Communications of the ACM
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February 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Columbia Business School Digital Future Initiative
Columbia's Digital Future Initiative
“Digital technology has and will continue to transform our lives and CBS has a role in both advancing research and educating the next generation of leaders to succeed in and shape the digital…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft taking Leaps Forward to GPT
Doubling down, some say.
Microsoft continues to double down on its embrace of ChatGPT, By Alan Truly in Digital
Microsoft’s race to integrate ChatGPT into its products took some big steps forward today.
As per an announcement…From Schneier on Security
Manipulating Weights in Face-Recognition AI Systems
Interesting research: “Facial Misrecognition Systems: Simple Weight Manipulations Force DNNs to Err Only on Specific Persons“:
Abstract: In this paper we describe how to plant novel types of backdoors in any facial recognition…From The Eponymous Pickle
What to buy for Responsible AI
Agreed, process still inclear.
Enterprises Don't Know What to Buy for Responsible AI in Darkreading
Organizations are struggling to procure appropriate technical tools to address responsible AI, such as consistent bias detection…From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoom Tries Conversational AI
A space we examined very early on to support group meetings and work. Now finally emerging?
Zoom enters the conversational AI arena
By Ryan Daws | January 27, 2023 | TechForge Media, Ryan is a senior editor at TechForge Media…From CERIAS Blog
Malicious Compliance: A story
I recently saw an account of malicious compliance recounted in r/eddit and quoted in a Mastodon thread
Not allowed to work from home so I don't
My job recently told me that even during the snowstorm we got earlier this week,…
From insideHPC
NSF Announces Solicitation for Open-source Ecosystems
Feb. 2, 2023 — The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) published a solicitation for the Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems, or POSE, program that aims to harness the power of open-source development as a platform of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Miro Managing Meetings and their Results?
For some time we talked about the desire for enterprises to manage meetings. Their planning, efficient operation and gathering of results. Next steps. The integration of needed expertise. Things like who needs to do what and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu Challenges GPT!
AI thaws, and the Race is on. Some details below, and at the link. Had seen a demo of ERNIE and its use with Baidu before.
Baidu to Launch Powerful ChatGPT Rival By Ryan Daws | January 30, 2023 | TechForge Media
Categories…From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: 'See, Solve, Scale' By Danny Warshay
Book: Reading now. Largely about building companies, getting customers and related marketing. Nicely done, good ideas, breakthroughs and directions. Lots of real 'Why' examples. - FAD
From insideHPC
SAP Announces Partnership to Expand Use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
WALLDORF, GERMANY AND RALEIGH, N.C. – February 1, 2023 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and open source solutions provider Red Hat, Inc. today announced an expanded partnership to increase SAP’s use of and support for Red Hat Enterprise…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force Releases Final Report
This week the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force released a roadmap to establish a national research infrastructure aimed to broaden access to resources for AI research and development. There…
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Might be Able to Write Your Own Apple AR/VR Headset Apps?
Like the idea, But how easy will it be? Lots of dated rumor out there, warning.
You might be able to write your own Apple AR/VR headset apps
Includes link to a podcast in TechRadar, By David Nield
The long-rumored Apple AR…From insideHPC
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Subscription Offering
OpenAI, maker of the generative AI application ChatGPT that has created an internet sensation, has announced a subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, for $20/month that pays for access to the app during peak time. “ChatGPT Plus is
…
From BLOG@CACM
The Need For Combined Data And Analytic Governance
Numbers don't mean anything if people don't understand, or trust, the computation behind them.
From Computational Complexity
Responsibility
Nature laid out their ground rules for large language models like ChatGPT including
No LLM tool will be accepted as a credited author on a research paper. That is because any attribution of authorship carries with it accountability…From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf
Met him once at a company meeting. DARPA Connection. Often mentioned here, writing linked to.
IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf, He codesigned the Internet protocol and transmission control protocol By JOANNA GOODRICH…From The Eponymous Pickle
General Purpose Robotics?
Like the idea of 'general purpose' robotics, but should we be skeptical, concerned, scared?
Apptronik Developing General-Purpose Humanoid Robot Apollo will be a practical bipedal platform that can do useful tasks By Evan Ackerman…From The Eponymous Pickle
UK as a Crypto Hub?
UK Government promises robust crypto regulation
Ministers want to make the UK a crypto hub, By Tom Singleton, Technology team
The government has published proposals for crypto-asset regulation it hopes will "manage" the risks…From The Eponymous Pickle
Malicious Prompt Engineering
And much more discussion of related AI and language generation topics.
GPT Malicious Prompt Engineering
32SecurityWeek by Kevin Townsend / January 25, 2023
The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT available to everyone in late 2022 hasTasks…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Adept at Misinformation
Ease of use most likely to contribute. But will such methods mentioned also lead towards auto censorship?
ACM TECHNEWS
Learning to Lie: AI Tools Adept at Creating Disinformation, By Associated Press, January 26, 2023
Tools powered…From Schneier on Security
AIs as Computer Hackers
Hacker “Capture the Flag” has been a mainstay at hacker gatherings since the mid-1990s. It’s like the outdoor game, but played on computer networks. Teams of hackers defend their own computers while attacking other teams’. It…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Ludwig Wittgenstein: tautology and truth tables
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. His interest was in logic and truth, language, meaning and ethics. As an aside he made contributions…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Serializing IPs quickly in C++
On the Internet, we often use 32-bit addresses which we serialize as strings such as 192.128.0.1. The string corresponds to the Integer address 0xc0800001 (3229614081 in decimal). How might you serialize, go from the integerContinue…
From insideHPC
Embedded Edge AI SiMa.ai Releases PCIe-based Production Boards
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Embedded edge AI company SiMa.ai today announced availability of two new PCIe-based production boards that scales embedded edge ML deployments for key customers. The availability of these two new commercially…
From insideHPC
Panasas Announces PanView and Pan Move Software for HPC and AI Data Visibility and Mobility
SAN JOSE, February 1, 2023 – High-performance storage company Panasas today announced the general availability of PanView and PanMove, the company’s software products designed to improve data visibility and mobility at organizations…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Final Call for CCC Council Nominations
There is just over a week left to nominate yourself or a colleague to be a CCC Council member for terms beginning July 1, 2023. Nominations are open through 11:59pm EST on Friday, February 10, 2023. To nominate someone, please…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Research on Language Models
Good insight into what this is all about, and what they are doing today and beyond. Below just the intro, following:
Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Language, vision and generative models
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2023
Posted byToday…From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering Noto Fonts
Brought to my attention regarding multi lingual font support;
How to find Noto in Google Docs, Slides, Sheets and Sites in the Google Blog.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts
The Noto fonts in Workspace now support…From The Eponymous Pickle
GLM-130B: An Open Bilingual Pre-Trained Model
Linguists building and using AI language models. Commented on here in Upenn's Language Log.
January 25, 2023 @ 9:10 am · Filed by Victor Mair under Artificial intelligence, Computational…