Texas-based Securonix acquires ThreatQuotient, which helps companies analyze threat intelligence more efficiently; ThreatQuotient had raised about $170M (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/11/securonix-…
This is of historical interest on so many levels.
When the notion of AI first appeared, chess was considered the epitome of intelligence (before that it was calculating)—which, of course, it isn’t. Now AI is all about pattern recognition, which certainly covers more of what we associate with human intelligence, but go figure, it’s not *just* pattern recognition either. ⇢
⇢ The notion of “intelligence” in AI has always been very narrow, and I’d argue that even that of “general intelligence” remains a very narrow one, and like previous ideas of intelligence, it’s largely socially constructed, i.e., closely tied to a particular set of skills valued by a particular group of people.
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⇢ The notion of “intelligence” in AI has always been very narrow, and I’d argue that even that of “general intelligence” remains a very narrow one, and like previous ideas of intelligence, it’s largely socially constructed, i.e., closely tied to a particular set of skills valued by a particular group of people.
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New: Israeli Strikes on Iran Much Larger Than Initially Thought, Stunning Details Emerging (Bonchie/RedState)
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/06/12/new-israeli-strikes-much-larger-than-initially-thought-stunning-details-emerging-n2190425
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p165#a250612p165
Interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features, demoed in 2024, with the "V1 Siri architecture" and work on a V2 model (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
https://www.techra…
This is of historical interest on so many levels.
When the notion of AI first appeared, chess was considered the epitome of intelligence (before that it was calculating)—which, of course, it isn’t. Now AI is all about pattern recognition, which certainly covers more of what we associate with human intelligence, but go figure, it’s not *just* pattern recognition either. ⇢
This is of historical interest on so many levels.
When the notion of AI first appeared, chess was considered the epitome of intelligence (before that it was calculating)—which, of course, it isn’t. Now AI is all about pattern recognition, which certainly covers more of what we associate with human intelligence, but go figure, it’s not *just* pattern recognition either. ⇢