Communications of the ACM
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June 2023
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Responds to NTIA Request for Comment on AI Accountability Policy
Last month, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released a request for comment on Artificial Intelligence (AI) system accountability measures and policies. The request sought comments pertaining…
From Computational Complexity
Don't Negotiate with Logic
Computer science and mathematicians often try to use logic to negotiate whether it be at a university or life in general. I've tried it myself and it doesn't usually work. Even if you have that (rare) perfect argument, remember…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Example of Data Analytics Education with ChatGPT
In ORMS Today Informs by Elham Torabi Rhonda A. Syler
June 13, 2023 in Issues in Education
Data Analytics Education with ChatGPT: Unlocking New AI-Powered Possibilities
https://doi.org/10.1287/orms.2023.02.14
In late 2022…From insideHPC
Intel Announces Installation of Aurora Blades Is Complete, Expects System to be No. 1 on November TOP500 HPC List
Intel today announced the Aurora exascale-class supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory is now fully equipped with 10,624 compute blades. Putting a stake in the ground, Intel said in its announcement that “later this year…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cute Robotics
Rise of the cute robots by Joseph Boyle in TechExplore
French company Enchanted Tools reckons their machines will help in hospitals, hotels, restaurants and anywhere with objects that need moving.
The red eye that refusesBut…From Schneier on Security
AI as Sensemaking for Public Comments
It’s become fashionable to think of artificial intelligence as an inherently dehumanizing technology, a ruthless force of automation that has unleashed legions of virtual skilled laborers in faceless form. But what if AI turns…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finding Use Cases for Robotics
Space we addressed to help make it clear.
Find The Right Use Cases For Your Robots in Forrester.
Paul Miller, VP, Principal Analyst
JUN 22 2023
Among other achievements Melonee Wise founded Fetch Robotics, and until recently she…From insideHPC
MemVerge Introduces Memory Machine Cloud
MILPITAS, Calif. – June 22, 2023 – MemVerge, a cloud automation company, today unveiled Memory Machine Cloud Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise built on the company’s Cloud Automation 2.0 technology. The platform is aimed at analytic…
From insideHPC
DDN and Helmholtz Munich Receive 2023 AI Breakthrough Award
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – June 21, 2023 – High performance data storage and management company DDN today announced it has been selected alongside Helmholtz Munich as a winner of the 2023 AI Breakthrough Awards for the “Best AI-based…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM to Use AI for Upcoming US Open
Apparently IBM has no fear with using AI for its long running live commentaries on sports.
From ChatGPT & GPT-4:
IBM has been the technology partner for the US Open for more than 30 years, and it has been using AI technology to…From insideHPC
GenAI: Intel Labs Introduces AI Diffusion Model for 360-Degree Images from Text Prompts
Intel Labs, in collaboration with Blockade Labs, has introduced Latent Diffusion Model for 3D (LDM3D), a diffusion model that uses generative AI to create 3D visual content. Intel said LDM3D is the industry’s “first model to
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Marc Andreessen: Why AI Will Save the World
So we are OK, good to hear it ....
Why AI Will Save the World by Marc Andreessen
AI, machine & deep learning Generative AI
Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may saveFirst…From insideHPC
EXAALT-ing Molecular Dynamics to the Power of Exascale
As part of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a collaborative team of scientists, software developers, and hardware integration specialists from across the Department of Energy (DOE) has developed the Exascale Atomistics for…
From Schneier on Security
Ethical Problems in Computer Security
Tadayoshi Kohno, Yasemin Acar, and Wulf Loh wrote excellent paper on ethical thinking within the computer security community: “Ethical Frameworks and Computer Security Trolley Problems: Foundations for Conversation“:
Abstract…From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at Customer Routines
An area we studied. AI was proposed in one case. Like the direction.
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
31 MAY 2023| by Rachel Layne in HBSwk
Armed with more data than…From insideHPC
Sylabs Announces Singularity Enterprise 2.3 for Hybrid Docker/Singularity Workflows
Reno, NV – (June 21, 2023) – Sylabs, a provider of tools and services for performance-intensive container technology, announced today the launch of Singularity Enterprise 2.3. The company said the update synergizes the Open Container…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Could Bamboo be the next Source of Renewable Energy?
Worked with Bamboo in a Florida planting, it is an amazing stuff, But Never thought of it in this way.
Could bamboo be the next source of renewable energy?
by Wiley. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain
An article in GCB Bioenergy…From The Eponymous Pickle
Keeping Hackers Off the Electrical Grid
Biggest issue.
Keeping Hackers Off the Electrical Grid
By R. Colin Johnson
Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 20, 2023
ORNL researchers showed how to encode grid operating data into a unique color pattern hidden inside a single video…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Claims Major Breakthrough in Quantum Computing Reliability
Claims have been many.
IBM Claims Major Breakthrough in Quantum Computing Reliability in Extremetech
Quantum computers are fast, but they produce a lot of wrong answers. IBM says its error mitigation technique could fix that.
By…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Computer Science Marches On
With a note on the death of someone who tried to stop it Arnold the Allosaurus is moving to new digs. All during my time at Princeton, he held sway in cavernous Guyot Hall, the home of several earth and environmental science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatON Assistant vis GPT-4
From insideHPC
Galileo Launches LLM Diagnostics and Explainability Platform
San Francisco — June 20, 2023 — Today, Galileo, a machine-learning (ML) data intelligence company for LLMs and computer vision, announced a suite of tools called Galileo LLM Studio — now available for waitlist signups here. As…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Announces a New Generative AI Playground(?)
Quite interesting, looking for more references (Excerpt) in Venturebeat.
Walmart, Meta and LinkedIn are three companies currently testing internal generative AI options for employees that are safe for the use of company data,…From insideHPC
Exxact Corporation Offering Ampere Altra Family ARM Servers
Fremont, CA, June 20, 2023 — Exxact Corporation, a provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and data center solutions, announces its new offering of the TensorEX server platform featuring the…
From insideHPC
Jules Verne Consortium in France Will Host 2nd EuroHPC Exascale Supercomputer
June 20, 2023 — The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected the Jules Verne Consortium to host and operate in France the second EuroHPC exascale supercomputer to exceed the threshold of…
From insideHPC
Parrot Unveils LLM AI Platform for Court Reporting, Raises $11M Series A Funding
New York — June 20, 2023 – Parrot, a platform for transcribing and managing depositions, made its public debut today announcing $11 million in Series A funding and the release of the first product offering AI-generated deposition…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Quantum Computer Beats Supercomputer in Benchmark
More advances, depends of course on the type of problem, link to details below.
An IBM Quantum Computer Beat a Supercomputer in a Benchmark Test
By Shelly Fan, June 20, 2023 in Singularity Hub
Quantum computers may soon tackle problems…From insideHPC
ALCF: Registration Open for Polaris HPC Bootcamp on July 19
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) announced that registration is now open for a bootcamp on Wednesday, July 19, that will introduce attendees to the Polaris HPC computing environment. Aimed at participants who
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaverse plus AI to be Everywhere?
From BLOG@CACM
ChatGPT Invents a Lot of Nonsense
I asked ChatGPT who wrote the book "Meilensteine der Rechentechnik." The program returns many different answers, all wrong.