The modern information society is characterized by the fact that the entire big world is shrouded in an electronic web and each person is attached to it, as in a huge matrix, almost from the cradle. It is no longer surprising how cleverly modern kids handle mobile phones and computers, turn on tablets and launch cartoons from the Internet, talk to grandparents on Skype, draw not with crayons and pencils on paper, but with an electronic pen on an interactive whiteboard. For them, it is a natural digital habitat from birth. Whether it will still be, as the famous prima donna sang, oh-oh-oh!
Indeed, another sensation in the world of high technologies about the creation of artificial intelligence thundered in June 2014 in the Russian city of St. Petersburg. Russian programmers Vladimir Veselov and Evgeny Demchenko have developed and launched a self-developing computer program, which for the first time in world history passed the most difficult test of the greatest mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing. This test was proposed by an English scientist back in 1950 to assess the artificial intelligence of a computer in order to prove the ability of an electronic machine to self-develop and think independently. It is Alan Mathison Turing who is considered the first hacker to break the code of the German encryption machine Enigma.
And what do such words of the new digital reality as artificial intelligence and hacker mean? Let's deal with these concepts of modernity. Artificial intelligence (abbreviation AI, comes from the English words Artificial intelligence, AI) means the science and technology of creating intelligent machines, systems and intelligent computer programs that have the ability to perform creative functions usually unique to humans. A hacker is a "computer cracker", a programmer who maliciously bypasses computer security systems in order to unauthorized entry into someone else's information environment. Hacker attacks are very dangerous, they can not only cause huge material damage to entire companies, but also lead to the death of people, if, for example, they are aimed at hospitals with an electronic patient life support system.
The first piece of advice to the average web user is to remember that, as a rule, hacker programs are attached to various banners, links to websites, advertising sites, links to accounts in social networks. As soon as you make an erroneous or thoughtless mouse click on these virtual objects and that's it, you let viruses in with your own hands, so even antivirus programs won't help.
Second tip, be sure to pay your precious attention to the URL of the banking site where you are going to execute any payment order. Hackers replace real sites with their fake duplicate sites in order to steal your usernames and passwords. As a result of hacker hacking, your accounts can instantly be reset to zero. And as the sad statistics show, it is almost impossible to return anything, let alone unravel the hacker's tangle of dummy IP computers around the world. Such is it a modern electronic matrix, as in the digital jungle, the smartest, attentive and careful user of a computer network survives.
Another invention that makes life easier for hackers is the new wireless technology wi-fi, introduced in 1991 and named after a brand by a large company. If wi-fi is always on on your mobile device, then you are an open book for all network intruders. Whole companies are secretly developing network espionage in pursuit of your personal data, passwords, virtual wallets, bank accounts. You can just walk in the park where free wi-fi is distributed, or sit in a cafe with free access to the world wide web, take a train with a free wireless Internet zone, or download materials from a library with open passwordless wi-fi and everything, your data on a platter of network crackers. There are specialized programswhich automatically hack wi-fi networks and remotely download all the information about your life on the Internet. Therefore, when buying a router for wireless operation, pay attention to whether it supports the WPA2 data encryption type, while the most complex and reliable one today.
All users of electronic gadgets with access to a computer network must remember, unfortunately, about world wiretapping. Thanks to the American technical specialist Edward Snowden, it became known to the whole world that more than three hundred well-known politicians and businessmen of the world level were under the cover of the NSA of the US Department of Defense's radio and electronic intelligence unit. Almost every user connected to the global electronic matrix is being monitored by special services. For example, the Prism program launched by the US intelligence services regularly monitors our conversations and messages on the network.
In today's digital world, software control developers and gadget manufacturers rule. For example, the computer in modern cars already independently controls the parking, the on-board computer of the airliner controls the flight, the new trend of the digital age, the smart home is controlled automatically and remotely. However, the strongest politicians and businessmen of this world do not use cars with electronic filling and smartphones with new software due to the fact that their electronics can be controlled remotely over a long distance via satellite dishes, and this is very dangerous, since any accidental or deliberate failure signal will lead to disaster.
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The main goal of all modern IT developers is to replace a person with an electronic machine that does not know illness and fatigue. In addition, when used in production, it is much cheaper and a minimum of errors during monotonous work, in contrast to human resources. For example, in the laboratory of neurocomputer interfaces at the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, they developed a computer brain that understands human thoughts. The computer reads the electrical impulses sent by the neurons in the brain and decodes them. Today, there are already cyborg people with a camera built into the brain, or with electronic limb prostheses, that is, smart gadgets are already used as a direct part of them.
Another such concept of modernity has appeared as a robot (derived from the Czech word robota - forced labor), which is an automated device that operates according to a pre-laid down algorithm and receives information about the outside world from special sensors. Robots that independently carry out production and other operations have firmly entered our life, but not simple ones, but with artificial intelligence. Should I be afraid of this? No, of course, we are all children of progress and are not surprised for a long time that the speed of a car is many times higher than the speed of the best sprinter, that airplanes, unlike humans, can fly, that cranes lift loads exceeding the weight that an Olympic heavyweight champion can lift. athletics. There are many such examples, the main thing is to direct the artificial intelligence not to destruction,but for creative work to help people, like other miracles of technology.
