Communications of the ACM
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June 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generative AI at Mayo
AI in Healthcare at Mayo Clinic. A good example for an example of data workflow.
Mayo Clinic Partners With Google Cloud to Bring Generative AI to Healthcare
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on June 8, 2023 at 8:00 am
The Mayo Clinic is working…From The Eponymous Pickle
DeepMind AI's new way to sort objects could speed up global computing
DeepMind AI's new way to sort objects could speed up global computing
Sorting algorithms are basic functions used constantly by computers around the world, so an improved one created by an artificial intelligence could make millions…From insideHPC
TSMC Reports May 2023 Revenue Down 4.9% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Jun. 09, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for May 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for May 2023 was approximately NT$176.54 billion, an increase of 19.4 percent…
From Putting People First
[Book] Thinking with Your Hands
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In Thinking with Your Hands, esteemed cognitive psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow argues that gesture is vital to how we think, learn, and communicate.
From insideHPC
Huawei OceanStor Pacific Scale-Out Storage Tops IO500 Rankings
The release of the latest IO500 ranking, the world's most authoritative storage performance metric, revealed that the Cheeloo-1 system led the way in the 10-node rankings, thanks to the system's use of Huawei OceanStor Pacific…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Hallucinating chatbots
Chatbots that can answer questions and write things for you are in the news at the moment. These Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs are very good now at writing about all sorts of things from composing songs and stories to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of the Humanoid Robot
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Humanoid Robots Are Coming of Age
By Wired, May 25, 2023
Eight years ago, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized a painful-to-watch contest…From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA, Partners Achieve Fastest Space-to-Ground Laser Comms Link
NASA, Partners Achieve Fastest Space-to-Ground Laser Comms Link
NASA, May 11, 2023
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in partnership with satellite-based solutions provider Terran Orbital and the Massachusetts…From Schneier on Security
Operation Triangulation: Zero-Click iPhone Malware
Kaspersky is reporting a zero-click iOS exploit in the wild:
Mobile device backups contain a partial copy of the filesystem, including some of the user data and service databases. The timestamps of the files, folders and the…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing IP addresses crazily fast
Most of us are familiar with IP addresses: they are strings of the form “ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd” where ddd is a decimal number of up to three digits in the range 0 to 255. For example, 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.2. Each of the four number…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Human Extinction?
And some counter-arguments Hava Siegelmann is the Provost Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at U.Mass. Amherst. She returned in 2019 from serving as a DARPA Program Director. Her work at DARPA…
From insideHPC
TSMC Opens Backend Fab 6 for Expansion of 3DFabric System Integration
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C, Jun. 8, 2023—TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced the opening of its Advanced Backend Fab 6, the company’s first all-in-one automated advanced packaging and testing fab to realize 3DFabric integration…
From insideHPC
Applause Announces Generative AI Training, Testing and Validation through Crowdtesting Services
Boston – June 08, 2023 – Testing and digital quality company Applause today announced capabilities in assisting clients with the training, testing and validation of generative AI models. Applause has been empowering global organizations…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Kunle Olukotun Receives ACM – IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society announced Kunle Olukotun, a Professor at Stanford University and former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) workshop organizer, as the recipient of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generative AI is Coming for Insurance (May 2023 Fintech Newsletter) with GPT Definitions.
A good indicator is usually how investment or insurance reacts.
Generative AI is Coming for Insurance (May 2023 Fintech Newsletter)
by Joe Schmidt, Sumeet Singh, and Seema Amble
fintech Generative AI
By Andreessen Horowitz
TABLE…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Protecting your fridge
Ever been spammed by your fridge? It has happened, but Queen Mary's Gokop Goteng and Hadeel Alrubayyi aim to make it less likely with their work on detecting malware taking inspiration from our immune systems.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Delivery Robotics
Followed this for years, seemed to often miss out in human interaction.
Uber Eats Food-Delivery Robots Set for Use in Multiple U.S. Cities
By New Atlas. June 7, 2023
A customer accepts a food delivery from a Serve Robotics robot…From The Eponymous Pickle
Fostering AI Common Sense: The need for Critical Thinking and Healthy Skepticism
Very important, SAS
Fostering AI common sense: The need for critical thinking and healthy skepticism
by REGGIE TOWNSEND on MAY 25, 2023
As AI rapidly advances over the next several years, I’ve been fortunate to have an active…From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaverse Education Blossoms in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan
Interesting, but have by doubts on ultimate efficiency.
Metaverse Education Blossoms in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan
Nikkei Asia (Japan)
Dylan Loh, May 8, 2023
Schools and other organizations in Asia are using the metaverse as an instructional…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Global Battle to Regulate AI Is Just Beginning
Where is it all going?
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 societiesDan…From insideHPC
Quantum Brilliance Releases Open-Source Software for Miniature Quantum Computers
SYDNEY, June 8, 2023 — Quantum Brilliance, developer of miniaturised, room-temperature quantum computing products, today announced the release of Qristal SDK, an open-source software development kit for researching applications…
From Schneier on Security
Paragon Solutions Spyware: Graphite
Paragon Solutions is yet another Israeli spyware company. Their product is called “Graphite,” and is a lot like NSO Group’s Pegasus. And Paragon is working with what seems to be US approval:
American approval, even if indirect…From insideHPC
Monster API Says Its Platform Cuts AI Development Costs Up to 90%
Palo Alto, Calif., June 8, 2023 – Today Monster API is launching its platform to provide developers access to GPU infrastructure and pre-trained AI models at a lower cost than other cloud-based options, designed to deliver ease…
From insideHPC
Multicore Processor Design Pioneer Prof. Kunle Olukotun Receives ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award
New York, June 7, 2023 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Kunle Olukotun, a professor at Stanford University, is the recipient of the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions and leadership…
From insideHPC
Stony Brook Univ. to Deploy HPE Supercomputer Powered by Intel
New York’s Stony Brook University has announced it will soon deploy an Intel-powered HPE supercomputer for science and engineering research across multidisciplinary fields, including engineering, physics, the social sciences
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Salesforce is Playing AI too
Salesforce doubles down on generative AI with Marketing GPT and Commerce GPT
Shubham Sharma @shubham_719
June 7, 2023 9:07 AM
Today, CRM giant Salesforce debuted two new generative AI products. Announced at the company’s ongoing…From insideHPC
For DoD Only: AWS Announces Snowblade Edge Device
June 6, 2023 — Amazon Web Services announced the availability of AWS Snowblade for the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract customers. It is designed to provide AWS compute, storage and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Being Used
Its here, being used.
McKinsey says ‘about half’ of its employees are using generative AI
By Carl Franzen @carlfranzen, June 6, 2023 9:45 AM
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating…From The Eponymous Pickle
Wordpress Does AI with Jetpack
An AI writing assistant from Wordpress. Yet another skip forward of potential use.
Wordpress' Jetpack AI will write your blog posts for you
Jetpack AI is built into the content management system.
Mariella Moon|@mariella_moon|June…From The Eponymous Pickle
How Do We Know if a Text Is AI-generated?
Useful thoughts, click through for all of it.
How Do We Know if a Text Is AI-generated?
Different Statistical Approaches to Detecting AI-generated Text.
By Sara A. Metwalli, in Towards Data Science
·In the fascinating and rapidly…