Communications of the ACM
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April 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Taking Over Jobs?
Yes, No and how soon.
AI Can't Take Over Everyone's Jobs Soon (If Ever)
By IEEE Spectrum April 10, 2023
OpenAI has touted GPT-4’s ability to pass numerous standardized tests—but did the model genuinely understand the tests, or"Should…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Replacing Coding
The more examples I see the more I think so.
Will AI Replace Computer Programmers?
By Logan Kugler, Commissioned by CACM Staff, March 30, 2023
Not only do programmers work faster with AI assistance, it also frees them up to focus…From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsi Doing Technology and AI
Interesting look at Pepsi's Technology Advances
04/05/2023
Tech Transformation Podcast: PepsiCo’s Kate Garner On Consumer Insights’ Evolution
There may be no bigger priority for both retailers and consumer goods companies todayListen…From insideHPC
Silicon Photonics: Columbia Prof. Keren Bergman on the Why, How and When of a Technology that Could Transform HPC
Silicon photonics has the potential to transform HPC: it’s a dual-threat interconnect technology that could – if and when it is wrestled into commercial, cost-effective form – move data within chips and systems much faster than…
From Apophenia
Protect Elders! Ban Television!!
(Some thoughts on the efforts to regulate children’s use of social media) Have you noticed how many people ages 65+ watch television every day? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost 90% of those in this age bracket…
From insideHPC
TSMC March 2023 Revenue Report: Down 15.4% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Apr. 10, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for March 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for March 2023 was approximately NT$145.41 billion, a decrease of 10.9 percent…
From Computational Complexity
Complexity and Explainable AI
About six years ago, I posted on why it was important to understand machine learning, mentioning trust, fairness, security and causality. But I then I brought in complexity.
What if P = NP? Would that help. Actually it would makes…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Releases the Artificial Intelligence/Operations Research Workshop II Report Out
The CCC just released the 2nd Report Out in the three part Artificial Intelligence/Operations Research Visioning Workshop series. In September of 2021, the CCC along with the Institute for Operations Research and the Management…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GPT Knows Me:
GPT-3 knows me:
Franz Dill was the co-founder and brain child behind Business Intelligence driven Retail Innovation Centers at P&G that he ran for 5 years. He scouted start-ups, brought them into the contextual innovation centers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing Chat Gets Improved
Evolution occurring in this space. Have used it and does seem better.
Bing Chat is already one of the fastest and more reliable AI chat tools available, and Microsoft just made it more powerful with several significant upgrades…From Schneier on Security
LLMs and Phishing
Here’s an experiment being run by undergraduate computer science students everywhere: Ask ChatGPT to generate phishing emails, and test whether these are better at persuading victims to respond or click on the link than the usual…
From CERIAS Blog
Interview with Spaf at S4x23
If you didn’t get a chance to attend S4x23 to hear the talks, or you simply haven’t heard enough from Spaf yet, here is a recording of the keynote interview with Spaf by Dale Peterson. The interview covered a lot of ground about…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GPT 3 Knows Me
GPT-3 knows me:
Franz Dill was the co-founder and brain child behind Business Intelligence driven Retail Innovation Centers at P&G that he ran for 5 years. He scouted start-ups, brought them into the contextual innovation centers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Safe and Secure Abstractions for Secure Machine Learning
Intro
Technical Perspective: Beautiful Symbolic Abstractions for Safe and Secure Machine Learning
By Martin Vechev .. Intro
Communications of the ACM, February 2023, Vol. 66 No. 2, Page 104 10.1145/3576893
Over the last decade…From The Eponymous Pickle
Backing off the Metaverse
I would like to see another take at the Metaverse, but its not ready. Will it ever be? The alternative direction is guessable. But they has been working AI for some time. Recall Jarvis?
Mark Zuckerberg Abandons Metaverse…From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science WorkFlows with ChatGPT
Useful, in KDNuggets.
Automate the Boring Stuff with GPT-4 and Python KNuggets
Speed up your daily workflows by getting AI to write Python code in seconds.
By Natassha Selvaraj, KDnuggets on March 28, 2023 in Python
Automate the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Impacting work with Generative AI
New Report Details How Generative AI Impacts Work
Aberdeen's latest research offers insight into the ways professionals use generative AI today, as well as how AI might affect work in the future.
By Adrianna Nine March 29, 2023
…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
News you can trust
Having reliable news matters. Artificial Intelligence expert Sameena Shah gave news provider Thomson Reuters a head start with her Artificial Intelligence system for detecting fake news automatically.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Digital Wallets Save Cryptocurrency?
Can Digital Wallets Save Cryptocurrency?
ACM NEWS, By Samuel Greengard
Commissioned by CACM Staff, April 6, 2023
Specialized digital wallets are crucial for cryptocurrency because an iPhone or Android digital wallet does not deliver…From The Eponymous Pickle
Instant Videos Could Represent the Next Leap in A.I. Technology
ACM NEWS
Instant Videos Could Represent the Next Leap in A.I. Technology
By The New York Times, April 5, 2023
A.I. video generated by Runways software that depicts a cow at a birthday party.
Systems like the one Runway has created…From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Revises its Supply-Chain Strategy
Walmart Revises its Supply-Chain Strategy
TWO PEOPLE PUSH A SHOPPING CART THROUGH A STORE, ONE WEARING A CAPE BEARING THE WALMART LOGO
Photo: Bloomberg
April 6, 2023 in SupplyChainBrain
Walmart is stepping up investments in supply…From The Eponymous Pickle
And Now it seems, there is more
Microsoft Edge Adds AI Images with Dall-E, There will no end to amusement, imagery and more.
Microsoft Edge now lets you create AI images using the power of Dall-E
By David Nield published about 2 hours ago
Try your best prompts…From The Eponymous Pickle
Nicely Done 25 Page NVIDIA Free Intro E Book on Large Language Models
Nicely done 25-age EBook on an Enterprise Guide to Large Language Models
Everything an enterprise needs to know about LLMs.
What’s Included In This eBook?
A comprehensive background on what LLMs are, how they work…From The Eponymous Pickle
Clothing Checks itself Out
Embedded Self Checkout
Asia’s biggest clothing retailer uses mini RFID chips to power self-checkout
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL in Retailwire 04/07/2023
https://retailwire.com/asias-biggest-clothing-retailer-uses-mini-rfid-chips…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Food Poisoning
University of Connecticut basketball player Jordan Hawkins claims to have suffered food poisoning from calamari the night before his NCAA finals game. The restaurant disagrees:
On Sunday, a Mastro’s employee politely cast doubt…From The Eponymous Pickle
Do We Get the $100 Trillion AI Windfall? Sam Altman's Plans: Finding Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3o1MW2G5Rs
Do We Get the $100 Trillion AI Windfall? Sam Altman's Plans, Jobs & the Falling Cost of Intelligence
On AI Explained 112K subscribers
99,988 views Apr 6, 2023
As Sam Altman predicted…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Watson Emerges, Again
After having been following the IBM Watson effort from its very beginning, it appears to be emerging via advertising again. See my mentions of 'IBM Watson' in this blog. My enterprise was approached by IBM, as a possible…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and human error: Root Causes and Mitigation Strategies
Unintentional Human errors and Mitigation Strategies
Excerpt.
AI and human error: Root causes and mitigation strategies in Venturebeat
Taylor Hersom, Eden Data, April 7, 2023
Algorithms and doorway concept with wavy and…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests
GitHub is probably the most popular software repository in the world. One important feature on GitHub is the ‘pull request’: we often contribute to a piece of software by proposing changes to a piece of code. The number of pull…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Object-oriented pizza at the end of the universe
Object-oriented programming is a popular kind of programming. To understand what it is all about it can help to think about cooking a meal (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy style) where the meal cooks itself.