Communications of the ACM
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April 2023
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Schoolbook Error/Discovery
Liam Squires is a fifth-grader at Virginia’s HM Pearson Elementary. He is now famous—after a story that is in print in today’s Sunday New York Times. Squires saw that the diagrams of igneous and sedimentary rocks had the wrong…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Potential Impact of Large Language Models on Jobs
As usual a great piece by Irving Wladawsky-Berger here, I am following through. Lots of good links, but these are available through the link below.
The Potential Impact of Large Language Models on Jobs
Throughout the Industrial…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Brains: Neurosymbolics
Thoughtful piece that outlines what is necessary for Building Future Intelligence. Not sure that current results are yet close to this. Year old. Technical.
Neurosymbolic Models
86,914 views Sep…From Geeking with Greg
Ubiquitous fake crowds
The Washington Post writes: "The Russian government has become far more successful at manipulating social media and search engine rankings than previously known, boosting ... [propaganda] with hundreds of thousands of fake online…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How ChatGPT and Similar AI will Disrupt Education
Clearly a strong connection to elements of education.
How ChatGPT and Similar AI will Disrupt Education
By ScienceNews, April 14, 2023
Students are turning to ChatGPT for homework help. Educators have mixed feelings about the tool…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (April 15 2023)
Some university professor include ‘trigger warnings’ in their course material, to warn students that potentially disturbing content may be encountered. According to Birdgland et al., the research on the effectiveness of trigger…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What are Foundation Models?
Foundation models are AI neural networks trained on massive unlabeled datasets to handle a wide variety of jobs from translating text to analyzing medical images.
March 13, 2023 by RICK MERRITT
The mics…From The Eponymous Pickle
Snake Robot
New locations to explore
Nasa-JPL snake robot explores extreme terrain
Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing an exobiology extant life surveyor (EELS). It was conceived to explore diverse terrains and ultimately search…From The Eponymous Pickle
Record Network Sync Beyween National Labs
Record Network Sync Between National Labs
PRESS RELEASE | ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY
Quantum network between two national labs achieves record synch
BY JOHN SPIZZIRRI| JUNE 27, 2022 in anl.gov
Quantum collaboration demonstratesTo…From The Eponymous Pickle
Siemens Metaverse Leak
Was Unaware of Siemens Metaverse, but here an example. Was this connected to ChatGPT use? In SecurityAffairs. NVIDIA Connection.
Siemens Metaverse, a virtual space built to mirror real machines, factories, and other highly…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Parks
Nice move, soon to be there.
Finally, it’s easier to navigate national parks using Google Maps inTheVerge
Soon, it won’t be so painful to find your way around a national park using Google Maps.
parks with Google Maps. The updates…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Goes After Cybercriminals
Someone needs to.
Microsoft Teams Up to Take Legal Action Against Cybercriminals
Microsoft, Fortra, and others allied to obtain a court order to disrupt cracked copies of software used in ransomware attacks.
By Carrie Pallardy…From The Eponymous Pickle
Elon Musk founds new AI Company Called X.AI
Musk moves into the space.
Elon Musk founds new AI company called X.AI
Story by Jay Peters and Emma Roth • Yesterday 6:32 PM
Elon Musk has created a new company dedicated to artificial intelligence — and it’s called X.AI, asRumors…From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT-4 Gets B on Quantum Information Science Final
Not quite a Quantum A?
Receives ‘B’ on Scott Aaronson’s Quantum Information Science Final — Immediately Emails the Dean Seeking a Better Grade
BY MATT SWAYN
Insider Brief
ChatGPT-4 registered a score that’s equivalent of a B inThe…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Colossal Squid
Interesting article on the colossal squid, which is larger than the giant squid.
The article answers a vexing question:
So why do we always hear about the giant squid and not the colossal squid?
Well, part of it has to do with…From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Suicide
Here’s a religious hack:
You want to commit suicide, but it’s a mortal sin: your soul goes straight to hell, forever. So what you do is murder someone. That will get you executed, but if you confess your sins to a priest beforehand…From insideHPC
Purdue Computes Initiative Includes Institute of Physical AI and Semiconductor Facilities Expansion
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 14, 2023 – Purdue University has announced Purdue Computes, an initiative consisting of three dimensions. The first pillar of Purdue Computes is investment in Purdue’s computing faculty: The Department…
From insideHPC
Dell HPC Strategist Jay Beausseau to Leave Company
Jay Boisseau, a senior HPC strategist at Dell Technologies for more than eight years, has announced on LinkedIn that he is leaving the company “to get back to my geek roots and dive more deeply into the erupting field of AI (as…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Interfaces are not free in Go
We are all familiar with the concept even if we are not aware of it: when you learn about arithmetic in school, you use the same mathematical symbols whether you are dealing with integers, fractions or real numbers. In software…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: Natural General Intelligence: How Understanding the Brain can Help us Build AI
Brain Building AI
Natural General Intelligence: How understanding the brain can help us build AI
by Christopher Summerfield (Author)
Since the time of Turing, computer scientists have dreamed of building artificial general intelligence…From The Eponymous Pickle
Photonics and AI
Fiber Optics and computing
Stephen Cass: Hi, I’m Stephen Cass, for IEEE Spectrum’s Fixing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digi Dogs back in NYC
I had mentioned that the 'DigiDogs robotic police had been rejected by big city police. Now they are being brought back in.
ACM NEWS
'Digidog Is Out of the Pound': Robot Dog Rejoins New York Police By Bloomberg
April 12, 2023…From insideHPC
D-Wave Quantum Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2022 Results
BURNABY, British Columbia & PALO ALTO, Calif.– Quantum computing systems and software company D-Wave Quantum Inc., (NYSE: QBTS) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.…
From Schneier on Security
Gaining an Advantage in Roulette
You can beat the game without a computer:
On a perfect [roulette] wheel, the ball would always fall in a random way. But over time, wheels develop flaws, which turn into patterns. A wheel that’s even marginally tilted could develop…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS Panel Recaps: Sustaining Computing Research Communities in a Hybrid World
Continuing in our AAAS panel recaps, the CCC hosted a panel titled, “Sustaining Computing Research Communities in a Hybrid World”. The panelists were Brent Hecht (Microsoft), Richard Ladner (University of Washington), and Cristina…
From insideHPC
Samsung Joins OpenMP Architecture Review Board
Beaverton, Oregon — The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) today announced that Samsung has joined the board. The OpenMP ARB is a group of hardware and software vendors and research organizations creating the standard for…
From insideHPC
Sony Makes Edge AI Investment in Raspberry Pi
TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, UK, April 12, 2023 — Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (“SSS”) and Raspberry Pi Ltd. (“RPL”) today announced the agreement by SSS to make a strategic investment in RPL to provide a development platform…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Effectiveness of Security Measures
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Technical Perspective: The Effectiveness of Security Measures
By Nicolas Christin
Communications of the ACM, September 2022, Vol. 65 No. 9, Page 92 10.1145/3547132
In the late 1990s, we came to the realization…From Computational Complexity
My Week at Simons
This week finds me at the Simons Institute for Theoretical Computer Science in Berkeley California. Simons started about the same time I joined the administrative ranks and never had the opportunity to spend a full semester there…