Communications of the ACM
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April 2023
From insideHPC
DDN and Helmholtz Munich Host May 4 Life Sciences Field Day
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – April 13, 2023 – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management company, today announced its 2023 Life Sciences Field Day, hosted by Helmholtz Munich on May 4, 2023 at the Helmholtz…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT and Bard
Nicely done piece which illustrates a number of existing tools , Open-Source examples, Several I have not heard of. Instructive.
8 Open-Source Alternatives to ChatGPT and Bard in KDNuggets
Discover the widely-used open-source…From BLOG@CACM
What Can the FATE Community Learn from the Successes and Failures in Privacy?
There are many similarities between FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics) and privacy, and I believe that there are a lot of lessons that the FATE community can learn from past work, successes, and failures in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Knowledge Connecting Language and Computation
Machine Learning Street Talk
132,828 views Mar 23, 2023 Episode #110
CHATGPT+WOLFRAM! You saw it HERE first!
ChatGPT + Wolfram: The Future of AI is Here!
Pod version: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod…From The Eponymous Pickle
Expectations for GPT-5?
Ongoing expectations
GPT-5 could soon change the world in one incredible way
By Alex Blake, March 28, 2023 in DigitalTrends
GPT-4 may have only just launched, but people are already excited about the next version of the artificial…From Schneier on Security
Bypassing a Theft Threat Model
Thieves cut through the wall of a coffee shop to get to an Apple store, bypassing the alarms in the process.
I wrote about this kind of thing in 2000, in Secrets and Lies (page 318):
My favorite example is a band of California…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
ACM Prize to Yael Kalai
Plus evocations of the roles of complexity and verification in crypto and human relations Yael Kalai has just been named the winner of the 2022 ACM Prize. She works at Microsoft Research. Today we congratulate her, say a little…
From insideHPC
NOAA, ORNL Launch 10 PFLOPS HPE Cray HPC System for Climate Research
April 12, 2023 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is launching a supercomputer dedicated to climate science research. The system is the fifth supercomputer…
From insideHPC
Doug Kothe Leaving Oak Ridge and Exascale Computing Project for Sandia
Doug Kothe, associate laboratory director for Computing and Computational Sciences (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and director of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), is leaving ORNL to become associate labs director…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Loses Sensitive Data to ChatGPT
Implications for securing your own workplace data.
Samsung Engineers Feed Sensitive Data to ChatGPT, Sparking Workplace AI Warnings
In three separate incidents, engineers at the Korean electronics giant reportedly shared sensitive…From The Eponymous Pickle
Germany Engaging Africa
Unexpected?
ACM TECHNEWS
Germany Taps Africa's IT Sector to Fill Labor Gap, By Deutsche Welle (Germany)
April 12, 2023
Students at the Innovation Lab at South Africa's University of Johannesburg learn how to develop software, algorithms…From insideHPC
Future Market Insights Report: Global HPC Market to Reach US$62B by 2032
April 12m 2023 — A report on the high-performance computing market by Future Market Insights states that the global HPC market is set to expand at 4.4 percent CAGR in the next 10 years. From US$ 40.0 billion recorded in 2022,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligence 3.0: Interview with Karl Friston, British Neuroscientist
Interesting and Thoughtful piece. Following up.
KARL J. FRISTON - INTELLIGENCE 3.0
64,533 views Mar 11, 2023
This special edition show is sponsored by Numerai, please visit them here with our…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Explainer: Foundation Models and the Next Era of AI
Using Bing GPT among others now.
AI Explainer: Foundation models and the next era of AI Published March 23, 2023
By Ahmed H. Awadallah , Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft
The release of OpenAI’s GPT-4 is a significant…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
19 random digits is not enough to uniquely identify all human beings
Suppose that you assigned everyone an 19 digit number. What is the probability that two human beings would have the same number? It is an instance of the Birthday’s paradox. Assuming that there are 8 billion people, the probability…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The CCC Releases Mid-cycle Update to the US National Robotics Roadmap
In honor of National Robotics Week, the Computing Community Consortium is releasing a mid-cycle update to the US National Robotics Roadmap. The US National Robotics Roadmap is updated every four years. Since the last update in…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Consider using constexpr static function variables for performance in C++
When programming, we often need constant variables that are used within a single function. For example, you may want to look up characters from a table. The following function is efficient: char table(int idx) { const char array…
From insideHPC
Lenovo HPC Helps Forecast Pontentially Disastrous Weather Events in Saudi Arabia
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] When people think of weather in Saudi Arabia, they probably think of dust storms before flooding. A team led by Lenovo, WeMET P.C. and the University of Connecticut worked with the Saudi National Center…
From Schneier on Security
FBI Advising People to Avoid Public Charging Stations
The FBI is warning people against using public phone-charging stations, worrying that the combination power-data port can be used to inject malware onto the devices:
Avoid using free charging stations in airports, hotels, or …From The Eponymous Pickle
Rage Against Intelligent Machines
Good overview of the topic with links to
ACM NEWS
Rage Against the Intelligent Machines
By Paul Marks, Commissioned by CACM Staff, April 11, 2023
If the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 was the point at which generative artificial…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 11 2023)
Robert Metcalfe won the Turing Award (the ‘Computer Science Nobel Prize’) for his work on early networking. According to DBLP, Metcalfe published 11 journal articles and 7 peer-review conference papers. Metcalfe was denied his…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Chatbots Sell?
Better? Better targeting? Bettter than traditional chatbots?
Do Conversational AI Chatbots Make Better Sales Non-Associates? in Retailwire.
Apr 11, 2023, by George Anderson Plus expert comments .....
Americans think that…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Better ChatGPT App? Poe wants to Build the Universal AI Messaging Client
A Better App? Poe Logo, More Coming, Quora
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/TECH/APPS
A better ChatGPT app: Poe wants to build the universal AI messaging client
The chatbot explosion is coming — but building a great chat app is harderBy…From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney Undestructable Robotics
Visited some of the Disney robotics labs long ago.
Once More, With Feeling: Exploring Relatable Robotics at Disney Disney’s newest robot uses motion (and failure) to become a charming character MORGAN POPE
This is a guest post…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Releases Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security Workshop Report
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to release the Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security Workshop Report. On August 24-25, 2022, the CCC held a visioning workshop on Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware…
From insideHPC
DOE INCITE Program Seeks 2024 Proposals for Science and Engineering at Leadership Computing Facilities
April 10, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Waiters Soon?
Some interesting examples mentioned.
Are Robot Waiters the Future? By Associated Press, April 10, 2023
A BellaBot robot delivers food and drinks to a table in the Noodle Topia restaurant in Madison Heights, MI.
Many think robot…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Challenge of Supercomputers
A Challenge:
Google Says Its AI Supercomputer with TPU v4 Chips Outperforms Nvidia's A100 in Speed By The Tech Portal (India) from CACM
April 7, 2023 Google CEO Sundar Pichai introducing the fourth generation of its Tensor…From The Eponymous Pickle
Generative AI and Proteins
Always an interest of mine, often mentioned here, approach should be interesting
Generative AI is dreaming up new proteins by Laura Howes in Cen.acs.org
April 10, 2023 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 101, Issue…From Schneier on Security
Car Thieves Hacking the CAN Bus
Car thieves are injecting malicious software into a car’s network through wires in the headlights (or taillights) that fool the car into believing that the electronic key is nearby.