Communications of the ACM
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April 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Changing its Tone
We talked to them, considering it a means to better manage internal resources.
How LinkedIn is changing and why some are not happy
By Michael Dempsey the BBC
Technology of Business reporter
Social media is where we project aIn…From Schneier on Security
EFF on the UN Cybercrime Treaty
EFF has a good explainer on the problems with the new UN Cybercrime Treaty, currently being negotiated in Vienna.
The draft treaty has the potential to rewrite criminal laws around the world, possibly adding over 30 criminal…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Avatars Getting Reading
How soon, how good?
YOUR ROBOTIC AVATAR IS ALMOST READY in Spectrum IEEE By Evan Ackerman
What the Avatar XPrize revealed about the future of telepresence robots
ROBOTS ARE NOT READY for the real world. It’s still an achievement…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
An Award For Ellen Zegura
Ellen Zegura was just honored with the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award. The Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award recognizes outstanding achievement in teaching, research, and service. It is the highest honor…
From insideHPC
ISC 2023 Announces Keynotes for Tuesday and Wednesday, May 23 and 24
HAMBURG – ISC 2023 has announced Tuesday and Wednesday (May 23 and 24) conference keynotes. ISC 2023 will be held at the Congress Center Hamburg from May 21 – 25. The Tuesday keynote will be delivered by Google Principal Engineer…
From insideHPC
NERSC: Successor to Perlmutter AI Supercomputer Must Deliver 40 ExaFLOPS Mixed Precision
Last August, NERSC (the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced its intent to commission “NERSC-10,” a next-generation supercomputer to be delivered “in the 2026…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ada Debuts Generative AI Customer Service Automation
We will see much more of this in coming years
Ada Debuts Generative AI Customer Service Automation
Voicebot.ai by Eric Hal Schwartz / April 18, 2023
Customer service automation startup Ada has introduced a new set of generative…From BLOG@CACM
ChatGPT Helps or Hurts our Cybersecurity?
The specter is that when fully mature, this technology would be able to generate undetectable attacks and the defenders will be constantly fighting these fires. I do not subscribe to this dystopian view of the future.
From insideHPC
@HPCpodast: Supercomputing Strategists Look out 20 Years at the Post-Exascale HPC Future
Post-exascale supercomputing for the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration) is the subject of a new report by a distinguished review committee comprised of notable supercomputing experts, three of whom presented their…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching BabyAGI
Inevitable and scary? Agents teaching your models bottom up.
Auto-GPT and BabyAGI: How ‘autonomous agents’ are bringing generative AI to the masses
Autonomous agents may mark an important step toward a world where AI-driven systems…From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence
Quite New too me, interesting shows alternative approaches. Worth a look.
A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence
Anil Ananthaswamy, Contributing Writer, QuantaMagazine
By imbuing enormous vectors with…From The Eponymous Pickle
Musk's 'TruthGBT' being talked
Much talk about thisnow, but what will it mean?
Elon Musk's 'TruthGPT' is coming, but will it be any different from other chatbots?
By Muskaan Saxena in TechRadar
Elon Musk has shared more details about his rumoured and much anticipated…From The Eponymous Pickle
LLMs and Bioweapons
Bruce Schneier reports:
Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons?
I’m not sure there are good ways to build guardrails to prevent this sort of thing:
There is growing concern regarding the potential misuse of molecular machine learning…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ian Hogarth Says Slow Down in The Financial Times
He writes: We must slow down the race to God-like AI
I’ve invested in more than 50 artificial intelligence start-ups. What I’ve seen worries me
Ian Hogarth, APRIL 13 2023
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the…From Schneier on Security
Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons
I’m not sure there are good ways to build guardrails to prevent this sort of thing:
There is growing concern regarding the potential misuse of molecular machine learning models for harmful purposes. Specifically, the dual-use…From insideHPC
SafeGuard Raises $8M for AI to Predict Worksite Accidents
Tel Aviv — April 17th, 2023 — SafeGuard, a company that uses machine learning to predict worksite accidents in the construction industry, today announced an $8 million Series A funding round led by hi-tech investors Ron Zuckerman…
From Putting People First
New Reuters Institute Report on distrust in the news by disadvantaged communities
Why do disadvantaged communities distrust the news? And what can newsrooms do about it? These are the questions at the heart of a new report by the Reuters Institute Trust in News Project.
From Putting People First
[Book] The Smartness Mandate
What exactly is “smartness,” and how and why has it come to be not only a desirable goal, but something that must be implemented everywhere?
From Geeking with Greg
The biggest threat to Google
Nico Grant at the New York Times writes that Google is furiously adding features to its web search, including personalized search and personalized information recommendations, in an "panic" that "A.I. competitors like the new…
From insideHPC
QC Ware Launches Promethium for Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Materials Discovery
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 18, 2023 — QC Ware, a provider of chemistry simulation and machine learning solutions, today announced the release of Promethium, a modern software-as-a-service (SaaS) quantum chemistry platform designed…
From insideHPC
Torsten Hoefler Named First Winner of Jack Dongarra Early Career Award
HAMBURG, April 17, 2023 – Professor Torsten Hoefler of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, has been named the inaugural Jack Dongarra Early Career Award recipient. This award acknowledges his significant contributions to converging high…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back A.I. Rivals
Been thinking about the interaction of Google and the changing AI world. I can see how they may lose if basic search is better served by chat oriented methods. I see myself now going beyond simple search because I can get…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI as an Agent and More
Thinking agents and more, lot of definitional info in links below, following up definitions:
If you thought the pace of AI development had sped up since the release of ChatGPT last November, well, buckle up. Thanks to the rise…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Region News: Europe
The 10th ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage™ 2023 is under way! This year the event is hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, 20-22 September 2023, under the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does Virtual Fitting Room Tech Discourage Sales?
Worked on the concept.
Does Virtual Fitting Room Tech Discourage Sales?
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by Tom Ryan, University research finds virtual fitting rooms aren’t “uniformly positive” for customers, particularly those customers…From insideHPC
ALCF Digital Twins Webinar on April 19: How HPC is Personalizing the Future for Complex Systems
April 17, 2023 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a live streamed webinar on digital twins and HPC on Wednesday, April 19 from 3 to 3:40 pm Eastern Time. The webinar will be presented by Karen E. Willcox, director…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Above and Beyond Scholarship – Adriana Wilde, PhD
Year of Scholarship and Conference Attendance: ICST 2013 7th International Conference on Sensing Technology Country of Origin: Venezuela Country of residence at the time of receiving the ACM-W Scholarship: United Kingdom Dr…
From Schneier on Security
Swatting as a Service
Motherboard is reporting on AI-generated voices being used for “swatting”:
In fact, Motherboard has found, this synthesized call and another against Hempstead High School were just one small part of a months-long, nationwide…From The Noisy Channel
Effective Query Triage
Search evaluation requires a variety of strategies.
Evaluating search experiments, such as A/B tests, should focus on the size and direction of their impact.
Alerting and monitoring focus on detecting anomalies in normally stable…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Solving problems you care about
Programmable design challenge: sixth formers on @QMUL's summer internship came up with creative solutions to solve real world problems.