Communications of the ACM
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April 2023
From insideHPC
Oak Ridge Lab Names Michael Parks Director of Computer Science and Mathematics Division
Oak Ridge, TN — The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has named Michael Parks director of the Computer Science and Mathematics Division within ORNL’s Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate. His hiring…
From Putting People First
An anthropology of algorithmic recommendation systems
In this book meet the people who design the algorithms that capture our musical tastes.
From Putting People First
New European Commission study on how digital advertising impacts privacy, publishers and advertisers
This study has collated evidence which on balance indicates a strong case to reform digital advertising. It indicates that the status quo is unsustainable for individuals, publishers and advertisers.
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Architecture that Combines Deep Neural networks and Vector-Symbolic Models
New AI Architecture
An architecture that combines deep neural networks and vector-symbolic models by Ingrid Fadelli , in Tech Xplore
Researchers at IBM Research Zürich and ETH Zürich have recently created a new architecture that…From The Eponymous Pickle
Serious Errors can be Made with ChatGPT
Care must be taken, security introduced. Ease of use can mean ease of error.
Samsung workers made a major error by using ChatGPT in TechRadar By Lewis Maddison published 3 days ago
Samsung meeting notes and new source code…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are your memory-bound benchmarking timings normally distributed?
When optimizing software, we routinely measure the time that takes a given function or task. The typical assumption is that we get a normal distribution, and so we should therefore report the average time. I believe that this…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart to Add EV Chargers
Spreading availability.
Walmart to add EV chargers to thousands of US stores
Walmart plans to add electric vehicle chargers to thousands of stores across the United States by 2030.
Walmart announced Thursday plans to add electric…From The Eponymous Pickle
Fraunhofer and Digital Medicine
Fraunhofer at the DMEA
Fraunhofer to showcase digital healthcare of tomorrow
Press Release / April 05, 2023
Improved patient care, speedier diagnoses and savings in care costs – the digital transformation of the healthcare industry…From The Eponymous Pickle
Seagull Algorithms and Cloud Computing.
New to me. Have a strong interest in bird flight and further behavior. Biomimicry
ACM TECHNEWS
Seagull Algorithms Could Hide Secret to Greener Cloud Computing, By Fast Company, April 5, 2023
Modeling the motions of seagulls…From insideHPC
Report: Former Intel Exec Koduri, Now at Generative AI Start-up, in Acquisition Talks with Indian Data Center Operator
Raja Koduri, the former senior Intel architect who led the company’s accelerated computing and graphics chip efforts, is in acquisition discussions with a major data center operator in India for the generative AI software company…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Health Equity: How Can Algorithms and Data Mitigate, Not Exacerbate, Harms?” AAAS Panel Recap
An individual’s health is an incredibly personal subject, and going to the doctor can be an intimidating and stressful experience. This is especially true for people that are part of groups that the medical system has historically…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Caterpillar Demonstrates Locomotion Approach for Soft Robotics
Robot Caterpillar Demonstrates Locomotion Approach for Soft Robotics
By NC State University News, March 28, 2023
How the caterpillar-like soft robot moves.
The caterpillar-bot consists of two layers of polymer that respond differently…From The Eponymous Pickle
More New AI: FreedomGPT, Controversy OK?
More AI, Open Source, with some interesting aspects. Allows controversial topics? Will try to examine.
Meet FreedomGPT: An Open-Source AI Technology Built on Alpaca and Programmed to Recognize and Prioritize Ethical Considerations…From insideHPC
DOE: 2024 Fermi Award Call for Nominations
April 5, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a call for nominations for the 2024 Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. The deadline to submit a nomination is Monday, July 10, 2023, 5 pm Eastern Time. Nominations
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From BLOG@CACM
A Year Embedded in the Crypto-NFT Space
From digital ownership to artistic communities.
From Schneier on Security
Research on AI in Adversarial Settings
New research: “Achilles Heels for AGI/ASI via Decision Theoretic Adversaries“:
As progress in AI continues to advance, it is important to know how advanced systems will make choices and in what ways they may fail. Machines can…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Neil Jones, 1941–2023
Neil Jones, sad to relate, just passed away. He was Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, which he joined on a permanent basis in 1982 after gaining tenure at Penn State and a full professorship…
From insideHPC
Quantum Introduces Myriad, Software-Defined All-Flash Enterprise Storage Platform
SAN JOSE, April 3, 2023 — High performance data storage company Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO), maker of solutions for video and unstructured data, has announced Quantum Myriad, an all-flash, scale-out file and object storage…
From The Noisy Channel
Helping Searchers Satisfice through Query Understanding
This morning, I had the opportunity to present an invited talk at Walmart’s AI Summit. Not surprisingly, a lot of folks were excited about the potential of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and LLMs in general.
I decided to do something a little…From The Eponymous Pickle
As AI Continues to Surpass Human Performance, it's Time to Reevaluate Tests,
Evaluating Performance by AI, Humans. Implications? Most interesting. Well take worth a closer look.
As AI continues to surpass human performance, it's time to reevaluate tests , says expert Shana Lynch, Stanford University…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI is Teaching us New, Surprising Things About the Human Mind
ACM TECHNEWS
AI is Teaching Us New, Surprising Things About the Human Mind
By The Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2023
A researcher demonstrates the brain-scanning magnetoencephalography device at New York University.
Artificial intelligence…From insideHPC
SiPearl: €90M Series A Round Closes to Launch Arm-based Rhea HPC Chip
Maisons-Laffitte, France — April 5, 2023 — SiPearl, the French company building Rhea, the energy-efficient HPC microprocessor, has raised €90m financing for the 1st closing of its Series A will be used to commercialize Rhea in…
From Apophenia
Resisting Deterministic Thinking
AI is here and it will change everything! OMG the sky is falling! Programmers are now obsolete. No, they are needed more than ever before. Large language models will destroy journalism, democracy, society. No, they will free…
From Schneier on Security
FBI (and Others) Shut Down Genesis Market
Genesis Market is shut down:
Active since 2018, Genesis Market’s slogan was, “Our store sells bots with logs, cookies, and their real fingerprints.” Customers could search for infected systems with a variety of options, including…From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Age of AI
Interview on the Age of AI
Author Talks: In the ‘age of AI,’ what does it mean to be smart? in McKinsey
March 16, 2023 | Interview
As artificial intelligence gets better at predicting human behavior, a business psychologist encourages…From Yoshua Bengio
Slowing down development of AI systems passing the Turing test
I recently signed an open letter asking to slow down the development of giant AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 –those that currently pass the…
L’article Slowing down development of AI systems passing the Turing test est apparu…From insideHPC
Agnostiq Closes $6.1M Seed Extension Round
TORONTO, April 5, 2023— Quantum company Agnostiq, Inc. of Toronto today announced it has secured $6.1 million in seed extension funding for development and commercialization of its enterprise-grade quantum and high-performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Experts Think
An approach we used directly for later application. Even using neural networks.
Eye Tracking During Building Inspections Provides Insight on How Experts Think By Penn State News, March 30, 2023
Penn State's Maria antonieta…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Practical AI Glossary
From https://www.futuretools.io/ and being updated, and can be searched at the link
"FutureTools Collects & Organizes All The Best AI Tools
Search - Try things like "YouTube" or "SEO" to find specific tools for your needs...
-…From Computational Complexity
Neil Jones (1941-2023)
Neil Jones passed away on March 27.
Neil's work had a profound impact on the field of computational complexity theory, although he was primarily known for…