Communications of the ACM
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March 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Bard Is Here (Waitlist)
Yet another chatty AI, examining. From the Lamda Language model.
- You can sign up to try Bard at bard.google.com. We'll begin rolling out access in the U.S. and U.K. today and expanding over time to more countries and languages…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins in Consumer Package Goods
In the process of looking for in process applications
Digital Twins & CPG Manufacturing Transformation
By Justin Honaman, Worldwide Head of Consumer Products – Food & Beverage, AWS
Good intro piece
dig·i·tal: of, relating to,…From Yoshua Bengio
Scaling in the service of reasoning & model-based ML
This blog post is co-written by my PhD student Edward J. Hu. Scaling seems to work really well. We must be cautious in pursuing research…
L’article Scaling in the service of reasoning & model-based ML est apparu en premier sur…From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC advises staff to delete TikTok from work phones
Security addressed at the BBC
BBC advises staff to delete TikTok from work phones
Published, 22 hours ago, By Zoe Kleinman, Andre Rhoden-Paul & Chris Vallance
BBC News
The BBC has advised staff to delete TikTok from corporate phones…From insideHPC
ADIA Lab to Establish European HQ in Spain
Granada, Spain — 21 March 2023 — The government of Spain has signed an agreement with ADIA Lab, the Abu-Dhabi-based research institute dedicated to data and computational sciences, that will see ADIA Lab establish its European…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use cases of GPT-4
Directions and examples.....
MIT Technology Review
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
How AI experts are using GPT-4
Plus: Chinese tech giant Baidu just released its answer to ChatGPT.
By Melissa Heikkiläarchive page
March 21, 2023 STEPHANIE…From The Eponymous Pickle
Security Robotics
Basic physical security is needed.
Robots are your new office security guard
Jennifer A. Kingson
They stand five feet tall and glide at three miles per hour, patrolling office buildings for everything from broken…From Schneier on Security
US Citizen Hacked by Spyware
The New York Times is reporting that a US citizen’s phone was hacked by the Predator spyware.
A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta’s security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by…From insideHPC
OmniScale Media Selected as SC23 Strategic Communications Partner
Vancouver, WA – March 21, 2023 – OmniScale Media, a media agency focused on advanced computing technology companies, today announced a new partnership with SC23, the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Debuts PaLM API and MakerSuite for Generative AI App Developers
Google Tools for Building Generative AI
Google Debuts PaLM API and MakerSuite for Generative AI App Developers
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ
Google has introduced two new tools for building generative AI projects. The new PaLM API offers access…From insideHPC
IBM Quantum System One Deployed at Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland and Armonk, NY – March 20, 2023 – Today, Cleveland Clinic and IBM officially unveiled what they said is the onsite, private sector IBM-managed quantum computer in the United States. The IBM Quantum System One will be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cohere.ai Pre trained Models and Tools for NLP Tasks
Brought to my attention, Useful when combined with GPT models? Experiences?
Harness the power of text A
See their blog for examples, uses: https://txt.cohere.ai/
Automatically generate writing according to any criteria…From insideHPC
AWS Adopting HVO to Decarbonize Data Centers in Europe
March 20, 2023 — Amazon Web Services said today it has begun transitioning to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) to power backup generators at its data centers in Europe, with sites in Ireland and Sweden among the first to make…
From insideHPC
HPE Acquiring OpsRamp for GreenLake ITOM
HOUSTON – March 20, 2023 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today said it has agreed to acquire OpsRamp, an IT operations management (ITOM) company that monitors, observes, automates and manages IT infrastructure, cloud…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CGT: Smart Packaging
CGT Insider, CGT Webinar
Towards an area of much smarter packaging, Get ready
ICYMI: How ChatGPT Could Overhaul Consumer Goods and Red Flags to Look For
The best strategy for generative AI is likely cautious experimentation atUnilever…From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Control with Better Speech Recognition
Industrial manufacturing view ....
Intuitive machine control using speech recognition
Research News / February 15, 2023
Fraunhofer researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Oldenburg have developed…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Loyalty Gap: Difference Between Repeat and Loyal Customers
Customers considered
The Loyalty Gap: The Difference Between Repeat Customers and Loyal Customers
By Shep Hyken -March 16, 2023 in Customerthink
Or, The Loyalty Gap. In a recent Shepard Letter, I discussed the Trust Gap,…From Computational Complexity
New Upper Bound on R(k). WOW!
R(k) is the least n such that for all 2-colorings of the edges of \(K_n\) there is a monochromatic \(K_k\)
(so there are k vertices such that the coloring restricted to the edges between those k vertices is constant)
Here is some…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Empowered by Support: Communities, Connections & Careers – Part 3
Part 1 – Introductions and impact of communities in career Part 2 – Initiatives and communities for women We continue with Kathleen’s journey in a startup. Kathleen, please tell us more about OwnTrail, which you were a member…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Empowered by Support: Communities, Connections & Careers – Part 2
Part 1 – Introductions and impact of communities in career Continuing our discussion, could you talk more about your own initiatives? What are also some other initiatives that are available for free for anyone? Are there any…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Empowered by Support: Communities, Connections & Careers – Part 1
Whether you are a student or an experienced engineering leader, a robust network, an opportunity for peer learning, the prospects of mentorship, and a crowd-sourced catalogue of career opportunities are vital for your personal…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Above and Beyond Scholarship – Dilrukshi Gamage, PhD
Year of Scholarship and Conference Attendance: ICCE (International Conference on Computers in Education) 2014 Nara, Japan Country of Origin: Sri Lanka Country of residence at the time of receiving the ACM-W Scholarship: Sri…
From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenAI Launches GPT-4 (Announcement, Description and Further Details)
(Link throughs will be updated)
OpenAI launches GPT-4!
MLOps Newsletter <[email protected]> Unsubscribe
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Open in app or online
You’re on the free list for MLOps Newsletter. For the full experience, become…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Liability
Is this different from more general liability issues? Does it matter in how the technology is seen by consumers, patients? As intelligent? . In the last AI efforts we talked with with company lawyers. Insurance Implications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology in Insurance Sector (India)
Would think that AI would also change things strongly here. How specific this is to India is unclear.
ACM NEWS
Technology Innovation in the Insurance Sector
By Express Computer (India), March 14, 2023
The insurance sector has experienced…From The Eponymous Pickle
ISSIP Talk on Digital Twins
The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP)
ISSIP Ambassador Panel Online Talk on Digital Twins
ISSIP Ambassadors Shaun West and Antonio Padovano joined the ISSIP Ambassador Panel Talk on Digital…From The Eponymous Pickle
Boosting Photodiode Efficiency to 220%
Towards more efficient power for devices
Boosting Photodiode Efficiency to 220%, By R. Colin Johnson
Commissioned by CACM Staff, March 16, 2023
Eindhoven University of Technology’s super-sensitive photodiode will be used in sensors…From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA GPU Accellerated Applications
From NVIDIA< GPU Accellerated Applications. - Quite a considerable library Examining.
Industries
Financial Services
Consumer Internet
Healthcare
Higher Education
Retail
Public Sector
All Industries >
Solutions
Data Analytics
Machine…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome to our new ACM-W Scholarships Committee Chair!
Dr Marjana Prifti Skenduli is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of New York Tirana, Albania. She received her bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Tirana…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Ohio Celebration of Women in Conference (OCWiC) 2023!
It’s a wrap! The Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWiC) occurred on February 24th & 25th, 2023, at Sawmill Creek Resort in Huron, Ohio. Except for 2021, due to the pandemic, this celebration has occurred every odd year…