Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2023
From Geeking with Greg
NATO on bots, sockpuppets, and shills manipulating social media
NATO has a new report, "Social Media Manipulation 2022/2023: Assessing the Ability of Social Media Companies to Combat Platform Manipulation". Buying manipulation remains cheap ... The vast majority of the inauthentic engagement…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploring Definition of Digital Twins in GPT
Been exploring how well GPT defines technical terms that I know by experience. Here is an example: Digital Twins. In particular its relationship to digital simulation approaches, which I have done in industry for a long …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Arterys: The future of precision medicine
Brought to my Attention , aimed at healthcare practices...
Arterys: The future of precision medicine that only human + AI can achieve.
The Arterys platform extracts actionable insights from medical images to add clinical value…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Finding Words With All The Letters Programming project
Does anyone else lay in bed in the morning thinking about coding projects or is it just me? I’ve been playing around with a Wordle solver helper for a while now. It helps me find words based on what I know after each guess. One…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automated Decision Making at the Warehouse
Useful thoughts, makes much sense.
Automated Decision-Making in the Warehouse
Warehouse-within-warehouse pictured on tablet screen
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March 16, 2023 Sponsored by LogistiVIEW
Though warehouse management systems (WMS)…From The Eponymous Pickle
New Knowledge from Digital Twins
New Knowledge from Digital Twins
Digital Twins Offer Us Access to New Knowledge By SINTEF (Norway) March 14, 2023 in CACM
According to SINTEF researcher Jan Tore Fagertun, “A digital twin incorporating real-time simulation makes…From The Eponymous Pickle
Will Models like ChatGPT completely Replace Chatbots?
Just an excerpt of a larger article, struck me as I looked at the overall experience in ChatGPT, well put. Clickthrough for much more. I am now putting together a means of classifying related search for a proposed application…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bulletins via News from the Future: Gamers Win?
Office-verses and Gamers are here.
From: IFTF News from the Future
IFTF Distinguished Fellow Bob Johansen, Joseph Press, and Christine Bullen co-authored: "Gamers Will Have An Edge In The Officeverse," for Chief Executive…From insideHPC
atNorth: The Future of AI Is an Energy Crisis
By Guy D’Hauwers, atNorth The original definition of artificial intelligence was the ability of computers to perform tasks that people usually did. However, as the technology continues to develop it is apparent that there are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu's Ernie Bot Debut
Chinas Ernie Bot Doesn't do so well in first demo. But the design of the western version is well known, so don't expect this lead to last.
China’s ChatGPT rival Baidu Ernie is off to a rough start From TechCrunch
Rita Liao…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Céad Míle GPT
The gift of Broadscale Linguistic Affinely Regressed Neurally Encoded Yakking By Simplified from “leprechaun robot” Neil L. is sentient. As a fantastical creature, that is his most important attribute. Today we ask whether Neil…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Species of Vampire Squid Lives 3,000 Feet below Sea Level
At least, it seems to be a new species.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: ASCR Workshop on Quantum Computing and Networking, May 1 Deadline
May 17, 2023 — The Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program in the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science is organizing a workshop to identify priority research directions in quantum computing and networking…
From insideHPC
Ng and Keller to Keynote at AI Hardware and Edge AI Summit, Sept. 12-14
March 17, 2023 — Two leading names in AI, Jim Keller of Tenstorrent and Andrew Ng of Landing AI, will deliver keynote addresses at this year’s AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit, Sept. 12-14, in Santa Clara. Registration for the conference…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driving Value with the Metaverse in the Enterprise
Irving talks some of the work that IBM did with the Virtual World 'Second Life' in the mid 2000's at IBM which we also participated in, a nice look with lots of interesting links. This also fills me in on lots of later work…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT Powered Polyorphic Malware Bypasses Filters
Security issues to be resolved.
ChatGPT Powered Polymorphic Malware Bypasses Endpoint Detection Filters By Guru- March 15, 2023
The number of monthly users of ChatGPT exceeded 100 million at the end of January, which sets a…From The Eponymous Pickle
Retraining, Essential.
Examined in practice.
Published in Towards Data Science, By Claire Longo
Embracing Automated Retraining
How to move away from retraining at a set cadence (or not at all) in favor of a dynamic approach
This piece was co-authored…From The Eponymous Pickle
Generative Red Flags for Consumer Goods Generative AI
Consumer goods takes a look ...
By Liz Dominguez, Managing Editor
The top potential use cases for the consumer goods space…From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone Mapping Oveans
Drone Maps Previously Uncharted Ocean Floors Off Alaska, California By FOX Weather, March 10, 2023
The Saildrone Surveyor.The Saildrone Surveyor heading under the Golden Gate Bridge.
Said NOAA's Jeremy Weirich, "This project is…From The Eponymous Pickle
Minirobot Enters Blood Vessels, Complete Surgery
Healthcare robotics advance.
Mini Robot Enters Blood Vessels, Completes Surgery
By IEEE Spectrum, March 10, 2023
Miniature robots traveling through blood vessels could offer a more precise and easy way to access an internal treatment…From Computational Complexity
Identities in Computational Complexity
Guest post by Josh Grochow
On the birdsite, Jay Cummings tweeted:
TOP 5 IDENTITIES OF ALL TIME
— Jay Cummings (@LongFormMath) February 8, 2023
5. You
4. Can't
3. Rank
2. Identities
1. eiπ + 1 = 0
And it got me thinking about…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is the AI Race lost? Perhaps.
Or will they just plug into the best language models as needed?
How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race
By The New York Times, March 16, 2023
The excitement around chatbots illustrates how Siri, Alexa and other voice…From insideHPC
Barcelona Supercomputing Center: Cellular Digital Twins for Cancer Treatment
16 March 2023 — Barcelona — The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is working towards the creation of digital twins that can virtually represent cell-level systems to computationally predict the response of potential treatments.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gene Editing Rice for Other Worlds
Wil we be living on mars
Modified rice plants could better handle Martian soil
Antony Ratcliffe in New Scientist
Gene-edited rice plants may be able to grow on Mars. Researchers have now identified a gene that,Martian…From The Eponymous Pickle
And Msoft Goes for Real World AI
Further on what Microsoft is doing in this space. Examining their offerings.
Robots let ChatGPT touch the real world thanks to Microsoft
By Benj Edwards 02/28/2023 11:20 pm Categories:Biz & IT
View non-AMP version at arstechnica…From BLOG@CACM
Why Businesses Must Untether Deep Learning
Deep learning only took a few years to make the leap from another theoretical piece of future-tech to a very real tool that's already making an impact on the business world.
From The Eponymous Pickle
GPT-4 Technical Report
Attended the GPT-4 introduction yesterday. Impressive demo and overview of new capabilities. Tech report abstract below nd link below. Some indication of power, speed, directions and risks. Somewhat weak in spefific how to…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Runtime asserts are not free
When writing software in C and C++, it is common to add C asserts to check that some conditions are satisfied at runtime. Often, it is a simple comparison between two values. In many instances, these asserts are effectively free…
From insideHPC
Sony to Launch Subscription Service for Developers on AITRIOS Edge AI Sensing Platform
SAN JOSE, March 15, 2023 — Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (SSS) today announced the launch of a new subscription service offering on its edge AI sensing platform AITRIOS in the U.S., as part of AITRIOS’s global expansion…
From insideHPC
ISC 2023 Registration Is Open
HAMBURG — March 15, 2023 – ISC 2023, the high performance computing (HPC) conference and exhibition to be held May 21-25, is now open for registration. The in-person event will be hosted at the Congress Center, Hamburg, Germany…