Communications of the ACM
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April 2023
From insideHPC
NSF Launches $9.5M Opportunity to Support NSF Innovation Engines
April 27, 2023 — The U.S. National Science Foundation is seeking one or more organizations to develop, launch and run a Builder Platform to support the anticipated NSF Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, awardees. The…
From insideHPC
Simulating a More Detailed Universe with Frontier Exascale HPC
A trio of new cosmological simulation codes was unveiled in presentations at the annual April Meeting of the American Physical Society in Minneapolis by Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Director of Science, Bronson Messer…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Hotspot performance engineering fails
Developers often believe that software performance follows a Pareto distribution: 80% of the running time is spent in 20% of the code. Using this model, you can write most of your code without any care for performance and focus…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do Retailers Need to Have the AI Talk With Consumers?
Likely not, but since its easy to do expect some tests
Do Retailers Need to Have the AI Talk With Consumers? by Tom Ryan in RetailWire
Recent surveys show consumers are interested in but also increasingly concerned about potential…From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Elects New Leadership to Continue Building a Multilingual Internet
By the UASG The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has elected a new Chair and three new Vice Chairs as its leadership team. Made up of representatives from more than 120 companies, governments, and community groups, …
From Schneier on Security
Security Risks of AI
Stanford and Georgetown have a new report on the security risks of AI—particularly adversarial machine learning—based on a workshop they held on the topic.
Jim Dempsey, one of the workshop organizers, wrote a blog post on the…From The Eponymous Pickle
GBTChat in Business Doing More or Less than Expected?
Interesting example here.
A Case case of GPTChat doing less than expected?
Causes? Next? Mostly positive, but the interviewer completely skeptical.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Published April 26, 2023 5:00pm EDT
AI set to transform…From insideHPC
Intel Announces Deepak Patil to Head Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group
Intel said today that Deepak Patil will serve as corporate vice president and general manager of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) group. Patil recently held the position of chief technology and strategy officer…
From Computational Complexity
Comic Book Alignment
Talk about AI "alignment" makes me think of a time in the 1950s that a group of companies decided to
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Reports and Whitepapers Released in April
April was a big month for the Computing Community Consortium, releasing two workshop reports and one white paper on pressing topics within the computing research community. Overviews of each, as well as individual links to corresponding…
From Apophenia
Too Big to Challenge?
I find it deeply disturbing that the tech industry represents 9% of the U.S. GDP and only five Big Tech companies account for 25% of the S&P 500. Prior to Covid, most of the growth in stock market came from Big Tech (not the…
From insideHPC
Swiss Vault Joins Active Archive Alliance
BOULDER, Colo., April 26, 2023 – The Active Archive Alliance today announced that Swiss Vault has joined the organization. The Active Archive Alliance is a collaboration of industry-leading storage and IT vendors that collectively…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What's Behind the ChatGPT History Change?
Apparently some considerable changes/interpretations of data and use in Europe and Beyond. And to some degree preventing the use of your data for training. May be quite restrictive in practice.
https://youtu.be/ivexBzomPv4?list…From insideHPC
Customer Cosmos by Tredence Wins 2023 Data Breakthrough Award
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 26, 2023 – Tredence, a data science and AI solutions company, today announced that its Customer Cosmos solution was named “Data Visualization Solution of the Year” in the fourth annual Data Breakthrough…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Unilever Expedites Product Innovation, AI, Automation and Robots
We saw similar trial adoption in the 80s and 90s.
How Unilever Expedites Product Innovation, AI, Automation and Robotics
Liz Dominguez
Image Unilever Dove
Robots are having a heavy hand in product innovation at Unilever, thanks…From insideHPC
Fraunhofer IIS/EAS Selects Achronix Embedded FPGAs (eFPGAs) to Build Heterogeneous Chiplet Demonstrator for HPC
Santa Clara, Calif., and Dresden, Germany, April 25, 2023 – Fraunhofer IIS/EAS, an applied research institute in advanced package solution design, and Achronix Semiconductor Corporation, a supplier of FPGAs and eFPGA IP solutions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Leverage AI for Substantial Business Value
Irving Wladawsky-Berger does his usual good job, I remind you that there are many links below that are worth looking at, so do click through to get it all. I have gotten many versions of the question below over the years.
How…From Schneier on Security
AI to Aid Democracy
There’s good reason to fear that A.I. systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated argument. People might fall down political rabbit holes, taken…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Vectorized trimming of line comments
A French graduate student reached out by email yesterday with the following problem. Consider a format such as TOML which has line comments: when a ‘#’ character is encountered, the rest of the line is omitted. Let us look at…
From insideHPC
UK Announces £100M for AI Foundation Model Taskforce
London, April 24, 2023 — The UK government has announced £100 million budgeted to kickstart delivery of the country’s capability in safe and reliable AI foundation models, including lage language models. The taskforce, modelled…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How AI Is Building the Next Blockbuster Videogames
Building better yet Video Games with AI. And how might we build better yet games that represent a means for constructing embedded games that solve for true value reports. Seeing the opportunity for that.
How AI Is Building the…From insideHPC
U.S. Quantum Information Science Summer School Issues Call for Applications – April 28 Deadline
April 25, 2023 – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Quantum Information Science Summer School (USQIS) is the first joint summer school facilitated by the five DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centers: C2QA, QSA…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF FY2024 Request: President Biden Calls for Another Strong Budget for NSF
Originally posted by Brian Mosley on the Computing Research Policy Blog In our continuing series of posts on the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request, we turn to the National Science Foundation. As he…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers From Google AI and UC Berkeley Propose an AI Approach That Teaches LLMs to Debug
By Aneesh Tickoo -April 14, 2023 in MarketTech
Producing accurate code in a singleIt…From The Eponymous Pickle
Deloitte Trends Excerpts
Been a while since I have taken a look a Deloitte trends work. Had several connections there. Here is a short overview of the latest, worth a further look.
Tech Trends 2023, The technology forces shaping tomorrow
Deloitte Insights…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Power of Low-Power GPS Receivers for Nanosats
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Technical Perspective: The Power of Low-Power GPS Receivers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Gates Says AI Will Teach Literacy
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tech Industry Pioneer Sees Way for U.S. to Lead in Advanced Chips
Worked with IvanSutherland way back when.
ACM TECHNEWS
Tech Industry Pioneer Sees Way for U.S. to Lead in Advanced Chips
By The New York Times, April 21, 2023
Ivan Sutherland was instrumental in helping to create todays dominant…From The Eponymous Pickle
Costs of Chat
Aaron Mok
ChatGPT could cost OpenAI up to $700,000 a day to run due to "expensive servers," an analyst told The Information…From Schneier on Security
Cyberweapons Manufacturer QuaDream Shuts Down
Following a report on its activities, the Israeli spyware company QuaDream has shut down.
This was QuadDream:
Key Findings
Based on an analysis of samples shared with us by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, we developed indicators…