Communications of the ACM
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May 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Babies Conceived with Sperm-Injecting Robot Have Been Born
Babies Conceived with Sperm-Injecting Robot Have Been Born By MIT Technology Review, May 9, 2023
Some startups are saying the in vitro fertilization process could be carried out automatically, or nearly so.
Scientists claim the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Can AI save lives? Cancer Detection Study Suggests Yes
Cancer Detection
Can AI save lives? Cancer detection study suggests yes
New research shows algorithm efficient at detecting recurrence in high-risk patients
May 1, 2023 - 5:00 pm
Much of the world may currently be fretting aboutOne…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wendys Test Drive-Through with AI
Will try to seek out an implementation.
Wendy’s tests an AI chatbot that takes your drive-thru order
The fast-food chain is partnering with Google to train an AI model that knows what ‘biggie bags’ and ‘JBC’ mean.
By Emma Roth…From The Eponymous Pickle
Odors In Virtual Worlds
Again, a space we experimented in, especially with regards to coffee. Here more VR related.
Creating smells in virtual…From The Eponymous Pickle
Theory of Mind (TOM) responses Essential, Improved
Theory of Mind (TOM) mean the degree you can determine the mental state of a person/thing you are talking to. It is often used even in interactions with simple decision trees. What is the callers goal? What technical terms…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Midsize Companies Can Keep Up with AI
Good general thoughts, narrow directions.
How Midsize Companies Can Keep Up with AI by Dani Mariano
Right now, many businesses are reacting to generative AI in a vacuum. But individual innovations shouldn’t be approached with…From BLOG@CACM
Creating Organizational Sustainability by Connecting to National Core Values
The FIRST ISRAEL organization is working to increase its presence in the Israeli geographic periphery by exploiting Israel's social orientation and its strength in STEM education.
From Schneier on Security
PIPEDREAM Malware against Industrial Control Systems
Another nation-state malware, Russian in origin:
In the early stages of the war in Ukraine in 2022, PIPEDREAM, a known malware was quietly on the brink of wiping out a handful of critical U.S. electric and liquid natural gas…From BLOG@CACM
400 Years of Mechanical Calculating Machines
Germany is celebrating the 400th birthday of Schickard's "calculating clock."
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Perplexity.AI, Rethinking Search, Learning from the follow-up.
Played with this for some time. A different experience
https://youtu.be/_vMOWw3uYvk?list=RDCMUCMLtBahI5DMrt0NPvDSoIRQ
PERPLEXITY AI - The future of search.
Machine Learning Street Talk
https://www.perplexity.ai/
https://www.perplexity…From The Eponymous Pickle
Chinese Metaverse About Work
Very different.
China's Metaverse Is All About Work
By Wired, May 4, 2023
What’s emerging in China is very different from the metaverses envisioned in the West.
China's government aims to build a metaverse that supports the economy…From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Future and AI
Like the combination of Recorded Future and AI. Naturally useful. Check it out, I plan to.
Introducing Recorded Future AI: AI-driven intelligence to elevate your security defenses
Posted: 11th April 2023, By: Kalpana Singh…From Computational Complexity
Other Ramsey's
I often Google Ramsey stuff to find something. I often end up back on my own collection of Ramsey theory papers. But I sometimes find OTHER uses of the phrase Ramsey.
To tell these Ramsey's apart we will call the math Ramsey…From insideHPC
Galileo Unveils ML Data-Quality Intelligence Platform for Computer Vision Models
San Francisco, May 8, 2023 — Galileo, the machine-learning (ML) data intelligence company for unstructured data, today announced the launch of its proprietary data-quality intelligence platform, called Galileo Data Intelligence…
From insideHPC
Women in HPC Announces Events at ISC 2023
The Women in HPC (WHPC) Volunteer Committee for ISC23 has announced an in-person events schedule for this year’s conference at the Congress Center in Hamburg. “In keeping with our continued drive towards greater inclusivity within…
From The Noisy Channel
Is AI-Generated OK?
For as long as we have had needs, long before servers started asking us “Sorry, we don’t have Coke, is Pepsi ok?”, we have accepted substitutes for the products and services we seek. Indeed, fungibility is so universal that non…
From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenLLaMA is a fully open-source LLM, now ready for business
New LLM Connections are open for business, have been trying for a while, though are still a bit choppy.
OpenLLaMA is a fully open-source LLM, now ready for business
OpenLLaMA is an open-source reproduction of Meta’s LLaMA language…From Schneier on Security
AI Hacking Village at DEF CON This Year
At DEF CON this year, Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI and Stability AI will all open up their models for attack.
The DEF CON event will rely on an evaluation platform developed by Scale AI, a California…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of Data Storage Lies in DNA Microcapsules
The Future of Data Storage Lies in DNA Microcapsules
By Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), May 5, 2023
Microcapsules with fluorescent labels.
A DNA file can be stored much more compactly, and the lifespan of theAn…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Spotlight on Trondheim ACM-W Professional Chapter
ACM-W would like to spotlight the Trondheim ACM-W Professional Chapter this month through an interview with Dr. Letizia Jaccheri. Dr. Jaccheri is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Norwegian University of Science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Might Enable Us to Talk to Animals Soon. Here's How
Have my doubts.
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AI Might Enable Us to Talk to Animals Soon. Here's How. By ZDNet, May 5, 2023
Through machine learning techniques, we could gainImagine…From The Eponymous Pickle
Dartmouth AI Launch Photo
Heard of this long ago, and met a few of the participants. Was inspired by some. Notably Minsky. How would they react to progress now? Picture and more at the link.
The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI There's more to…From The Eponymous Pickle
DIAMETRICS: Benchmarking Query Engines at Scale
Benchmarking and Performance Monitoring
DIAMETRICS: Benchmarking Query Engines at Scale
By Shaleen Deep, Anja Gruenheid, Kruthi Nagaraj, Hiro Naito, Jeff Naughton, Stratis Viglas
Communications of the ACM, December 2022, Vol. 65…From The Eponymous Pickle
Highly Dexterous Robot Hand Can Operate in the Dark
Robotic hands
Highly Dexterous Robot Hand Can Operate in the Dark
By Columbia Engineering News, May 3, 2023
In addition to its new levels of dexterity, the hand worked without any external cameras, so it is immune to lighting, occlusion…From The Eponymous Pickle
Swiss Station Replaces DJs, Musicians with AI for a Day
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'AI is Taking Your Favorite Radio by Storm': Swiss Station Replaces DJs, Musicians with AI for a Day
By Fortune, May 3, 2023
The voices sound like well-known…From Yoshua Bengio
AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI?
There have recently been lots of discussions about the risks of AI, whether in the short term with existing methods or in the longer term…
L’article AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI? est apparu en premier sur Yoshua Bengio.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Goods: Unilever, Kimberly Clark, KC -- Jumping Into AI
Used to analyze what Unilever was doing in applications of Advanced tech. Here related:
How Unilever Expedites Product Innovation With AI, Automation, and Robots
04/21/2023 By Liz Dominguez Managing Editor, in Consumergoods
…From The Eponymous Pickle
An ML-based approach to better characterize lung diseases
Machine Learning at work.
An ML-based approach to better characterize lung diseases
THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2023
Posted by Babak Behsaz, Software Engineer, and Andrew Carroll, Product Lead, Genomics
The combination of the environment…From The Eponymous Pickle
Meta Announcement
Meta-AI
COMPUTER VISION
DINOv2: State-of-the-art computer vision models with self-supervised learning
Today, we are open-sourcing DINOv2, the first method for training computer vision models that uses self-supervised learning to…From The Eponymous Pickle
About Max Tegmark, Swedish-American physicist, cosmologist and machine learning researcher
Max Tegmark Interviewed by 'Lex Fridman Podcast #155' : (Very good)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL4j4KPwNGM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tegmark
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Born 5 May 1967 (age 56)
Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality Swedish…