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 BLOG@CACM
GPT-4's Successes, and GPT-4's Failures
How GPT-4 fits into the larger tapestry of the quest for artificial general intelligence.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Prompt Engineers?
I have seen mention in Youtube a tendency underway to create 'ideal' prompts to get the most out of a particular interaction with a ChatGPT and other chatbots. Now, this is apparently a hire-able skill, which surprisedSome…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IFTF's Post Financial Futures Forecasts using GPT-3
Worked for years with IFTF (Institute for the Future) in the enterprise.
The Institute for the Future passes along this new GPT-3 Forecast Model, a nice use example. I will pass along additional findings.
From IFTF:
We also conducted…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Computing Community Consortium Hosts 6 Panels at the 2023 AAAS Annual Meeting
On March 2-5, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) Annual Meeting was held in Washington, DC. AAAS was founded in 1848 on the principle of supporting and highlighting scientific research at the national…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Spot the difference – modelling how humans see the world
Can you spot the difference?
From insideHPC
OpenAI Annouces GPT-4, Scores in Top 10% on Bar Exam
San Francisco — March 14, 2023 — Whatever your initial impression were of ChatGPT, the capabilities of the generative AI application from OpenAI appear poised to move significantly forward. The company has announced a follow-up…
From insideHPC
MIT: New Method Uses ML to Accelerate Data Retrieval in Large Databases
CAMBRIDGE, MA — March 14, 2023 — Researchers from MIT and other institutions report that a “hash function” — a core database search operation — can be significantly accelerated through the use of machine learning. The hope is…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
In Memoriam: Former CRA Board Member William Wulf
The below post was originally published in the CRA Bulletin. Bill Wulf was a friend and supporter of the CCC during his many years in the computing research community. His wife, Anita Jones, was a Founding Member of the CCC and…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
From The Eponymous Pickle
Greg Brockman of OpenAI Talks today on GPT-4 at 4 PM ET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=outcGtbnMuQ
26,739 waiting Scheduled for Mar 14, 2023
Join Greg Brockman, President and Co-Founder of OpenAI, at 1 pm PT for a developer demo showcasing GPT-4 and some of its capabilities/limitations…From The Eponymous Pickle
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and OpenAI
We did some work with them in the 90s. No AI orientation as I recall. Now with OpenAI ...
BCG (Boston Consulting Group) is collaborating with OpenAI to help our clients realize the power of OpenAI technologies and solve the…From insideHPC
Study Says Companies Lack Resources to Deliver Enterprise AI/ML Goals
SAN FRANCISCO – March 14, 2023 – Domino Data Lab, provider of an enterprise MLOps platform, has released a industry report, “Build A Winning AI Offense: C-Level Strategies for an ML-Fueled Revenue Engine.” The study determined…
From insideHPC
MathWorks and Green Hills Software Develop Integration for Safety-Related Applications Using Infineon AURIX Microcontrollers
NATICK, Mass., and SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 14, 2023 — MathWorks, developer of mathematical computing software, and Green Hills Software, an embedded software safety and security company, announced an integration that helps…
From insideHPC
RISC-V Chip Maker SiFive Joins OpenMP Review Board
Beaverton, Oregon — March 14, 2023 — SiFive has joined the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB), a group of hardware vendors, software vendors and research organizations, in creating the standard for the OpenMP shared-memory…
From Schneier on Security
How AI Could Write Our Laws
By Nathan E. Sanders & Bruce Schneier
Nearly 90% of the multibillion-dollar federal lobbying apparatus in the United States serves corporate interests. In some cases, the objective of that money is obvious. Google pours millions…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Recommendations for CS People
tl;dr Book recommendations:
- Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering
- Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
From insideHPC
Hyperview Appoints Bill Kleyman to Advisory Board
VANCOUVER — March 14, 2023 Hyperview, a cloud-based data center infrastructure management (DCIM) platform provider, has named award-winning industry analyst Bill Kleyman to its advisory board. Kleyman, who has spent more than…
From Schneier on Security
NetWire Remote Access Trojan Maker Arrested
From Brian Krebs:
A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords.…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Is Pi Informative?
Some musings on the meanings of information content SF Exploratorium tribute Frank Oppenheimer was a physicist who made pioneering studies of cosmic rays via high-altitude balloons in the late 1940s. He was later the founding…
From insideHPC
Microsoft Introduces Generative AI VM on Azure with Scaling up to Thousands of GPUs
Microsoft today introduced the ND H100 v5 VM on the Azure cloud, a virtual machine for development generative AI applications. The VM can scale from eight to thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs with Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking,…
From insideHPC
Sutharshan Named ORNL Deputy for Operations
March 13, 2023 — Oak Ridge, TN — Balendra Sutharshan has been named chief operating officer for Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He will begin serving as ORNL’s deputy for operations and as executive vice president, operations,…
From Computational Complexity
Problems we assume are hard. Are they?
We think SAT is hard because (1) its NPC, and (2) many years of effort have failed to get it into P.
Imagine a world where we didn't have the Cook-Levin Theorem. We may still think SAT is hard. We may even take it as a hardness…From insideHPC
CSC (Home of LUMI) to Host Data Lake for Destination Earth Initiative
The CSC data center in Kajaani, Finland, will host a 30-petabyte data lake for the European Meteorological Satellite Agency EUMETSAT and the Destination Earth initiative. The DestinE Data Lake service will be supplied by cloud…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ideal EV Batteries for Automotive
Very nice piece, below a bare intro ...
The EV Battery Wish List Which automakers most want what in their ideal electric powertrain? by Lawrence Ulrich in IEEE Spectrum
Electric cars barely existed in 2010, when the Tesla Model…From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT in Cars?
MS Chat Virtual Assistants in cars?
ChatGPT could power voice assistants in General Motors vehicles
The automaker is reportedly using Microsoft’s Azure cloud service and OpenAI’s tech to develop a new virtual vehicle assistant…From The Eponymous Pickle
Do We Need a National Algorithms Safety Board?
Safety is yes, means of determining that is the issue. Especially with regard to transportation and related supply chain decisions and risks.
Do We Need a National Algorithms Safety Board?
By The Hill, February 28, 2023, A…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Responds to RFI on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan
CCC submitted a response to a Request for Information (RFI) released by Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), National Coordination Office (NCO), and National Science Foundation (NSF) on the…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Inspiring Wendy Hall
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London This article is inspired by a keynote talk Wendy Hall gave at the ITiCSE conference in Madrid, 2008. What inspires researchers to dedicate their lives to study one area? In theContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optical Algorithm Simplifies Analog AI Training
Thinking this, possibilities and implications.
Optical Algorithm Simplifies Analog AI Training When backpropagation loses its bite, this approach may substitute ... in IEEE Spectrum
Researchers have developed a range ofTheir…From The Eponymous Pickle
VR Headset Gives you X-Ray Vision!
Possibilities are considerable in VRworld
MIT researchers invented an augmented reality headset that gives humans X-ray vision. The invention, dubbed X-AR, combines wireless sensing with computer vision to enable users to seeFor…