Communications of the ACM
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April 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA Text to Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30epFM6Vb0s
147,333 views Apr 19, 2023 #chatgpt #AI #Robotics
NVIDIA's NEW AI 'Text To Video Takes the Industry By STORM! (NOW UNVEILED!)
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/VideoLDM/
Welcome…From The Eponymous Pickle
Free MIT Press Book on Deep Learning
An MIT Press book
Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville
The Deep Learning textbook is a resource intended to help students and practitioners enter the field of machine learning…From insideHPC
Registration Is Underway for RMACC Annual HPC Symposium, May 16-18
BOULDER, CO, April 21, 2023 – The final program has been set for the 13th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) HPC symposium, set for May 16-18 at SkySong, the Arizona State University Scottsdale Innovation…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Will emerging artificial intelligence boost research productivity?
Bryan Caplan, an economist, raised an interesting question on Twitter: why aren’t people celebrating the fact that tools like GPT might soon allow us to produce many more research papers at the same cost, without sacrificingContinue…
From Schneier on Security
Using the iPhone Recovery Key to Lock Owners Out of Their iPhones
This a good example of a security feature that can sometimes harm security:
Apple introduced the optional recovery key in 2020 to protect users from online hackers. Users who turn on the recovery key, a unique 28-digit code,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Pentagon and Joint Operations
Worked there long before such applications could be reasonably considered. How/why is quite interesting and inevitable.
Pentagon AI center shifts focus to joint war-fighting operations in https://www.c4isrnet.com/
By Nathan Strout…From The Eponymous Pickle
Should we fear the Hyena Code?
This new technology could blow away GPT-4 and everything like it
The Hyena code is able to handle amounts of data that make GPT-style technology run out of memory and fail.
Written by Tiernan Ray, Contributing Writer on April 20…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Music Generation
And more.
Google’s AI music generator is like ChatGPT for audio
It can write 5-minute songs based on short text prompts.
By Kristin Houser, April 17, 2023
Google has unveiled an advanced AI music generator that can turn a snippet…From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Players Continue to Advance AI
From Google, Implications? Beyond chat?
April 20, 2023
Earlier today we announced some changes that will accelerate our progress in AI and help us develop more capable AI systems safely and responsibly…From Computational Complexity
Health Tech
On Tuesday, at the behest of an alumnus, I spent the afternoon at HIMSS, a large health tech conference being held at the big convention center in Chicago. When I think of Health Tech, I imagine fancy medical devices, but most…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Defining interfaces in C++: concepts versus inheritance
In a previous blog post, I showed how you could define ‘an interface’ in C++ using concepts. For example, I can specify that a type should have the methods has_next, next and reset: template <typename T> concept is_iterable =…
From insideHPC
Oak Ridge Lab Study Seeks to Define Quantum Compression
April 19, 2023 — A study led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers identifies a new potential application in quantum computing that could be part of the next computational revolution, according to the lab. The study surveys…
From Putting People First
[Book] Interfaces and Us
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When society relies on computer models and their interfaces to explain and predict everything from love to geopolitical conflicts, our own behaviour and choices are artificially changed. Zachary Kaiser explores the harmful social…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS Panel Recaps: Improving Mental Health and Supporting Self-regulation with Technology
Mental well-being is essential to a happy life, and especially with the stresses of the pandemic heightening the mental health crisis plaguing the US and the world, research on ways technology can improve mental health has never…
From insideHPC
SK hynix Says It Has Developed First 12-Layer HBM3
Seoul, April 20, 2023 – SK hynix Inc. announced today it has become the industry’s first to develop 12-layer HBM3 product with a 24 gigabyte (GB) memory capacity, currently the largest in the industry, and said customers’ performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will Generative AI Shape Retail Customer Service?
Good overview...
How Will Generative AI Shape Retail Customer Service by Tom Ryan in Retailwire
Customer service reps (CSRs) continue to land on lists of the top ten jobs at risk due to advances in conversational artificial intelligence…From The Eponymous Pickle
Position of IBM Watson Assistant
Revisiting this. We were closely connected with IBM on their excellent earlier efforts. I get the feeling they are now scrambling now. Looking to see this closely, to follow.
Watson Assistant: Build better virtual agents…From insideHPC
Neurala Announces Availability of Brain Builder on Sony AITRIOS Marketplace
Boston, Trieste and Hannover, Germany – April 20th, 2023 – Vision AI software company Neurala announced the availability of a new version of the company’s development software, Brain Builder, in the Sony Semiconductor Solutions…
From insideHPC
Swedish Researchers Use Error Mitigation Technique to Apply Quantum Computing to Chemistry
April 20, 2023 — Researchers at Chalmers University have announced that for the first time in Sweden, a quantum computer has been used for calculations within a real-life case in chemistry using a method called Reference-State…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and the Disruption of Education
The topic has often been mentioned. Adaptations are under under way. In ScienceNews.
It’s no wonder other tech companies have been racing to put out competing tools. Anthropic, an AI company founded by former OpenAI employees…From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Perplexity AI showing us the future of search?
Future of Search?
Is Perplexity AI showing us the future of search?
Perplexity hopes to carve out a slice of the massive web search market that Google has so thoroughly dominated for 30 years.
By Mark Sullivan in FastCompany
Google…From Schneier on Security
New Zero-Click Exploits Against iOS
CitizenLab has identified three zero-click exploits against iOS 15 and 16. These were used by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in 2022, and deployed by Mexico against human rights defenders. These vulnerabilities have all been patched…
From Putting People First
The problem with cashless payments
Certain types of means of payment now seem indispensable for full participation in socioeconomic activity, yet they’re not necessarily available to everyone.
From BLOG@CACM
How Is History Shaping My Ph.D. Research? Unexpectedly!
Unexpected events can be viewed as good opportunities to gain new insights about a research topic.
From insideHPC
Commercialising Quantum Global Conference to be Held in London on May 17
LONDON, April 19, 2023 — The 2023 version of the Commercialising Quantum Global conference, held for the first-time last year by The Economist Group, will take place again in London on Wednesday, May 17, featuring discussions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demystifying LLMs with Amazon distinguished scientists
Good piece
Demystifying LLMs with Amazon distinguished scientists
April 18, 2023 • 2419 words
Werner, Sudipta, and Dan behind the scenes
Last week, I had a chance to chat with Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of database, analytics and…From The Noisy Channel
Exploring Search Intent as a Duality
Most of us who work on search focus on its engineering or product aspects. But I feel it’s valuable to also look at search philosophically. I’m no expert on philosophy, but I’ll do my best to describe what I see as a fascinating…
From insideHPC
Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service for Unstructured Data Storage Now Available
SEATTLE– April 18, 2023 – Qumulo has announced Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service is now generally available from the Microsoft Azure portal. Companies can provision the service on demand to power file-based workloads
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From The Eponymous Pickle
How Artificial Intelligence is Matching Drugs to Patients
Considerable direction, following.
How artificial intelligence is matching drugs to patients in the BBC
Published,2 days ago, By Natalie Lisbona, Business reporter, Tel Aviv
Dr Talia Cohen Solal sits down at a microscope to look…From The Eponymous Pickle
Commercial Sat Constellations
Been following for some time, Current and future plans. Have watched many launches. Ultimate data leverage goals
In McKinsey: Expectations versus reality: Commercial-satellite constellations
April 14, 2023 | Commentary
By …