Communications of the ACM
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March 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fungal Motherboards?
Chemical or living tissue computers that can be linked to electronic components? The ultimate example of Biochemical collaboration. Fungi computing? Embedded regeneration? UnConventual to be sure.
ACM TECHNEWS
Inside …From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan Piloting Digital Yen
How stable and secure? Simulation tests to be run. .
Japan to Launch Pilot Program for Issuing Digital Yen, By Reuters February 23, 2023
If everything goes as planned, the Bank Of Japan could issue a central bank digital…From insideHPC
Quantum Exponential Group Names Stuart Woods Chief Operating and Strategy Officer
March 2, 2023 — Quantum Exponential Group plc (AQUIS: QBIT), a company focused on investing in quantum technology, has announce that it has appointed Stuart Woods as chief operating and strategy officer. This non-board position…
From insideHPC
Quantum Brilliance Launches Software Suite for Application Integration
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, March 2, 2023 — Quantum Brilliance, a developer of room-temperature miniaturised quantum computing products, today announced the launch of its Qristal software suite, enabling R&D teams to explore integrating…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intro to Leveraging Generative AI Chat in Customer and Employee Experiemce
Good introductory non-technical piece.
How Business Leaders Can Leverage Generative AI in Customer and Employee Experience By Thomas Wieberneit -March 1, 2023 in Customerthink
The AI playground has evolved a lot throughout…From insideHPC
Azure, AMD and the Power of Cloud-based HPC for Sustainability R&D Projects
[SPONSORED CONTENT] Sustainability – both in the way it operates and in its support for the development of sustainable technologies and products – is a theme that permeates the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform and its end…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interesting Auction Tech
Worked on some auction tech way back when, so this interested me. Not to say I fully understand it, but like to see new and differ ways of valuing things.
Through the looking glass: A cross-chain sealed-bid auction using Aztec…From Schneier on Security
Nick Weaver on Regulating Cryptocurrency
Nicholas Weaver wrote an excellent paper on the problems of cryptocurrencies and the need to regulate the space—with all existing regulations. His conclusion:
Regulators, especially regulators in the United States, often fear…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Float-parsing benchmark: Regular Visual Studio, ClangCL and Linux GCC
Windows users have choices when it comes to C++ programming. You may choose to stick with the regular Visual Studio. If you prefer, Microsoft makes available ClangCL which couples the LLVM compiler (commonly used by Apple) with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Authentication Method Fooled
Generative systems allow for the fine tuning of that generation, so need to be carefully used:
Fooling a Voice Authentication System with an AI-Generated Voice a reporter used an AI synthesis of his own voice to fool the voice…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots let ChatGPT touch the Real World
This was mentioned previously, intriguing to me, following up on a possible supply chain area application. Link from below provide more information on the details.
Robots let ChatGPT touch the real world thanks to Microsoft By…From The Eponymous Pickle
InFants Outperforming AI
Infants outperforming AI, very interesting finding ... implications ... Commonsense? Recall some similar results from early AI.
Surprising Study? Finds Infants Outperform AI in 'Commonsense Psychology'
By New York University,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Ground Robot Helps Firefighters in Enclosed Spaces
Note the number of integrated sensors
Autonomous Ground Robot Helps Firefighters in Enclosed Spaces
Interesting Engineering
By Nergis Firtina, February 21, 2023
Researchers at Spain's Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Universidad Aut…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
100,000 frames – quick draw: how computers help animators create ^JB
Ben Stephenson of the University of Calgary gives us a guide to the basics of animation. Animation isn’t a new field – artists have been creating animations for over a hundred years. While the technology used to create thoseContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Launching Supply Chain Platform for Retail Partners, Dives Into Digital Innovation and Data Strategies
My former employer Announces 02/28/2023
Liz Dominguez, Managing Editor in Consumergoods.com
P&G is continuing to invest…From The Eponymous Pickle
Is SAP Using ChatGPT?
Did some exploration of what companies are embedding of using using ChatGPT and found this in a look at SAP: Not directly it seems, but incudes machine learning. Would seem to be an ideal application.
From ChatGPT but Note…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Dear Colleague Letter: Request for Information on Future Directions for the NSF Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace Program
The following is a joint Dear Colleague Letter from three Assistant Directors at the National Science Foundation – Margaret Martonosi (CISE), James L. Moore III (STEM Education (EDU)), Susan S. Margulies (Engineering (ENG)) Sean…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ascon for Small Device Protection
Key need, given how many of these is currently remotely connected.
US NIST adopts Ascon algorithms for small device protection By David Manners 16th February 2023, For Light Weight Crypto, ElectronicsWeekly
The US National Institute…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Domestic Chores
Examined these stats in the 80s, similar results. Feasibility by task
Robots to do 39% of domestic chores by 2033, say experts
Within a decade, around 39% of the time spent on housework and caring for loved ones could be automated…From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Announces OCP-Compliant Enterprise Products
March 2, 2023 ─ High performance server company Giga Computing has announced new GIGABYTE enterprise products that follow the Open Compute Project (OCP) Open Rack Version 3 (ORV3) standards. Supporting the latest CPU advancements…
From BLOG@CACM
Enabling AI Projects In An Enterprise
Identifying the development behaviors that have the highest chance of success for artificial intelligence efforts.
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Create, Release, and Share Generative AI Responsibly
What are the responsibilities of generating?
ACM NEWS
How to Create, Release, and Share Generative AI Responsibly
By MIT Technology Review,February 27, 2023
One of the most important elements of the guidelines is a pact by the companies…From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Headset Enables Users to See Hidden Objects
Who decides what we get to See?
Augmented Reality Headset Enables Users to See Hidden Objects
By MIT News, March 1, 2023
The X-AR augmented reality headset combines computer vision and wireless perception to automatically locate…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Having Issues with its AI
Not unexpected, but it looks bad,
Microsoft Has No Idea How Stupid to Make Its AI
By Futurism, February 23, 2023
Microsoft said in a statement, "The goal is to give you more control on the type of chat behavior to best meet your…From Computational Complexity
Goodbye Dilbert
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, had a racist rant in a video he posted last week. As a result most newspapers that carried the comic strip are dropping Dilbert, including our local Chicago Tribune. I fully support these moves…
From insideHPC
Enabling Innovation for CFD Simulations, Thanks to Ansys and AWS
Using the integrated suite of Ansys solvers, including fluids, structural and composites simulation, Emirates Team New Zealand designed a craft that provided accurate and fast control while remaining within weight targets. The…
From Schneier on Security
Dumb Password Rules
Troy Hunt is collecting examples of dumb password rules.
There are some pretty bad disasters out there.
My worst experiences are with sites that have artificial complexity requirements that cause my personal password-generation…From The Eponymous Pickle
API for ChatGPT for Enterprise Customers
More advances, direct
OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers
Kyle Wiggers@kyle_l_wiggers / inTechCrunch
To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco…From insideHPC
Pure Storage Introduces FlashBlade//E for Unstructured Data
Mountain View, CA – March 1, 2023 — High performance data storage company Pure Storage today announced FlashBlade//E, a scale-out unstructured data repository built to handle data growth at scale. Pure said with the price of
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Worked with Roger Schank in Early AI
Was always interested linguistic connections. He was a client of ours. I would not call him a theorist, much more of an adept salesman of the leading edge.
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