Communications of the ACM
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June 2023
From Schneier on Security
Identifying the Idaho Killer
The New York Times has a long article on the investigative techniques used to identify the person who stabbed and killed four University of Idaho students.
Pay attention to the techniques:
The case has shown the degree to which…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Is Writing Code Now. For Companies, That Is Good and Bad
https://cacm.acm.org/news/273482-ai-is-writing-code-now-for-companies-that-is-good-and-bad/fulltext
ACM NEWS
AI Is Writing Code Now. For Companies, That Is Good and Bad
By The Wall Street Journal, June 1, 2023
Efforts to automate…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Introduces new features—called Search Generative Experience
New Search in Retail
Google Introduces new features—called Search Generative Experience by Tom Ryan in Retailwire
Google last week introduced a new set of features—called Search Generative Experience—that deliver AI-generated…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Diplomacy with China?
One Key Challenge for Diplomacy on AI: China’s Military Does Not Want to Talk
Commentary by Gregory C. Allen in Csis.com
Published May 20, 2022
Over the past 10 years, artificial intelligence (AI) technology has become increasingly…From BLOG@CACM
Two Models of AI Oversight — and How Things Could Go Deeply Wrong
It's good that governments are stepping up, but some of the signals are deeply worrisome.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Low-Cost Human Biomarker Sensors Designs
Low-Cost Human Biomarker Sensors Designs
Penn State News
Ashley Wenners Herron, May 31, 2023
Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) engineers have designed RNA-based human biomarker sensors that, for about US$1, can conduct…From The Eponymous Pickle
Who is Liable for AI Design?
Ultimately a big issue
Who Is Liable for A.I. Creations? By The New York Times, June 5, 2023
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Said Eric Goldman, a law professor at Santa Clara University, “The blossoming of AI comes at one of the most precarious…From BLOG@CACM
The Hadoop Ecosystem's Continued Impact
Hadoop owed much to the Google GFS, MapReduce, and BigTable papers, but it was also a response to a broader technology community need.
From insideHPC
atNorth Opens Sixth Nordic Data Center
Reykjavík, Iceland – June 9th, 2023 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced that their third Iceland data center, ICE03, is now fully operational…
From insideHPC
Beyond Limits and IQM Quantum Announce APAC Partnership
SINGAPORE, 12th JUNE 2023 – Beyond Limits, an enterprise-grade AI software company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with IQM Quantum Computers, a European quantum computer company, designed to drive the advancement of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Salesforce adds Generative AI Support Across its Application Portfolio
Another AI added example. Worth examining closely.
Salesforce Adds generative AI support Across its Application Portfolio By Paul Gillin
Salesforce Inc. today is jumping aboard the generative artificial intelligence trainGenerative…From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithm Uses Phone Camera, AI to Detect Blood Oxygen Levels
Ai driven algorithm captures blood oxygen levels on Smartphone. Note 'Hyperspectral Learning'.
Algorithm Uses Phone Camera to Detect Blood Oxygen Levels
By Purdue University, June 9, 2023
A smartphone camera paired with an AI-driven…From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
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Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
By Peter J. Denning
Communications of the ACM, June 2023, Vol. 66 No. 6, Pages 24-27 10.1145/3592981
In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a major step…From Schneier on Security
AI-Generated Steganography
New research suggests that AIs can produce perfectly secure steganographic images:
Abstract: Steganography is the practice of encoding secret information into innocuous content in such a manner that an adversarial third party…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 11 2023)
Similar species can have vastly different lifespan. Researchers have been looking for the limiting factors that explain these differences. As we age, our genes are expressed differently through methylation. Different speciesContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nnaisense: Machine Learning
Brought to my attention. Via Jurgen Schmidhuber https://nnaisense.com/
Nnaisense.com: World-leading machine learning that unlocks the full power of IIoT/Industry 4.0
Naisense: 'Where AI Meets the Industry'
Inspection
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Build Bee Robot That Can Twist
Researchers Build Bee Robot That Can Twist
By WSU Insider, June 1, 2023
The Bee++ prototype.
With four wings made out of carbon fiber and mylar as well as four light-weight actuators to control each wing, the Bee++ prototype can…From The Eponymous Pickle
ServiceNow and NVIDIA Announce Partnership to Build Generative AI Across Enterprise IT
Generative Workflow
ServiceNow and NVIDIA Announce Partnership to Build Generative AI Across Enterprise IT
Built on ServiceNow Platform With NVIDIA AI Software and DGX Infrastructure, Custom Large Language Models to Bring Intelligent…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
Researchers Say they Found Spyware Used in War
ACM NEWS
Researchers Say they Found Spyware Used in War for the First Time
By TechCrunch May 25, 2023
Said Samvel Farmanyan, co-founder and host of an opposition television program in Armenia, “It is not only a clear violation of…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bots are Here
ACM NEWS
The Chatbots Are Here, and the Internet Industry Is in a Tizzy
By The New York Times,March 8, 2023
The volatility of chatbots has made it impossible to predict their impact. The result is an industry gripped with the question…From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Blog Directory
I discovered late , the SAS Blog directory, which contains lots of useful posts of interest including optimization, AI, Automation, Machine Learning, Data science and much more. We worked with SAS from the early days. Will try…
From Computational Complexity
Posting a book online with a password- that you broadcast.
Recently Lance, at the request of Vijay Vazirani, tweeted the following (I paraphrase)
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Online and Matching-based Market Design book now available…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft 365 Copilot Infuses Generative AI Into Every Office App
I have never used it this way as yet, but useful it would seem. Clippy, mentioned below, I do remember using.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Infuses Generative AI Into Every Office App
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on March 16, 2023 in Voicebot.ai…From The Eponymous Pickle
Games Developed by AI
Weisman announced Adventure Forge, a powerful toolset aimed at empowering game masters, storytellers, authors, and artists to create their own narrative-rich video games, with no coding required. It uses…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Would You Take Financial Advice From A.I.?
Sttill waiting for a good opportunity.
Would You Take Financial Advice From an A.I.?
By The New York Times, May 22, 2023
As of now, the technology is promising, but its not 100% accurate.
Even if you don’t think you’re familiar…From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Provides some Vision
Finally some leaks/hints about what Apple will sell as head/eye ware. Will we buy? Liked the idea, even had some use cases long ago, can they still fly? AI integration ideas?
Apple VR/AR mixed reality headset vs Apple Glass…From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain Investments in Tech
Where Are Retail Supply Chain Investments Heading?
16 EXPERT COMMENTSGARTNER OPTIMIZE PIONEER SCALE Simon Jacbson Supply Chain
May 16, 2023, by Tom Ryan in Retalwire
A Gartner global survey of 499 supply chain leaders taken“The…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Light-Emitting Squid
It’s a Taningia danae:
Their arms are lined with two rows of sharp retractable hooks. And, like most deep-sea squid, they are adorned with light organs called photophores. They have some on the underside of their mantle. There…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Free Intro Generative AI Course
Google Just Released a FREE introductory Generative AI Course
Here’s everything you need to know about Google’s generative AI learning path.
Via The PyCoach Artificial Corner, fromThe PyCoach: https://artificialcorner.com…