Communications of the ACM
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February 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Metaverse Crime?
Considering:
And from Interpol's perspective, what is Metaverse Crime?
... What is a metaverse crime? in the BBC.
Dr Madan Oberoi, Interpol's executive director of technology and innovation, said there are issues with defining…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Breakthroughs
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI that makes images: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023
By Will Douglas Heaven, January…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Sensor Provides Cardiac Imaging on the Go
I have a similar implanted device, but without the imaging and other smarts detailed here.
Wearable Sensor Provides Cardiac Imaging on the Go
By UC San Diego Today, February 3, 2023
The unique design of the sensor makes it ideal…From insideHPC
Reduce Costs while Accelerating Data-intensive HPC Workloads
Access virtually unlimited infrastructure with HPC optimized instances and quick interconnect speeds to run more complex (FEA) simulations faster. Reduce product development costs, improve product quality, and shorten time-to…
From Schneier on Security
Mary Queen of Scots Letters Decrypted
This is a neat piece of historical research.
The team of computer scientist George Lasry, pianist Norbert Biermann and astrophysicist Satoshi Tomokiyo—all keen cryptographers—initially thought the batch of encoded documents …From Putting People First
Behavioural change to reduce energy use
Six reports on behavioural change and energy use: potential impact, obstacles, the role of policy makers, and how to best communicate to citizens.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Ways to Search Visually
Have tried this a number of times, still learning, like the idea, but it is hard to separate different elements of form effectively. Any good guidance out there? Will test.
From images to videos, how AI is helping you search…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Getting More Immersive and Stable
As mentioned in todays event ...
New ways Maps is getting more immersive and sustainable
Feb 08, 2020 Chris Phillips, VP & General Manager, Geo
Last year, we shared our vision for the future of Google Maps — an immersive, intuitive…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft will let Companies Create their own Custom Versions of ChatGPT
Make Sense to have tailored versions to enforce local uses and security
Microsoft will let companies create their own custom versions of ChatGPT, source says
February 8, 2023
Microsoft plans to release software to help large companies…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reactions to todays Google/AI Bard Event
Nicely done, worth taking a look, should still be available om the Google Youtube site.
Here my very early impressions. Based on building systems that did this.
Not too much was specifically said about Bard, except that it would…From insideHPC
NetApp Announces Flash Storage Data Center Product Line
SAN JOSE — February 7, 2023 — NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced the upcoming availability of the NetApp AFF C-Series, a family of capacity flash storage options designed to deliver lower cost all-flash storage, and NetApp…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China's Baidu's ERNIE Plans to Compete
Have followed Ernie as an assistant style chatbot for some time, and saw chatbot style approaches like 'Ernie' in a visit to China. Previously mentioned here. Unclear yet how ERNIE compares to ChatGPT in abilities. Here…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meta, Yet Another Contender in the AI Rush?
Is Meta poised for this too? Must this be VR oriented?
Meta, Long an A.I. Leader, Tries Not to Be Left Out of the Boom By The New York Times, February 8, 2023
Meta has been left out now that Silicon Valley is gripped with…From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Causal Trees
Should always be thinking in this direction. Usefully integrating analysis and reality with process.
Understanding Causal Trees Towards Data Science by Matteo Courthoud / February 03, 2023
How to use regression treesIn…From Schneier on Security
SolarWinds and Market Incentives
In early 2021, IEEE Security and Privacy asked a number of board members for brief perspectives on the SolarWinds incident while it was still breaking news. This was my response.
The penetration of government and corporate networks…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Bit Hacking (with Go code)
At a fundamental level, a programmer needs to manipulate bits. Modern processors operate over data by loading in ‘registers’ and not individual bits. Thus a programmer must know how to manipulate the bits within a register. Generally…
From insideHPC
ZeroPoint Raises EUR 3.2M to Cut Data Center Energy Consumption
Gothenburg, Sweden, Feb. 7, 2023 — ZeroPoint Technologies AB announced today closed a EUR 3.2 million seed round in late January from climate tech investor Climentum Capital, Nordic VC Industrifonden, Chalmers Ventures, and present…
From insideHPC
atNorth to Open 5MW Data Center Campus in Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland – February 7th, 2023 – Iceland-based atNorth, a pan-Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has reached an agreement to acquire an additional site in Finland…
From insideHPC
On the Front Lines of AI: Training Large Language Models on New Tasks – without All the Retraining
Sometimes, machine learning models learn a new task without seeming to have learned – or been trained – to do it. That’s the findings of researchers at MIT, Stanford and Google Research, who report on a curious phenomenon called…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google AI/Bard Event Tomorrow
This Google AI/Bard event will be live streamed on YouTube tomorrow morning, February 8th at 8:30 ET. I plan to attend and report. They also plan to talk about how other Google products, like Google Lens, Translate, Shopping…
From The Eponymous Pickle
D-Wave Quantum Annealing Solving Protein Folding
Have mentioned our linking with D-Wave for very large search problems, recently some new news about their work in other spaces we also examined: Protein Folding.
Quantum annealing by D-Wave
See: https://www.youtube.com/user…From insideHPC
EnGenius: Point-to-Point Client Bridge Now Equipped with Wi-Fi 6 Technology
COSTA MESA, Calif., February 7, 2023 — Networking soutions provider EnGenius Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of the ENH500-AX, a Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) 5GHz 2×2 outdoor wireless point to point client bridge. This product…
From insideHPC
MindsDB Machine Learning Platform Raises $16.5M
San Francisco – February 7, 2023 – Machine learning platform maker MindsDB today announced a $16.5M Series A investment from Benchmark. MindsDB said the platform was built to speed up the process of building AI-powered applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Challenges with Bard AI
Should be an interesting cmpetition here, links with search should be a natural place to insert Bard. Google also has to show they are serious about making key tools permanent.
An important next step on our AI journey
Feb 06…From insideHPC
GlossAi Raises $8M to Support Its Content Generative V-Ai Platform at Scale
Tel Aviv, Israel, February 7, 2023– GlossAi, creators of an AI-driven video generator that allows organizations to create multi-audience content at scale using generative AI capabilities, today announced an $8 million seed round…
From insideHPC
Lenovo and WEKA Announce Collaboration for AI, Analytics and Hybrid Cloud Data Management
February 7, 2023 – RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) and WEKA announced a new global agreement focused on offering next-generation data management architectures and performance-intensive workloads…
From insideHPC
Uttar Pradesh Goverment Signs MoU for Quantum Computing Data Center in India
07th Feb. 2023, New Delhi/Noida/Lucknow, India — Today, Uttar Pradesh Government signs a MoU with Innogress for setting up India’s first quantum computing data center, ‘IQDC’ (Indraprastha Quantum Data Center), at Greater Noida…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
FOCS 2022 Program
Alvy Ray Smith designed the distinctive cover art that was a notable feature of FOCS proceedings until FOCS ended the production of printed proceedings in 2010. FOCS was founded in 1960 as the Symposium on Switching Circuit Theory…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Echolocaton
More examples of biomimicry here and hint at possible mapping application,
Flying Robot Echolocates Like a Bat to Avoid Hitting Walls, By New Scientist, February 6, 2023
This drone uses a buzzer and microphone set-up to navigate…From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenAI Has Hired an Army of Contractors to Make Basic Coding Obsolete
Still premature, depending on definition of 'basic', still considerable need to check and integrate codes. Can see the need for labeling for training activity
OpenAI Has Hired an Army of Contractors to Make Basic Coding Obsolete…