Thursday, October 30, 2014

Russian President Putin Admits Using Supercomputer Software To Make Decisions Such As Ukraine  (SAT PAR News Oct 30, 2014) Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, the President of Russia has admitted to using a artificial Intelligence policy decision tool called "Red Star". The software runs on a supercomputer created by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in cooperation with the company Ruselectronics. President Putin does not regret some actions with Ukraine but is concerned about moving equipment and troops near the border and eventually moving some assets into the Ukraine territory. He spoke on Russian television Channel One, "Moving Russian troops to such a volatile area was not helpful, but Red Star is usually correct in the end. In this case I am not so sure." Due to President Putin's misgivings on the approaches to Ukraine, he has ordered a team of programmers to analyze the Red Star application to understand why it ignored so many risks in the analysis. Western intelligence sources were caught off guard, with both the announced of software making the Ukraine decision, and even the existence of such software. "We had no clue!, We are scrambling to make sense of this." said one frustrated US intelligence officer that was anonymously quoted due to the sensitivity of the issue.

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Monday, October 6, 2014

White House Admits Using Apology Software For Vice President Biden  (SAT PAR News Oct 06, 2014) The latest in a seemingly unstoppable flood of gaffs from Vice president Joesph R. Biden involving a comment about Turkey admitting blame for letting too many Al Qaeda fighters through their border has revealed the method of responding to the embarrassing public misspoken statements. Most of the gaff come from the Vice president, however the President himself and many agency heads are not immune of course. What has fascinated technophiles and polticos is the admission by the White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough that they use artificial intelligence software to form responses. McDonough refuses to say where they got the software but he does admit that due to the frequency of the Vice President Biden's off the cuff remarks, they needed an extra hand to assist in forming responses in sensitive situation. McDonouugh was not apologetic, "Frankly we get more benefit from the Vice President when he is relaxed and speaking freely, we connect to the common voter that way. Yes, we have to make course corrections when a volley of his words hits a bad note, but we think it is worth it for the value we get." The software reportedly can frame a response when the target audience is indicated and the gaff is identified. The program requires a huge database of cultural and political sensitivities of most active groups and countries from around the world and in the United States.

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