Claudia Plattner is to head BSI
The Federal Office for Information Security is getting a new President in Claudia Plattner. She comes from the European Central Bank, where she has been responsible for information systems since mid-2021. Before that, the mathematician worked as Chief Information Officer at DB Systel, the IT subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn. Plattner faces a difficult task, not least as she takes over as BSI leader in the midst of a war in Europe involving Russia, a potent cyber-weakness.
Bard: Google’s answer to ChatGPT
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has announced Google’s response to ChatGPT. The experimental conversational AI Bard is based on the chatbot LaMDA and should also find its way into the search engine. LaMDA caused a sensation last summer because one of Google’s software engineers was convinced that LaMDA had developed consciousness. Bard is said to rely on information from the Internet to provide “fresh, quality answers,” Pichai explains. He suggests that Bard can also provide answers to current developments. ChatGPT’s “knowledge”, on the other hand, ends at the end of 2021 because the AI was only trained with data up to that point. You can’t try Bard yet. Google plans to open up its chatbot to “trusted testers” first, before opening Bard to the public in the coming weeks.
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Baidu releases Ernie Bot
The Chinese giant Baidu also wants to improve its search engine using artificial intelligence. A ChatGPT competitor named Ernie Bot is scheduled to move in in March. The chatbot should be integrated into the search in such a way that you can have a conversation with it directly. Baidu dominates the search engine market in China, but is also active in numerous other sectors. The tech giant is considered to be a leader in the development of autonomous driving.
Nuclear missile cryptocurrency
Cybercriminals working for North Korea stole more cryptocurrency in the past year than in any previous year. At least that is the conclusion of a report for the United Nations. Accordingly, Bitcoin & Co. with a total value of around 630 million US dollars were stolen for the regime in Pyongyang. According to another report, it was even more than a billion US dollars in total. According to South Korea’s intelligence agency, the North Korean regime’s ability to carry out such thefts is almost unmatched in the world and is a response to economic sanctions against the country’s nuclear program. The stolen crypto money would be used to finance the development and construction of weapons.
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