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In the last column, we explored how artificial intelligence can be used for bird identification. In particular, the app Merlin can identify with remarkable accuracy bird photos and bird sounds. The free app is available from your iPhone or Android app store.

Today, we explore another software product, iNaturalist (iNat for short), that also uses artificial intelligence to train the software to identify organisms. iNaturalist first appeared in 2013 and has grown remarkably both in terms of the sophistication of the software and the number of users.

iNaturalist is a community-focused program. A user either uploads a photo or records a sound and fills in the date and location of the record. You can either type in the name of the organism, if you know it, or ask iNat to take a crack at the identification. Click Submit and you have uploaded your first iNat record.

iNaturalist is a collaborative endeavor. When you first post a photo, your record is tagged as Needs ID. You need another naturalist to either confirm your identification or suggest an alternative if she thinks you have misidentified your organism. If there is no dissenting view, another person agreeing with your identification upgrades your record to Research Grade, a confirmed record.

iNaturalist is used for all types of organisms. iNats 113 million records show over 396,000 species including 15 million bird photos and recordings representing 10,320 species (virtually all the species in the world).

iNaturalist has powerful search tools allowing any user to find records of particular interest. For instance, a quick search reveals that there are over 44,000 records of birds in Maine, covering 392 species with 4,500 naturalists submitting records of Maine birds. The most frequently photographed birds, in decreasing order, are herring gull, common eider, common loon, mallard and bald eagle.

I see that Weston Barker has photographed the most bird species in Maine with a whopping 274 species. Fyn Kind is not far behind with 261 species.

The iNaturalist search engine allows one to focus on particular areas (from the world down to counties), specific dates or date ranges, usernames, and conservation status. Scores of researchers have downloaded iNat data for use in scientific articles.

iNat provides a great way to expand your natural history knowledge. Lets say you are out in the woods photographing birds and see a particular fungus growing on a log, a wasp at a flower and a salamander under a log. Take a photo of each and post it to iNat, where you can suggest a name for each species or rely on other observers with expertise in that group of organisms to nail down the species.

iNat comes in two platforms. One is web-based so point your browser on your computer to iNaturalist.org.

You will be asked to register for a free account. First choose a username. I use herbwilson as my username, but many people prefer to remain anonymous and choose usernames like fm5050 or grizzlymarmot. You then upload your photos, and you are off.

Alternatively, you can download the iNat app for your Android smartphone or iPhone. Its easy to add records using the app. You take a photo and ask iNat to identify the species. The app reads your location and date from your phone, and the record is added to the iNat database.

As with the Merlin app, you should always be skeptical of the identifications. Some species are identified with amazing accuracy, but other groups have lots of similar species, so errors can occur. Those errors are reduced by the review process of fellow iNat users who examine your Needs ID records.

Herb Wilson taught ornithology and other biology courses at Colby College. He welcomes reader comments and questions at [emailprotected]

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The ever-evolving digitization of industry marches on at a relentless pace, and the franchising sector has become an eager participant. Whether you're a franchisor or a franchisee, custom software solutions and platforms have become an integral part of the systems and processes landscape. From franchisors who use custom CRM platforms to optimize relationship management, to the franchisee with access to automated reporting and invoicing tools, the capabilities offered by software service providers are making our lives easier and more efficient.

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Entrepreneur has announced its annual Top Franchise Supplier rankings, a multi-faceted directory which includes the best of the best service providers in the industry. If you're a franchisor looking for enhanced capabilities for your systems, processes, and network architecture, a great place to start is this Top-10 list of software solutions and tech providers who've each earned a well-deserved spot on our 2022 list. Here's what each of these ranked companies had to say about themselves:

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading growth platform. Since 2006, HubSpot has been on a mission to make the world more inbound. Today, over 60,500 total customers in more than 100 countries use HubSpot's award-winning software, services, and support to transform the way they attract, engage, and delight customers. Comprised of Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, and a powerful free CRM, HubSpot gives companies the tools they need to grow better.

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FranchiseSoft is an all-in-one Saas-based software for franchisor and franchisee management. It features a robust CRM that can be used for franchise development, and franchisees can use it for managing relationships with their customers. The marketing module allows for marketing automation with emails and SMS. The franchisee management and support module ensure all communication and tasks are logged with your franchisees. In addition, the finance module ensures you can automate your financial reporting and invoicing. Other modules include a digital library and a field scheduling module with mobile app and much more. Contact us for a demo today! According to FranchiseSoft CEO and co-founder Jam Hashmi, their focus makes them a top industry supplier. "Our focus on high touch and high service is one of the key differentiators for FranchiseSoft," Hashmi says. "Our team takes a very personalized approach to training and onboarding our clients that makes it easy for them to learn and adopt the software into their franchise network."

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BE'ER SHEVA, Israel, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Rezilion,an automated software vulnerability management platform,announced today that it has been named a vendor providing Innovative tools for SBOM management in Gartner's new report, titled Emerging Tech: A Software Bill of Materials Is Critical to Software Supply Chain Management.

The report highlights the growing importance of SBOMs in managing software supply chain risk at a time when the software industry increases its reliance on third-party and/or open-source code. Unlike internally-developed components, which adhere to rigorous security and quality guidelines, open-source software (OSS) can come from many sources and is far more prone to risk. These security and compliance risks are exacerbated by a lack of visibility and understanding of open-source dependencies within the software supply chain. SBOMs answer that challenge by providing a much-needed view into an organization's inventory of software, as well as the dependencies, licenses, compliance posture and provenance information.

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"Gartner's analysis and outlook on SBOMs arrives at a critical time," said Liran Tancman, Co-Founder and CEO of Rezilion. "As more organizations embrace SBOMs as a vital component of their software security tooling, we're thrilled to be among the named providers. Our Dynamic SBOM gives organizations the ability to know how their dependencies are being exploited, which solidifies how well-aligned our current capabilities are with the evolution of SBOMs in the future."

Rezilion was named a vendor in the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) category in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Open Source Software, 2022, and the SBOM and ASOC categories in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Application Security, 2022, in July of this year.

Rezilion's Dynamic SBOM is available now across CI and on-prem and cloud environments. A basic, free-of-charge version is available for use in CI through Rezilion's website. Get started today at http://www.rezilion.com/get-started.

Rezilion's platform automatically secures the software you deliver to customers. Rezilion's continuous runtime analysis detects vulnerable software components on any layer of the software stack and determines their exploitability, filtering out up to 95% of identified vulnerabilities. Rezilion then automatically mitigates exploitable vulnerabilities across the SDLC, reducing vulnerability backlogs and remediation timelines from months to hours, while giving DevOps teams time back to build.

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Proposed EU rules could limit the type of research that produces cutting-edge AI tools like GPT-3, experts warn in a new study.

The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published a piece decrying the blocs regulation of open source AI, arguing it would create legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development. Under the EUs draft AI Act, open source developers would have to adhere to guidelines for risk management, data governance, technical documentation and transparency, as well as standards of accuracy and cybersecurity.

If a company were to deploy an open source AI system that led to some disastrous outcome, the author asserts, its not inconceivable the company could attempt to deflect responsibility by suing the open source developers on which they built their product.

This could further concentrate power over the future of AI in large technology companies and prevent research that is critical to the publics understanding of AI, Alex Engler, the analyst at Brookings who published the piece, wrote. In the end, the [E.U.s] attempt to regulate open-source could create a convoluted set of requirements that endangers open-source AI contributors, likely without improving use of general-purpose AI.

In 2021, the European Commission the EUs politically independent executive arm released the text of the AI Act, which aims to promote trustworthy AI deployment in the EU as they solicit input from industry ahead of a vote this fall, EU. institutions are seeking to make amendments to the regulations that attempt to balance innovation with accountability. But according to some experts, the AI Act as written would impose onerous requirements on open efforts to develop AI systems.

The legislation contains carve-outs for some categories of open source AI, like those exclusively used for research and with controls to prevent misuse. But as Engler notes, itd be difficult if not impossible to prevent these projects from making their way into commercial systems, where they could be abused by malicious actors.

In a recent example, Stable Diffusion, an open source AI system that generates images from text prompts, was released with a license prohibiting certain types of content. But it quickly found an audience within communities that use such AI tools to create pornographic deepfakes of celebrities.

Oren Etzioni, the founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, agrees that the current draft of the AI Act is problematic. In an email interview with TechCrunch, Etzioni said that the burdens introduced by the rules could have a chilling effect on areas like the development of open text-generating systems, which he believes are enabling developers to catch up to Big Tech companies like Google and Meta.

The road to regulation hell is paved with the EUs good intentions, Etzioni said. Open source developers should not be subject to the same burden as those developing commercial software. It should always be the case that free software can be provided as is consider the case of a single student developing an AI capability; they cannot afford to comply with EU regulations and may be forced not to distribute their software, thereby having a chilling effect on academic progress and on reproducibility of scientific results.

Instead of seeking to regulate AI technologies broadly, EU regulators should focus on specific applications of AI, Etzioni argues. There is too much uncertainty and rapid change in AI for the slow-moving regulatory process to be effective, he said. Instead, AI applications such as autonomous vehicles, bots, or toys should be the subject of regulation.

Not every practitioner believes the AI Act is in need of further amending. Mike Cook, an AI researcher whos a part of the Knives and Paintbrushes collective, thinks its perfectly fine to regulate open source AI a little more heavily than needed. Setting any sort of standard can be a way to show leadership globally, he posits hopefully encouraging others to follow suit.

The fearmongering about stifling innovation comes mostly from people who want to do away with all regulation and have free rein, and thats generally not a view I put much stock into, Cook said. I think its okay to legislate in the name of a better world, rather than worrying about whether your neighbour is going to regulate less than you and somehow profit from it.

To wit, as my colleague Natasha Lomas has previously noted, the EUs risk-based approach lists several prohibited uses of AI (e.g. China-style state social credit scoring) while imposing restrictions on AI systems considered to be high-risk like those having to do with law enforcement. If the regulations were to target product types as opposed to product categories (as Etzioni argues they should), it might require thousands of regulations one for each product type leading to conflict and even greater regulatory uncertainty.

An analysis written by Lilian Edwards, a law professor at the Newcastle School and a part-time legal advisor at the Ada Lovelace Institute, questions whether the providers of systems like open source large language models (e.g. GPT-3) might be liable after all under the AI Act. Language in the legislation puts the onus on downstream deployers to manage an AI systems uses and impacts, she says not necessarily the initial developer.

[T]he way downstream deployers use [AI] and adapt it may be as significant as how it is originally built, she writes. The AI Act takes some notice of this but not nearly enough, and therefore fails to appropriately regulate the many actors who get involved in various ways downstream in the AI supply chain.

At AI startup Hugging Face, CEO Clment Delangue, counsel Carlos Muoz Ferrandis and policy expert Irene Solaiman say that they welcome regulations to protect consumer safeguards, but that the AI Act as proposed is too vague. For instance, they say, its unclear whether the legislation would apply to the pre-trained machine learning models at the heart of AI-powered software or only to the software itself.

This lack of clarity, coupled with the non-observance of ongoing community governance initiatives such as open and responsible AI licenses, might hinder upstream innovation at the very top of the AI value chain, which is a big focus for us at Hugging Face, Delangue, Ferrandis and Solaiman said in a joint statement. From a competition and innovation perspective, if you already place overly heavy burdens on openly released features at the top of the AI innovation stream you risk hindering incremental innovation, product differentiation and dynamic competition, this latter being core in emergent technology markets such as AI-related ones The regulation should take into account the innovation dynamics of AI markets and thus clearly identify and protect core sources of innovation in these markets.

As for Hugging Face, the company advocates for improved AI governance tools regardless of the AI Acts final language, like responsible AI licenses and model cards that include information like the intended use of an AI system and how it works. Delangue, Ferrandis and Solaiman point out that responsible licensing is starting to become a common practice for major AI releases, such as Metas OPT-175 language model.

Open innovation and responsible innovation in the AI realm are not mutually exclusive ends, but rather complementary ones, Delangue, Ferrandis and Solaiman said. The intersection between both should be a core target for ongoing regulatory efforts, as it is being right now for the AI community.

That well may be achievable. Given the many moving parts involved in EU rulemaking (not to mention the stakeholders affected by it), itll likely be years before AI regulation in the bloc starts to take shape.

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