Communications of the ACM
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May 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond the Bard
Beyond the Bard, on to New Gemini. Google is on to the next level. Lots of claims about the state of these very large LMM models. How well do they work? still unclear.
https://youtu.be/wkNAxp3dXFY <-start here)
Google's11…From Computational Complexity
Take a number and map it to the number of letters in its name
Let f: N--> N map a number to the number-of-letters in its name in English (we will consider other languages later).
So for example 14 is fourteen so it maps to 7. Let's iterate
14 --> 7 --> 5 --> 4-->4-->4 ...
It is known (perhaps…From The Eponymous Pickle
Background of Approaches using Deep Learning and Materials
Value of Deep Learning with Materials: Via ChatGPT 5/14/2023, See previous post
Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that uses artificial neural networks to model and solve complex problems. It has found numerousOne…From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploring Material Interiors with Deep Learning
Previously Mentioned, now in more detail..
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Compression Scheme Facilitates Measurement of Blood Flow to the Brain
Healthcare
Data Compression Scheme Facilitates Measurement of Blood Flow to the Brain
SPIE, May 8, 2023
A data compression scheme developed by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Edinburgh allows most calculations involving…From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
- I’m speaking at IT-S Now 2023 in Vienna, Austria, on June 2, 2023 at 8:30 AM CEST.
The list is maintained on this page.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Fish Makes Splash with Motion Breakthrough
For underwater exploration
Robot Fish Makes Splash with Motion Breakthrough By University of Bristol News (U.K.), May 11, 2023
The robot fish was fitted with a twisted and coiled polymer (TCP) to drive it forward, a light-weight…From The Eponymous Pickle
Generative AI's Next Frontier Is Video
It is already out there,
Generative AI's Next Frontier Is Video
By Bloomberg, March 23, 2023
While Gen 2’s image quality is currently a bit blurry and shaky, making it easy to sense that there’s something different about aThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Matter as Lattice QCD
Whats next, no big bang?
It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations?
By Stephen Battersby 20 November 2008
New Scientist Default Image
Each proton is made of three quarks, but the individual masses of these quarks only…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The tale of the mote and the petrel
Biology and computer science can meet in some unexpected, not to mention inhospitable, places. Who would have thought that the chemical soup in the nests of Petrels studied by field biologists might help in
the development of…
From The Noisy Channel
The Compressibility of Thought
In a recent Tom Fishburne cartoon, one employee says “AI turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote,” while another says, “AI makes a single bullet point out of this long email I pretend I read.”
Fishburne…From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Machines to Learn More Like Humans Do
Training computer Vision models
MIT News, By Adam Zewe May 9, 2023
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Toyota subsidiary Woven Planet found computer vision models can be trained to produce more stable…From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA Releases new 'AI Perfusion' Papers
Like to see things that NVIDIA is thinking about
https://youtu.be/68mGbVou8p0 (start at this to get full intro)
Nvidia's NEW 'AI Perfusion' Takes the Industry By STORM! (NOW ANNOUNCED!)
from TheAIGRID 3,482 views May 13,Nvidia's…From The Eponymous Pickle
Germany's Plan to Tackle Rapidly Aging Workforce: Recruit Robots
Connected with Japan on similar issues.
Germany's Plan to Tackle Rapidly Aging Workforce: Recruit Robots
By CNBC, May 11, 2023
Robots could be key to solving Germany’s labor shortage.
Germany is looking to digitalization to help…From The Eponymous Pickle
First Commercial Space Station Underway
First Commercial Space Station
Construction is Underway
The construction of the world’s first commercial space station is underway. Following the completion of preliminary and critical design reviews in collaboration with NASA,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Rand Talks AI
Had long ago connections with Rand, they have good background in the spece, here they talk the current positive and negatives.
AI, ChatGPT, and Language as Technology: Q&A with William Marcellino Rand.org
Q&A
ChatGPT user…From The Eponymous Pickle
Applying Blockchain to Digital Advertising
The combination is interesting.
Applying Blockchain to Digital Advertising
By Erica Techo, University of Georgia
Blockchains
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain
The same technology that secures cryptocurrency systems could alsoMany…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI self-play for Algorithm Design
AI and Puzzles..
AI self-play for algorithm design in Microsoft.com
Published May 2, 2023
By Adam Tauman Kalai , Senior Principal Researcher Patrick Haluptzok , AI Research Associate
A self-play pipeline for a language model (LM)…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Video
A video—authentic, not a deep fake—of a giant squid close to the surface.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
From The Noisy Channel
Welcoming Our New Robot Overserfs
These are early days for generative AI, but it already feels like we are at the dawn of a revolution in human-computer communication. Practically overnight, we can communicate with machines conversationally, with both parties…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China AI Emerges from iFlytek
New to me. not unexpected. How regulated will this be?
Chinese AI Company iFlytek Launches Its Generative Language Model Called Spark Model
By Niharika Singh -May 11, 2023
iFlytek, a leading Chinese AI company, has launched its…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
ARM instructions do “less work”?
Modern processors can execute several instructions per cycle. Because processors cannot easily run faster (in terms of clock speed), vendors try to get their processors to do more work per cycle. Apple processors are wide inContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MEPs Vote in Amendments to EU AI Act
Expect more regulation to emerge.
MEPs vote in raft of amendments to EU AI Act
The proposed amendments to the EU’s AI Act have garnered a mixed reception from both industry and civil society, with the former seeing it as too stringent…From Schneier on Security
Ted Chiang on the Risks of AI
Ted Chiang has an excellent essay in the New Yorker: “Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?”
The question we should be asking is: as A.I. becomes more powerful and flexible, is there any way to keep it from being another version…From The Eponymous Pickle
How Generative AI is Changing the Knowledge Paradigm for Enterprises
Good thoughts
From VB Spotlight
How generative AI is changing the knowledge paradigm for enterprises
VB Staff, May 12, 2023 5:05 AM
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Meta Says ChatGPT-Themed Malware Is Beginning to Spread
Meta Says ChatGPT-Themed Malware Is Beginning to Spread
It's a classic trick deployed by bad actors—latch onto the most recent buzzword to fool people into clicking on something. By Josh Norem May 5, 2023 in Extremetech
One…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Enters Palm 2
The internals are getting weirder.
Enter PaLM 2 (New Bard): Full Breakdown - 92 Pages Read and Gemini Before GPT 5? Google I/O
AI Explained
138K subscribers, Subscribed
62,701 views May 11, 2023
Google…From The Eponymous Pickle
NIST on Post Quantum
Schneier mentions with draft further comments. Key developments.
NIST has release a draft of Special Publication1800-38A: Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparation for Considering the Implementation and Adoption ofWe…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google reveals AI updates as it Vies with Microsoft
Advanced Tech rolls on. In China, Baidu's Ernie makes a AI play.
Google reveals AI updates as it vies with Microsoft in the BBC
Google has announced it is rolling out generative artificial intelligence (AI) to its coreThe…From insideHPC
Advanced Clustering Technologies Announces ClusterVisor 1.0 HPC Management System
KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 11, 2023 — Advanced Clustering Technologies has announced the release of ClusterVisor 1.0, an update the company said enhances the features and benefits of this high performance computing (HPC) cluster management…