Communications of the ACM
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December 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenAI ChatGPT Imitating Academic Work
Using and detecting.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Raises Alarm Over Student Cheating
By Financial Times, December 27, 2022
There is widespread concern that students will use OpenAI's ChatGPT to cheat on assignments.
OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial…From The Eponymous Pickle
On Speculative Execution
Out of order, and dynamic.
What Is Speculative Execution?
By Joel Hruska on June 10, 2022
With a new Apple security flaw in the news, it’s a good time to revisit the question of what speculative execution is and how it works.Speculative…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The joke Turing test
A funny thing happened on the way to the computer by Peter W. McOwan, Queen Mary University of London (from the archive) Laugh and the world laughs with you they say, but what if you’re a computer. Can a computer have a ‘sense…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McD's Automation Plans
More on McD's automation efforts, apparently the automation of everything but the food preparation. Following closely.
McD’s gets decidedly mixed reactions to its robot servers in RetailWire
Dec 27, 2022 by Tom Ryan
McDonald…From The Eponymous Pickle
Donald Knuth's Christmas 2022 Lecture
A person I fondly connected with via this books back in the 70s, always interesting: Donald Knuth's 2022 'Christmas Tree' Lecture Is About Trees ... '
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Research Looks Back at Progress in AI
Microsoft talks about some of its efforts.
Research @ Microsoft 2022: A look back at a year of accelerating progress in AI
Published December 19, 2022
2022 has seen remarkable progress in foundational technologies that have helped…From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan Prepares for Defense
In the near past you never heard much about Japan's defense forces (SDF), investment was relatively low, but with potential nearby threats, that is changing, RAND writes about it in come detail.
Japan's Upcoming DefenseRAND…From The Eponymous Pickle
Merlin AI Launches First ChatGPT iOS and Android Mobile App
MerlinAI and IOS For a ChatGPT
Merlin AI Launches First ChatGPT iOS and Android Mobile App
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on December 23, 2022
Mobile app developer Dogtown Media has introduced what it claims is the first iOS and Android app…From The Eponymous Pickle
On a Trip to Infinity
Math in Netflix
"The second appearance of…From The Eponymous Pickle
2D Material May Enable Ultra-Sharp Cellphone Photos in Low Light
Most interesting, worked on a project that needed to get low light images for input to modeling.
2D Material May Enable Ultra-Sharp Cellphone Photos in Low Light
Pennsylvania State University News, Jamie Oberdick, December 9,…From Schneier on Security
Arresting IT Administrators
This is one way of ensuring that IT keeps up with patches:
Albanian prosecutors on Wednesday asked for the house arrest of five public employees they blame for not protecting the country from a cyberattack by alleged Iranian…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The Chinese room: zombie attack!
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (From the cs4fn archive) Iain M Banks’s science fiction novels about ‘The Culture’ imagine a universe inhabited (and largely run) by ‘Minds’. These are incredibly intelligent machines…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Ideas in Tech
Nicely done, Big Ideas in Tech for 2023: An a16z Omnibus by Andreessen
AI, machine & deep learning bio + health consumer crypto & web3 ecommerce enterprise & SaaS fintech gaming, social, and new media mobile (&Table…From The Eponymous Pickle
Netflix Password Sharing may Be illegal, says UK government: BBC
In the BBC on password sharing. Illegal vs allowed? Copyright law involved? Intellectual Property.
Netflix password sharing may be illegal, says UK government By Tom Gerken, BBC Technology reporter Sharing passwordsIt…From The Eponymous Pickle
Scientists Use Quantum Computing to Create Glass that Cuts the Need for AC by a Third
Model testing.
Scientists Use Quantum Computing to Create Glass that Cuts the Need for AC by a Third
By Popular Science, December 1, 2022
A sample of the glass coating, which you can see through.
Machine learning and quantumTwo…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading Existential Physics
Just started reading ... good intro ....
Understanding physics and its practical application is becoming important. Book about how quantum effects are being applied in computing and cryptography.
Existential Physics: A Scientist's…From Schneier on Security
LastPass Breach
Last August, LastPass reported a security breach, saying that no customer information—or passwords—were compromised. Turns out the full story is worse:
While no customer data was accessed during the August 2022 incident, some…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The paranoid program
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One of the greatest characters in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, science fiction radio series, books and film was Marvin the Paranoid Android. Marvin wasn’t actually…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (December 25 2022)
One of Elon Musk’s ventures, OpenAI, made public a new tool called ChatGPT. It is widely regarding as a practical breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Given a question, it can produce a coherent essay-length answer. LastContinue…
From BLOG@CACM
Observation of Bias
It may not be that obvious, but it's observable.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
How does Santa do it?
Fast yuletide algorithms to visit all those chimneys in time by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London How does Santa do it? How does he visit all those children, all those chimneys, in just one night? My theory is he combines…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pilotless Cargo Carrying Planes
With Drones everywhere, inevitable. Emerging Market
The cargo hauling aircraft with no pilots on board
Published 4 days ago
A scaled-down version of the Black Swan at an airfield in Bulgaria
By Michael Dempsey Reporter in the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Imagining the AI Cockpit
Something we also imagined for running a large enterprise, rather than just a vehicle. Show all the most useful data and forward simulations.
Driving the Future: What Is an AI Cockpit?
Intelligent interiors are transformingJuly…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Injured Giant Squid and Paddleboarder
Here’s a video—I don’t know where it’s from—of an injured juvenile male giant squid grabbing on to a paddleboard.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered…From The Eponymous Pickle
Dr Mark van Rijmenam, Newsletter
I get the following future newsletter
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On How Not to Win a Tech War
Thoughtful points, more at the link ...
From ACM DEPARTMENTS
How Not to Win a Tech War By Moshe Y. Vardi
Communications of the ACM, January 2023, Vol. 66 No. 1, Page 7 10.1145/3571077
CACM Senior Editor Moshe Y. Vardi
AIn…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast base16 encoding
Given binary data, we often need to encode it as ASCII text. Email and much of the web effectively works in this manner. A popular format for this purpose is base64. With Muła, we showed that we could achieve excellent speedContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
'Jetson' Robots in Hospitals
What exactly is the Jetson Style? How will people react?
ACM TECHNEWS
Jetsons-Style Robots Invading Chicago-Area Hospitals
By Chicago Tribune, December 21, 2022
Hospital staffers hold elevator doors for a Moxi robot.
Moxi robots…From insideHPC
Hyperion: Concerns about Trajectory of Classical HPC Helping to Drive Quantum R&D
In the face of tremendous complexities and uncertain progress, quantum computing continues to draw significant investments and R&D efforts from countries and companies around the world. A key reason: an “increasing concern about…
From BLOG@CACM
What Do ChatGPT and AI-based Automatic Program Generation Mean for the Future of Software
ChatGPT is game-changing, the kind of thing that you witness once in a generation.