Communications of the ACM
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May 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Drug Discovery Is $50-Billion Opportunity for Big Pharma
AI Drug Discovery Is $50-Billion Opportunity for Big Pharma
By Bloomberg, May 18, 2023
Research firm Deep Pharma Intelligence estimates that investments in AI-driven drug discovery companies have tripled over the past four years…From BLOG@CACM
Beyond Passwords: The Path to Stronger Authentication Mechanisms
The inherent risks associated with passwords stem from their very nature.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading a Novel very Quickly.
Caught myself quickly reading a few summarized books with Chat yesterday, ...
ChatGPT rival Anthropic’s Claude can now read a novel in under a minute BY KYT DOTSON
OpenAI LP rival chatbot maker Anthropic said Thursday that it…From The Eponymous Pickle
Satellite Jamming
Satellite Signal Jamming Reaches New Lows Starlink and other LEO constellations face a new set of security risks By LUCAS LAURSEN
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 put Ukrainian communications in a literal jam: Just beforeIn…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Focus on X-Ray Vision
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By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, May 11, 2023
X-ray image of a person using their iPhone.
"There are a vast array of real-world challenges…From Schneier on Security
Google Is Not Deleting Old YouTube Videos
Google has backtracked on its plan to delete inactive YouTube videos—at least for now. Of course, it could change its mind anytime it wants.
It would be nice if this would get people to think about the vulnerabilities inherent…From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy Problem on the iPhone with ChatGPT
Been working for a few days now with ChatGPT on the iPhone, nicely done, but then came this. warning for now, lets fix it!
The ChatGPT iPhone App from OpenAI Has a Glaring Privacy Problem: The Company Can Read Your ConversationsThe…From insideHPC
New TOP500 HPC List: Frontier Extends Lead with Performance Upgrade
After a flurry of new competitors in 2022 at the top of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the first list of 2023 – issued here in Hamburg this morning athe ISC conference – reveals the same top 10 systems…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fraunhofer Talks AI
Good comments, broadly stated, worth a further look.
Fraunhofer Strategic Research Field
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence, cognitive systems and machine learning play a crucial role in the future transformation…From The Eponymous Pickle
Novel 3D Printing Method
New direction,new materials.
Novel 3D printing method a 'game changer' for discovery, manufacturing of new materials by Karla Cruise, University of Notre Dame
The design strategy of HTCP. a, Schematic illustration of the combinatorial…From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeing Meta Lenses
Seeing it sensing it. Machine seeing, sensing.
FLAT LENSES MADE OF NANOSTRUCTURES TRANSFORM TINY CAMERAS AND PROJECTORS In Spectrum IEEE
Metalenses are finally moving into consumers’ hands
Inside today’s computers, phones, and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Pixel Smartphones Will Add Bard AI Widget: Report
Its everywhere! Am now using GPT on my Iphone, now it will show up on any Android too, see below. Not really usually for a specific need yet, but interesting to see. Had Wikipedia, now have a broader source of knowledgeGoogle…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT's Work Lacks Transparency and That Is a Problem
RAND Thoughts on Chat: No Transparency
ChatGPT's Work Lacks Transparency and That Is a Problem
ChatGPT logo in this illustration from March 31, 2023
by Carter C. Price, May 8, 2023
After getting a set of questions about the COVID…From The Eponymous Pickle
Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering
Hmmm ... Memories are shadows of the Future but flashlight the future?
Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering In QuantaMagazine
Memories may affect how well the brain will learn about future events by shifting…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ai and Politics
AI and Politics: How Will We Know What—and Who—Is Real?
By The Walrus, May 1, 2023
Illustration depicts a person looking through binoculars; through one lens is another person, through the other is a digital representation ofThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bain Working with OpenAI
Have followed Bain for come time here, Coca-Cola discussion.
Few recent advances in technology have elicited as much interest as generative artificial intelligence. Media outlets around the world have provided…From Computational Complexity
Logic and lack of Logic of Anti Vaxers
I wrote the post below the dotted line a long time ago but never got around to posting it. Now that
WHO says COVID emergency is over.
(When I first saw I misread it as a question:
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone LiDAR
Driving Drone LiDAR
SMALLER, SAFER, AND EASY TO USE: EASYONE DRONE LIDAR
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Smaller, Safer, and Easy To Use: EasyOne Drone LiDAR
Company that Launched The World’s First Quadcopter Drone Announces The NewMay…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Communications Committee Leadership Opportunity
Apply by August 15, 2023 The ACM-W Communications Committee is seeking nominations for a Co-Chair. Initial terms for the positions will begin Sep 1st, 2023 and extend until Sept 30th, 2025. You will be joining an active team…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Communications Committee Co-Chair
ACM-W (ACM Women in Computing) is seeking applicants for the next Co-Communications Chair. Come and be the voice of an organization supporting, celebrating, and advocating for women in computing around the world. Responsibilities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Ad Industry
Another thing we dabbled with. We had lots and lots of ads in archives. How do you use and reuse them efficiently
How the digital ad industry can guide the ways AI transforms businesses. in Venturebeat.
When Microsoft-fundedHowever…From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy Vaults
Key ability to have available to access private, personal or corporate data
Palo Alto, California-based Skyflow, a company that makes it easier for developers to embed data privacy into their applications, today announced theThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP AI Community Introduction
Exploring this. Here just an intro and link. ... Intriguing. Met with them in the 90s to discuss what they were doing in this and related analytic areas. We were a SAP shop them.
Welcome to the SAP AI Community
Start building…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The last piece of the continental drift puzzle
A computer helped provide the final piece in the puzzle of how the continents formed and moved around. It gave a convincing demonstration that the Americas, Europe and Africa had once been one giant continent, Pangea, the pieces…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Plugin Possibility Examples
Plugin Possibilities
The ideas of using plugins with ChatGBT is interesting, and potentially powerful. Here is a list from Linkedin. as examples of the possibilities. It is corrently pointed out that the correctness of such…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Peruvian Squid-Fishing Regulation Drives Chinese Fleets Away
A Peruvian oversight law has the opposite effect:
Peru in 2020 began requiring any foreign fishing boat entering its ports to use a vessel monitoring system allowing its activities to be tracked in real time 24 hours a day. …From insideHPC
HPE to Build 67 PFLOPS TSUBAME4.0 HPC for AI-Driven Science at Tokyo Tech
TOKYO – May 19, 2023 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it was selected by Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) to build its next-generation…
From insideHPC
D-Wave Reports First Quarter Results
BURNABY, B.C. & PALO ALTO, Calif. – May 19, 2023 – D-Wave Quantum Inc., (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”) a commercial quantum computing systems, software and services company, today announced financial results for its…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dark Web ChatGPT Unleashed: Meet DarkBERT
Training on the Dark Web?
Dark Web ChatGPT Unleashed: Meet DarkBERT in CACM By Tom's Hardware, May 19, 2023
To train the model, the researchers crawled the Dark Web through the Tor network, then filtered the raw data (applying…From insideHPC
From 24 Hours to 7 Minutes, Huawei OceanStor Pacific Accelerates Genome Sequencing
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) is an annual conference that showcases the key technologies in the supercomputing field. It brings together experts from multiple specialist fields, including…