Communications of the ACM
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July 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
Truth Decay
In Rand.Org Useful, long piece, see link.
Truth Decay Is Putting U.S. National Security at Risk, June 28, 2023
America's troubled relationship with facts is putting national security at risk. A recent RAND paper warned thatExperts…From The Eponymous Pickle
Computer-Related Risks and Remediation Challenges
Deep, even beyond AI, getting deeper?
Computer-Related Risks and Remediation Challenges
By Peter G. Neumann
Communications of the ACM, June 2023, Vol. 66 No. 6, Pages 28-30 10.1145/3593005
Credit: Zamurovic Brothers
This Inside…From The Eponymous Pickle
Economic Potential of AI
From McKinsey: The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
Generative AI’s impact on productivity could add trillions of dollars…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Companionship
Expected.
“The great thing about AI is that it is constantly evolving. One day it will be better than a real [girlfriend]. One day, the real one will be the inferior choice.”
This quote is from one of more than…From Schneier on Security
Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels
Police are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence:
While security cameras are commonplace in American cities, self-driving cars represent a new level of access for law enforcement and a new method for encroachment…From The Eponymous Pickle
VR Suit Could Help You 'Feel' Things in the Metaverse
Talked this from a customer perspective.
VR Suit Could Help You 'Feel' Things in the Metaverse
By EuroNews, June 26, 2023
A test subject in the immersive reality suit.
The suit's artificial muscles feel similar to human muscles and…From The Eponymous Pickle
What is a Virtual Power Plant?
Brought to my attention ...
Virtual Power Plant from www.next-kraftwerke.com
How to Network Distributed Energy Resources
A Virtual Power Plant (VPP) is a network of decentralized, medium-scale power generating units as well as…From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking Beyond LLM
Looking beyond, fascinating
Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications
by Matt Bornstein and Rajko Radovanovic
AI, machine & deep learning enterprise & SaaS AI Generative AI machine learning
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The stack
DesignData…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI's Invisible Foe: Confronting the Challenge of Digital 'Dark Matter'
DNAs Dark matter?
AI's Invisible Foe: Confronting the Challenge of Digital 'Dark Matter'
By Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, June 30, 2023
A surplus of extraneous information, or ‘noise’, has been obscuring crucial features in AI…From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT-based AI apps startup aims to Block Supply Chain Attacks with advanced Cybersecurity
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MIT-based AI apps startup aims to block supply chain attacks with advanced cybersecurity
Louis Columbus @LouisColumbus
June 15, 2023 10:07 AM
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12 and learn how business leaders…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tiny robot could Stop Bleeding from inside the Body using heat
Tiny robot could stop bleeding from inside the body using heat Max Planck
A centimetre-sized robot with a soft body and metallic scales inspired by pangolins can stop bleeding or destroy cells from inside the body using heat…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Benchmarks
AI benchmarks: A new paper challenges the status quo of evaluating artificial intelligence
Ben Dickson @BenDee983
June 13, 2023 6:00 AM
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has made remarkable progress in performing…From The Eponymous Pickle
The Boundary Between Human Language and ChatGPT Is Fuzzier Than You Think
The Boundary Between Human Language and ChatGPT Is Fuzzier Than You Think
By Brendan H. O'Connor
June 12, 2023 in Singularity Hub
ChatGPT is a hot topic at my university, where faculty members are deeply concerned about academic…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era: IBM
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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing time stamps faster with SIMD instructions
In software, it is common to represent time as a time-stamp string. It is usually specified by a time format string. Some standards use the format %Y%m%d%H%M%S meaning that we print the year, the month, the day, the hours, the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Economic Potential of Generative AI: The next Productivity Frontier
McKinsey takes an always useful look at the future of technology I follow
The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier by Mckinsey
June 14, 2023 | Report
Generative AI is poised to unleash the next wave…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Spending Boom Extends
Good view of directions in industry
A.I. is now the biggest spend for nearly 50% of top tech executives across the economy: CNBC survey
PUBLISHED FRI, JUN 23 2023
47% of top technology officers across the economy, encompassing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Old Maps into 3D Digital Models of Lost Neighborhoods
Nice idea for the use of modeling
Turning Old Maps into 3D Digital Models of Lost Neighborhoods
By Ohio State News, June 30, 2023
A three-dimensional model of the Driving Park neighborhood in Columbus in 1961, before it was destroyed…From Computational Complexity
Chernoff Turns 100
Herman Chernoff celebrates a milestone today: he turns 100 years old.
We in theoretical computer science know Professor Chernoff primarily for his ubiquitous Chernoff bounds. The Chernoff bound is…From The Eponymous Pickle
Insights GPT Empowers Customers with Deeper Context and New ways to Deliver Faster, Trusted Insights
Noted this, also in Youtube. Can see more in this direction, and further tailored for specific businesses.
Insights GPT empowers customers with deeper context and new ways to deliver faster, trusted insights from vast volumes…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bill Gates, along with Eric Schmidt and Nvidia, just minted another A.I. unicorn
More supercomputers staged for AI.
The maker of the Pi chatbot plans to build one of the world’s biggestBy…