Communications of the ACM
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March 2023
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Emerging Election Technologies Enhancing Integrity, Transparency, and Confidence” AAAS Panel Recap
Elections that are safe, secure, and verifiable by the public are an essential part of every democratic government. There have been public outcries for changes in the election process in the US and around the world as citizens…
From BLOG@CACM
Artificial Intelligence Without Real Intelligence?
Do the programs understand what they write?
From BLOG@CACM
AI in the Public Interest: Education and Democracy
Now is a critical time to vigorously pursue public interests in education and to avoid a slippery slide into yielding public governance to an entirely private market view of how AI should be made available to students, teachers…
From Computational Complexity
A Strange Hiring Season
In my fall jobs post, I had trouble predicting this season's CS faculty job market but I didn't expect this: strong supply and strong demand, something we haven't seen since the early '80s when the then young CS departmentsWe…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bard is Out and Being Tested in Changed World of High Expectations
Google has announced their model, has been getting some criticism. But as they say it is still just a test. There are lots of models jumping out there. Google seems to have moved early without enough testing. Expectations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Voice Scan
Vocal scams commonly used.
AI Voice Scam, an example of some of the dangers involved.
They Thought Loved Ones Were Calling for Help. It Was an AI Scam By The Washington Post, March 14, 2023
In 2022, impostor scams were the second…From Schneier on Security
Mass Ransomware Attack
A vulnerability in a popular data transfer tool has resulted in a mass ransomware attack:
TechCrunch has learned of dozens of organizations that used the affected GoAnywhere file transfer software at the time of the ransomware…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Can GPT pass my programming courses?
Professeur Caplan reports that ChatGPT, the new AI that is all the rage, can pass his economics midterm and get an A. What about computer science ? I submitted to GPT one problem I offer my students… Write a Java program that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GitHub unveils Copilot X: The Future of AI-powered Software Development
Now here is a future that has some real value ...
GitHub unveils Copilot X: The future of AI-powered software development
Michael Nuñez in Venturebeat
@MichaelFNunez, March 22, 2023
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11…From insideHPC
TACC: Simulation Reveals Secrets of Exotic Electrons
March 22, 2023 — The Texas Advanced Computing Center has announced that simulations on TACC’s Frontera supercomputer have helped scientists map for the first time the conditions that characterize exotic electrons, called polarons…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Large language models also Work for Protein Structures
We asked this question long ago, usefully answered? Very big deal if so.
THE LANGUAGE OF BIOCHEMISTRY —
Large language models also work for protein structures
Training on raw protein sequences allows the AI to make inferences about…From insideHPC
National Black Engineer Awards Celebrate Sandia Labs Scientists
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 22, 2023 — Three Sandia National Laboratories professionals recently received 2023 Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA). Danielle Stephenson was lauded as a Senior Technology Fellow, Coby Davis as…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Says AI is Getting Very Important
In part pushed by recent advances?
AI News
Editorial: UK puts AI at the centre of its Budget
By Ryan Daws | March 16, 2023 | TechForge Media
Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Development, Enterprise, Industries, Legislation &Ryan…From insideHPC
Mitsui and NVIDIA Announce Generative AI Supercomputer for Pharma
March 21, 2023 — Japanese business conglomerate Mitsui & Co., Ltd. announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA on Tokyo-1 — an initiative for Japan’s pharmaceutical industry with technology, including high-resolution molecular
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Replacing Coders Already?
Inevitable....
Startups Are Already Using GPT-4 to Spend Less on Human Coders
GPT-4 "saves a lot of time and a lot of money, obviously, because we haven't had to hire additional resources." By Chloe Xiang, March 20, 2023, 9:00am…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Bard
Got into Google Bard from the wait list in just a few hours. See Bard.google.com Here is how they describe it. And Perhaps naturally, each interaction also includes the ability to use a google search . Says it uses the…
From insideHPC
LiquidStack Secures Series B Funding from Trane Technologies
BOSTON, March 22, 2023 — LiquidStack, maker of liquid immersion cooling solutions for data centers, has received an investment from Trane Technologies, a climate company. Trane Technologies, through its strategic brand Trane,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Fears of Tok
TikTok: UK ministers banned from using Chinese-owned app on government phones
TikTok on a phone, By Chas Geiger & Zoe Kleinman, BBC News
British government ministers have been banned from using Chinese-owned social media app TikTok…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Security Guards
Inevitable, increasing in smart application.
Robots are your new office security guard in Axios
Jennifer A. Kingson
See Cobalt Robotics.
They stand five feet tall and glide at three miles per hour, patrolling office buildings…From The Eponymous Pickle
Humans get X-Ray Vision in Augmented Reality
Seen this in previous worlds we experimented with. Concept interesting.
MIT researchers invented an augmented reality headset that gives humans X-ray vision. The invention, dubbed X-AR, combines wireless sensing with computer…From insideHPC
Women in HPC Invites Early Career Poster Authors for ISC23
March 22, 2023 — The Women in HPC Planning Committee for ISC23 has announced that this year’s Early Career Posters for Women in HPC is now accepting submissions. ISC will be held in Hamburg, German, May 21-25. The posters will…
From insideHPC
PNY Now Offers NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation for High Performance Computing (HPC) Workloads
The latest generation of graphics processing units (GPUs) from NVIDIA, based on their Ada Lovelace architecture, is optimized for high performance computing (HPC) workloads. The NVIDIA RTX™ 6000 Ada Generation, available from…
From Schneier on Security
ChatGPT Privacy Flaw
OpenAI has disabled ChatGPT’s privacy history, almost certainly because they had a security flaw where users were seeing each others’ histories.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Problems Better Than Solutions
Defining the problem often means more than solving it Avrim Blum is the CAO at TTIC who got his degrees at MIT and then was at CMU almost for 25 years: CAO is Chief Academic Officer; TTIC is Toyota Technological Institute at…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Startups Using GPT-4
GPT-4is impressive so far ....
Startups Are Already Using GPT-4 to Spend Less on Human Coders
GPT-4 "saves a lot of time and a lot of money, obviously, because we haven't had to hire additional resources."
By Chloe Xiang in Vice…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Counting cycles and instructions on ARM-based Apple systems
In my blog post Counting cycles and instructions on the Apple M1 processor, I showed how we could have access to “performance counters” to count how many cycles and instructions a given piece of code took on ARM-based mac systems…
From insideHPC
CoreWeave Announces NovelAI among First with NVIDIA HGX H100 GPUs Online
Roseland, N.J. — March 21, 2023 — CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider built for large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, today announced general availability of instances of NVIDIA HGX H100 GPUs online. This is CoreWeave’s
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From insideHPC
Cloud Company Vultr Announces Availability of NVIDIA H100s and Data Science Partnerships with Anadonda and Domino Data Labs
March 21, 2023 — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Vultr, cloud computing company, today announced availability of the NVIDIA HGX H100 for accelerated computing. Vultr also announced today a three-way strategic alliance with leading data…
From insideHPC
Quantum Brilliance Announces Software for Compiling Programs Written in CUDA Quantum
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, March 21, 2023 — Quantum Brilliance, a developer of quantum computing products and solutions, has released a new version of its open-source Qristal software able to compile quantum programs written in CUDA…
From insideHPC
DDN Announces Compatibility with NVIDIA DGX H100 and Lambda Partnership
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – March 21, 2023 – AI and multi-cloud data management company DDN today announced compatibility with the next generation of NVIDIA DGX systems, each with eight NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. NVIDIA DGX H100
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