Bots Have Feelings Too

“Charming and cute as they are, the capabilities and intelligence of ‘emotional’ robots are still very limited. They <strong>don’t have feelings</strong> and are simply programmed to detect emotions and respond accordingly. But things are set to change very rapidly. …To feel emotion, you need to be conscious and self-aware.” (Hewlett, 2019)

Current Event 2

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/tech/axie-infinity-hack-binance-a16z-investment/index.html

Regarding the Axie Infinity Hack, it’s astonishing to me not only that 625 million dollars were stolen, not only that Axie Ininity’s security was lax enough to for such an enormous breach to occur, but that it took them more than a week to realize someone had pulled more than half a billion dollars out of their pocket. I feel like I reference The Cuckoo’s Egg a lot, but they noticed a security breach from losing just a couple cents. How do you not realize someone pulled a bank’s worth of money out of your bank account? It makes me wonder if there’s security out there not just for protecting your assets, but also for monitoring suspicious activity on your machines. In my experience, a security camera is just as good a deterrent as a locked door, if not better.


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2 responses to “Current Event 2”

  1. There are security measures that monitor financial and digital assets, both manual and systematic. The downfall of this company was the failure to implement those measures correctly into their company’s systems.

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    Connor O’Leary

    With the massive bubble of NFT’s its not surprising to me that a game built around them would lose track of 625 million but what’s crazy to me is that they made it back.

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