Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Race to Make AI Smaller, Smarter
The Race to Make AI Smaller, Smarter
The New York Times
Oliver Whang, May 30, 2023
The BabyLM Challenge, organized by computer scientists at institutions including Johns Hopkins University and Switzerland's ETH Zurich, is aimed…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Can Rewrite Code
Recently have heard some very good coders say, no can't happen professionally anytime soon. True?
AI Rewrites Coding By Samuel Greengard
Communications of the ACM, April 2023, Vol. 66 No. 4, Pages 12-14 10.1145/3583083
Computer…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Collecting mini-beasts and pocket monsters
Satoshi Tajiri created one of the biggest money-making media franchises of all time. It all started with his love of nature and, in particular, minibeasts. It also eventually took gamers back into the fresh air.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
“Tlahcuilo”, a visual composer
A main goal of computational creativity research is to help us better understand how this essential human characteristic, creativity, works. By building computer models of the processes we think are behind creativity, we can…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technogy links (June 3 2023)
There are fewer serial killers these days. Some suggests it is due to better forensic techniques: we catch the killers faster and more efficiently. Between the beginnings of the Web (1996) and today, the household Internet connection…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Topping the Hat
An “einstein” that doesn’t need flipping Siobhan Roberts is a Canadian science journalist, biographer, and historian of mathematics. She has an article that appeared in print in yesterday’s New York Times. It is on a second breakthrough…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google: Search General Experience (SGE)
Google Labs writes (Click through for detail), had been brought to to my attention)
3 new ways generative AI can help you search
This week, we began opening up access to Search Labs, a new program to test out early experiments…From The Eponymous Pickle
Making of a Mona Lisa Hologram (With pictures)
The Making of a Mona Lisa Hologram (With pictures)
By AIP Publishing, June 2, 2023
While the Mona Lisa hologram is two-dimensional, the technique can be extended to create three-dimensional images as well.
An international team…From The Eponymous Pickle
Priomise of Holographic Displays
ACM NEWS
Talked these in terms of advertising
The Promise of Holographic Displays
By Sandrine Ceurstemont
Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 1, 2023
Unlike today's two-dimensional computer screens, holographic displays could soon present…From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating high-yielding Hybrid Crops that can be Propagated indefinitely
Unmixed Blessing?
Researchers are Closing in on the long-sought goal of creating high-yielding hybrid crops that can be Propagated Indefinitely
18 MAY 2023 BYERIK STOKSTAD
Science, Vol 380, Issue 6646.
In early summer, unusualBut…From The Eponymous Pickle
Fruit Picking Robotics
Fruit-Picking Robot Eve Ready to Harvest Apples Commercially, as Shortage of Workers Persists
By ABC News (Australia), May 25, 2023
Eve, the fruit-picking robot.
Australian startup Ripe Robotics spent four years developing itsRipe…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Follow those ants
Ant colonies are really good at adapting to changing situations: far better than humans. Sameena Shah wondered if Artificial Intelligence agents might do better by learning their intelligent behaviour from ants rather than us…
From BLOG@CACM
AI Does Not Help Programmers
Getting past the"Wow" effect.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Chromolithographs
Beautiful illustrations.
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 insideHPC
Report: CoreWeave Wins Miscrosoft Deal for GPU Cloud Services Worth Billions
Suddenly, GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is one of the hot tech companies of the week and likely longer. No sooner did the Roseland, NY, startup announce on Wednesday it had secured $200 million in a series B venture round extension…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply To AI Training
Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply To AI Training
By Technomancers.ai
June 1, 2023.
Not everyone in Japan is on board with this decision. Many anime and graphic art creators are concerned that AI could lower the value of…From Schneier on Security
Open-Source LLMs
In February, Meta released its large language model: LLaMA. Unlike OpenAI and its ChatGPT, Meta didn’t just give the world a chat window to play with. Instead, it released the code into the open-source community, and shortly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
Security hole potential in most everything. Fix it.
The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
By Wired, May 26, 2023
Security experts warn that not enough attention is being given to the potential dangers of indirect…From The Eponymous Pickle
Peripheral Vision for Machines
Beyond robotics
The Benefits of Peripheral Vision for Machines
Researchers find similarities between how some computer-vision systems process images and how humans see out of the corners of our eyes.
Adam Zewe | MIT News Office
Publication…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Combinatorics or Logic?
Or is it number theory? Julius Büchi was a Swiss mathematician who taught at Purdue University for many years. His is arguably a case of influence—in multiple fields—far exceeding a modest number of publications. A number of…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The first computer wizard
Christopher Strachey did a series of firsts in computer programming, and that was just when he was playing.
From insideHPC
Power Grid Modeling Tool Launched on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
Exascale Grid Optimization (ExaGO), a power grid simulation and optimization platform developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is the first of its kind to run on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Frontier…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Advances in AI
Excerpt from ChatGPT, General Statement, China Status and Advances
China has made significant advancements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years. The Chinese government has prioritized AI development…From insideHPC
Photonics Compute and Interconnect Startup Lightmatter Raises $154M Series C Funding, Targets HPC and AI Workloads
BOSTON – Photonics computing company Lightmatter announced it has raised $154 million in a Series C investment round, bringing to $270 million that the company has raised. Participants in this latest round are SIP Global, Fidelity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
With Electronics in His Brain, Spine, Paralyzed Man Takes a Stride
With Electronics in His Brain, Spine, Paralyzed Man Takes a Stride
The Washington Post
Daniel Gilbert, May 24, 2023
An international team of scientists and neurosurgeons implanted electronics into the brain and spinal cord of a…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Peak credentialism
How much is a degree from a prestigious university worth? The answer is a bit difficult to answer because there are many cofounding factors: people from the connected class (folks that ‘know people’) tend to attend the mostContinue…
From insideHPC
At ISC 2023: A DNN Update on Its Latest High Performance Data Storage/Data Management Solutions for HPC and AI
At ISC 2023, we caught up with DDN Vice President of Marketing Kurt Kuckein on new product offerings from the high performance storage and data management company. A long-time HPC storage stalwart, many of the same challenges…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. No One Can Agree How
Clear, but essential.
Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. No One Can Agree How, By Wired, May 31, 2023
Clamping limits on such a nascent technology, even one whose baby steps are shaking the earth, courts the danger of hobbling great…From Schneier on Security
On the Catastrophic Risk of AI
Earlier this week, I signed on to a short group statement, coordinated by the Center for AI Safety:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics …From The Eponymous Pickle
Eight AI Risk Types:
Excerpted from ChatGPT, 6/1/2023, Useful overview
The “eight AI risk types” framework refers to a categorization proposed by researchers at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford. This framework aims to…