, how augmented intelligence boost by IBM AI solutions can help your business, and finally how to get start  on the journey to AI. This and much more more in this episode of #abiliotalks

Digital transformation efforts, while not new, have taken on a new urgency and higher priority in the wake of the pandemic. Organizations are rushing to adjust their business models to offer customers the digital experiences they need while also enabling a global and disparate workforce. As organizations are shifting their projects and re-prioritizing their digital efforts, it’s important that they also rethink their approach to security. Users, data and resources are now spread across the globe making it difficult to connect them quickly and securely. 

Traditional security offered a clear perimeter to assess and enforce the trustworthiness of these connections, but the evolution of business has proven that ‘the perimeter’ is prone to weaknesses, so a new approach is needed.

Recent studies show that in average, organizations can take up to 272 days in Australia and New Zealand to identify that they have been compromised, and on average a single incident can cause a financial loss of almost 4 million dollars per incident and many months to clean up afterwards.

IBM Zero trust framework has emerged as an essential approach for businesses to take control over their security strategy. Zero trust ensures all data and resources are inaccessible by default and can only be accessed on a limited basis and under the right circumstances

To crack this code and share with me how to put IBM Zero Trust framework into practice, in this episode of #abiliotalks I will be talking with John Martin, Senior Security Architect & Security Practice Leader at IBM ANZ.

From Milking cows to IT director of a multinational, Andre Sampaio definitively has some very interesting experiences in his life to share. Imagine in less than 2 decades, for five times he was divided between New Zealand in Brazil. Experiences on how to modernize an IT department, how to become a trusted advisor for his team, how to make the right decisions in the appropriate time, how to be a heavy metal singer and be as calm as he is. A great IT professional, a fantastic human being. This and much more in this episode

Only in 2020, Information technologies incidents caused a direct financial loss of approximately $2 billion dollars in a global scale. Malware / Ransonware are one of the top causes, and as you know, the majority of the incidents are not reported, so this number is actually way bigger. So, what can you do to protect yourself against this threat? To address this huge problem, the solution is not easy, but IBM knows what to do, Eric Herzog, vice president of Storage Channels organization at IBM explains how to make your Infrastructure secure against this threat in this very special episode.

Paulo Almeida  has been doing things like developing his own Operating System, organizing Auckland Algorithms and Data Structures meetup group, he likes to write articles explaining in an easy language difficult hardware engineering concepts, he does courses when he’s bored. A Complete nerd, although he doesn’t like video games, but he likes surfing and skating.

You can check Paulo's article on his blog:
https://deepdives.medium.com/

This and much more in the new episode of #abiliotalks, season 2.