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 insideHPC
GE Aerospace Runs New Engine Architecture Simulations on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
GE Aerospace has announced that to support the development of a new open fan jet engine architecture, the organization has run simulations using Frontier, the world’s no. 1 ranked supercomputer, housed at the Department of Energy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Workato to Ease Business Automation
New to me, some broader solutions are emerging. Others?
Workato partners with OpenAI to ease business automation in Venturebeat
Workato, an enterprise automation platform, has announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon.com Using Artificial Intelligence for Shopper Supply Chain
In Retailwire: 05/15/2023
Amazon.com uses artificial intelligence technology to make it easier for customers to shop for items to buy, optimize truck routes to deliver goods more quickly and determine where to warehouse inventory…From The Eponymous Pickle
Re Nature of Consciousness
Big issue for future and how we treat and make safe what we build and use. Good piece.
What Is the Nature of Consciousness? In QuantaMagazine
Consciousness, our experience of being in the world, is one of the mind’s greatest…From The Eponymous Pickle
EU Lawmakers Lay Groundwork for 'Historic' AI Regulation
Consider too future development
EU Lawmakers Lay Groundwork for 'Historic' AI Regulation
Deutsche Welle (Germany)
June 14, 2023
On June 14, the European Parliament voted to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google says its Lens image search can now help identify skin conditions
Recall talking to Google on such capabilities.
Google says its Lens image search can now help identify skin conditions
‘Just take a picture or upload a photo through Lens, and you’ll find visual matches to inform your search.’
…From BLOG@CACM
Exponential Protests
Exponential organizations offer an appropriate organized structure for the current Israeli protest, and maybe for other cases of civil resistance.
From Schneier on Security
Power LED Side-Channel Attack
This is a clever new <a href=”https://www.nassiben.com/video-based-crypta>side-channel attack:
The first attack uses an Internet-connected surveillance camera to take a high-speed video of the power LED on a smart card reader…From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC Talks Job Loss from their Perspective
Initial look at AI Related Job losses, Intro.
The workers already replaced by artificial intelligence
Published, 2 days ago
Dean Meadowcroft never thought that AI would replace him
By Ian Rose, Business reporter, BBC News
Until recently…From Computational Complexity
Ted Kaczynski was at one time the worlds most famous living mathematician
(This post is inspired by the death of Ted Kaczynski who died on June 10, 2023.)
From 1978 until 1995 23 mailbombs were send to various people. 3 caused deaths, the rest caused injuries. The culprit was nicknamed The Unabomber…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Boom Takes Silicon Valley on a Manic Quest, Will it Change the World?
ACM NEWS
The AI Boom Has Silicon Valley on Another Manic Quest to Change the World
By BusinessWeek,June 15, 2023
It's a frenzy not seen since the dot-com fever of the late 1990s. Tech CEOs are reorienting their companies towardCredit…From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT Is Coming to 900,000 Mercedes Vehicles
This made me think about the how and why of it. Watch the road before prompting.
Mercedes says it's going to test ChatGPT with its in-car voice assistant for the next three months. in xtremethink
ChatGPT may be well on itsLike…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google debuts AI-powered ad Placement tools
Lets see it.
Google debuts AI-powered ad placement tools
BY MIKE WHEATLEY
Alphabet Inc.’s Google said today it’s enhancing its online advertising placement capabilities with the launch of two new artificial intelligence-poweredAI…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era: IBM
Next?
Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era: IBM
The New York Times
Kenneth Chang, June 14, 2023
IBM researchers simulated the behavior of 127 atom-scale bar magnets in a magnetic field using a 127-qubit quantum processor, generating…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Kind of Holodec from the 90s
In the 80's we built a kind of Holodec, but were not patient enough to finish it with the tools of the times. Now we Have more of those tools. Called them a 'Business Sphere' back them ... Click to the right for moreCisco…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Unlikely to Gain human-like Cognition, unless Connected to real World through Robots
Don't agree completely
AI Unlikely to gain human-like cognition, unless connected to real world through robots, says study
by University of Sheffield
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain
Connecting artificial intelligence systems to…From The Eponymous Pickle
Asia's Opportunity for Generative AI
Expected, especially with regard to delivering multi lingual Generative results.
ACM NEWS
Asia's Opportunity for Generative AI
By MIT Technology Review, June 16, 2023
The skyline of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, with a view of Mt. Fuji…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Can Edit Their RNA
This is just crazy:
Scientists don’t yet know for sure why octopuses, and other shell-less cephalopods including squid and cuttlefish, are such prolific editors. Researchers are debating whether this form of genetic editing gave…From insideHPC
Outgoing Exascale Computing Project Director Doug Kothe Takes on New Role at Sandia Labs
Doug Kothe knows about transitions, including transitions on a grand scale. The outgoing director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project helped transition the supercomputing industry into the exascale era…
From Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2023
I’m just back from the sixteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, hosted by Alessandro Acquisti at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
SHB is a small, annual, invitational workshop of people studying various aspects…From The Eponymous Pickle
Good News! China and the US Are Talking About AI Dangers
This apparent change sounds good, if our own Gvt does not stifle us.
Good News! China and the US Are Talking About AI Dangers
ACM NEWS By Wired June 16, 2023
Wherever you stand on the doomsday debate, there’s something nice…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software
Considerable article, excerpt and more below, Good cautions.
A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software
AI-Generated Code exaines
•IEEE Spectrum by Jaideep Vaidya / June 11, 2023
Most recently, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a large-language…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Global Battle to Regulate AI Is Just Beginning
The Global Battle to Regulate AI Is Just Beginning
By Wired, May 11, 2023
At the core of the debate about regulating AI is the question of whether it's possible to limit the risks it presents to societies without stifling the growth…From The Eponymous Pickle
Fungal Architectures and Logical Bacteria
Always had an interest in Fungi, now connecting with computation? Amazing thought. On my list.
Fungal Architectures and Logical Bacteria By Karen Emslie
Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 15, 2023
Brain organoid seen through…From The Eponymous Pickle
Organizing Unstructured Data with Machine Learning
Considering all the data and its uses.
By Esther Shein
Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 8, 2023
Vector databases are efficient for conducting similarity searches, and they are scalable and flexible,Vector…From Computational Complexity
Randomized Acceptances
NeurIPS recently released their 2021 consistency report, a sequel to the 2014 experiment. While the conference has grown dramatically, the results remain "consistent", about 23% disagreement from two separated program committee…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Creating great game worlds
Are you a PUBG or Fortnite addict? Maybe you enjoy playing Minecraft? Have you thought how these games are created? Could you create a game yourself? It is all done using something called a "Game Engine".
From insideHPC
How the U.S. Can Win the Quantum Computing Race
By Rob Hays, CEO, Atom Computing and Kristen Pudenz, Director of Advanced Research Programs, Atom Computing Quantum computing will define the 21st century. It’s a once-in-a-generation, paradigm shift in computation performance…
From The Noisy Channel
How I Became a Micro-Celebrity
In the 1979 movie “The Jerk”, there is a hilarious scene where Navin (played by Steve Martin) becomes excited at the discovery that his name is in print — in the local phone book. He exclaims: “I’m somebody now. Millions of people…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meta Scientist Yann LeCun says AI won't Destroy Jobs Forever
Meta Scientist Yann LeCun says AI won't destroy jobs forever in the BBC
Prof Yann LeCun is known as one of the three godfathers of AI and works as Facebook-owner Meta's top AI scientist By Chris Vallance, Technology …