Communications of the ACM
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May 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nvidia taps into Israeli innovation to build generative AI cloud supercomputer
Nvidia taps into Israeli innovation to build generative AI cloud supercomputer
Chip giant says Israel-1 supercomputer valued at several hundred million dollars is a ‘major investment’ that will boost next-generation AI workloads…From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenLLaMA is a fully open-source LLM, now ready for business
Brought to my attention. in the-encoder.com
OpenLLaMA is a fully open-source LLM, now ready for business
OpenLLaMA is an open-source reproduction of Meta’s LLaMA language model and can be used commercially.
Since the unveiling…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sound Vibrations Can Encode, Process Data Like Quantum Computers
Remarkable ...
Sound Vibrations Can Encode, Process Data Like Quantum Computers
By New Scientist, May 25, 2023
University of Arizona researchers demonstrated that trapping sound in a simple mechanical device can imitate certainThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
Can China overtake the US in the AI Marathon?
ChatGPT: Can China overtake the US in the AI marathon?
By Derek Cai & Annabelle Liang in BBC News
Artificial intelligence has emerged as enough of a concern that it made it onto what was already a packed agenda at the G7 summit…From The Eponymous Pickle
Light-Field Sensor for 3D Scene Construction with Unprecedented Angular Resolution
Light-Field Sensor for 3D Scene Construction with Unprecedented Angular Resolution
By NUS News (Singapore), May 18, 2023
A large scale angle-sensing structure comprising nanocrystal phospors, a key component of the sensor, illuminated…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Boost for the Quantum Internet
A Boost for the Quantum Internet
Universitat Innsbruck (Austria)
May 23, 2023
Researchers at Austria's University of Innsbruck transmitted quantum information with a quantum repeater node operating at telecommunication networks'…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Black in Data
Careers do not have to be decided on from day one. You can end up in a good place in a roundabout way. That is what happened to Sadiqah Musa, and now she is helping make the paths easier for others to follow, particularly for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demystifying AI
Seems interesting, Agree there is mush understanding. More at the link. Will read.
Demystifying AI..
Where to Draw the Line Between Myth and Reality
First things first: Why exactly has AI become such a nebulous term…From BLOG@CACM
Education is Always Changing: We Need to Define CS to Keep the Good Stuff
Hype and fashion cycles drive education change. Let's protect the good stuff.
From Computational Complexity
On Nov 10, 2014 the TV show Scorpion mentions Software that is like ChatGPT for Music
Scorpion is a TV show that ran from 2014 to 2018. It involves a group of brilliant (to say the least) but socially awkward (to say the least) people who help the government battle threats and/or solve crimes.
The episode Risky…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computers Compared
Useful, see link to full article linked to below there are 24 processors!
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Los Alamos National Laboratory compared leading quantum computers using the Quantum Computing UserThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
How Generational Differences Affect Consumer Attitudes Towards Ads
As a big advertiser, something we thought about.
Meta Research
How generational differences affect consumer attitudes towards ads
By: Melanie Beer Zeldin
Our research study, in collaboration with CrowdDNA, aims to understand people's…From The Eponymous Pickle
Demolishing the Journalism Industry Using AI?
Demolishing the Journalism Industry Using AI?
By Futurism, May 12, 2023
Google's new search interface, built on a model trained on unpaid-for human output, will swallow even more human-made content and spit it back out to information…From The Eponymous Pickle
More on IBM and AI Today
We worked with IBM for years, Saw the kind of methods they were pressing that connected their work with Watson and game playing, but never got the impression that that could provide the kind of general management of general…
From BLOG@CACM
Pedagogical Paths Through Ethics
Concepts of ethics can be integrated into lessons that reflect contemporary concerns and involve student knowledge of modern technology.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Space Logistics
Northrup Grumman advances:
SpaceLogistics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, provides cooperative space logistics and in-orbit satellite servicing to geosynchronous satellite operators using…From The Eponymous Pickle
Further Update on Elon Musk' s Brain Chip
Neuralink: Why is Elon Musk’s brain chip firm in the news?
By Shiona McCallum Technology reporter in the BBC
Elon Musk's brain chip firm Neuralink has said that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its firstThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
Are ChatGPT's Good at 'Not'
Are ChatGPT's Good at 'Not' in QuantaMagazine
Max G. Levy
Contributing Writer, May 12, 2023
Nora Kassner suspected her computer wasn’t as smart as people thought. In October 2018, Google released a language model algorithm called…From The Eponymous Pickle
Europe's First 3D-Printed School Takes Shape in Ukraine
Europe's First 3D-Printed School Takes Shape in Ukraine
Radio Free Europe/Radio Free Liberty (Czech Republic)
May 25, 2023
Humanitarian group Team4UA organized the building of Europe's first three-dimensionally (3D)-printed primary…From The Eponymous Pickle
Rodney Brooks Talks about AI
Comments here a little late, but good points.
Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already And stop confusing performance with competence, says Rodney Brooks By Glenn Zorpette in Spectrum IEEE
Rapid and pivotal advances in technology…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Reclaim your name
In 2021 the Canadian government announced that Indigenous people would be allowed to use their ancestral family names on government-issued identity documents. For the first time they could use the names that are part of their…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Online Cephalopod Course
Atlas Obscura has a five-part online course on cephalopods, taught by squid biologist Dr. Sarah McAnulty.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Readhere…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Expected performance of a Bloom filter
A hash function is a function that maps a value (such as a string) to an integer value. Typically, we want random-looking values. A Bloom filter is a standard data structure in computer science to approximate a set. Basically…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Al-Jazari: the father of robotics
Science fiction films are full of humanoid robots acting as servants, workers, friends or colleagues. The first were created during the Islamic Golden Age, a thousand years ago.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuralink, Elon Musk's Brain Implant is Approved for Clinical Trials
Had not followed this before, will continue ...
Neuralink says it has the FDA’s OK to start clinical trials
Company isn't enrolling patients yet, but it has cleared a major hurdle.
- John Timmer in Arstechnica
In December 2022…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethereum Closes Security Hole with Energy-Saving Update
Interesting example of Security problem.
Ethereum Closes Security Hole with Energy-Saving Update
By New Scientist,May 26, 2023.
Running an Ethereum node allows a user to create transactions and broadcast them across the networkAn…From The Noisy Channel
Affordances for Conversational Search
In application design, affordances are cues that help users discover and explore how to interact with the application. Typical affordances for search applications include buttons and links. Users do not need to be experts toThe…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Catalyzes Gene Activation Research, Uncovers Rare DNA Sequences
More amazement via AI.
AI Catalyzes Gene Activation Research, Uncovers Rare DNA Sequences
By UC San Diego Today, May 25, 2023
Investigating DNA sequences.
Using machine learning, the researchers discovered the downstream core promoter…From The Eponymous Pickle
Experitionary Cyberspace Operations
Good piece in Schneier:
Expeditionary Cyberspace Operations
Cyberspace operations now officially has a physical dimension, meaning that the United States has official military doctrine about cyberattacks that also involve…From The Eponymous Pickle
Return to the Office Has Stalled
Clearly the case, the future?
The Return to the Office Has Stalled
By The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2023
Hybrid work has become the norm for many employers.
When average city office-occupancy rates at the start of the year surpassed…