Communications of the ACM
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February 2023
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Delivers Arm-based 31 PFLOPS HPC System to Japan Meteorological Agency
Fujitsu today announced it has delivered a supercomputer to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) in Tokyo for forecasting “linear rainbands,” which can trigger heavy rain causing landslides and flooding. The JMA said the system…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anomaly Detection, Supervised or Unsupervised. A Space We worked with Key Data
This kind of data is everywhere.
Unsupervised and semi-supervised anomaly detection with data-centric ML
February 08, 2023 In Googleblog
Posted by Jinsung Yoon and Sercan O. Arik, Research Scientists, Google Research, Cloud AI…From The Eponymous Pickle
Release Notes from OpenAI
Useful statements here about what is being done by OpwnAI and updates, The system is still quite slow at times and you still cannot rely on its availability. The link will also take you to other related announcements.
OpenAI…From The Eponymous Pickle
Securing Machine Learning is hard
Via Schneier, with the usual insightful comments.
This is really interesting research from IEEE a few months ago:
Abstract: Given the computational cost and technical expertise required to train machine learning models, users…From The Eponymous Pickle
Meta LLama Shares a New Large Language Model
Meta moves with Language model with better design they say for research. 13 Billion parameters.
Meta Introduces Large Language Model LLaMA as a Competitor for OpenAI
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on February 27, 2023 in Voicebot.AI
Meta has…From insideHPC
AliroNet Chosen as the Network Controller for EPB Quantum Network powered by Qubitekk
BOSTON and CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — February 28, 2022 — Quantum networking company Aliro Quantum today announced that its AliroNet solution has been selected to provide the quantum network controller for the recently announced EPB…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Is Starting to Pick Who Gets Laid Off
It starts, HR takes a step? ...
AI Is Starting to Pick Who Gets Laid Off
By The Washington Post, February 21, 2023
The machine learning software that human resources managers use to analyze employment-related data points for recommendations…From Schneier on Security
Side-Channel Attack against CRYSTALS-Kyber
CRYSTALS-Kyber is one of the public-key algorithms currently recommended by NIST as part of its post-quantum cryptography standardization process.
Researchers have just published a side-channel attack—using power consumption—against…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Reports Progress on Quantum Error Correction
Google reports their progress, key measure of how well such computers will work.
Our progress toward quantum error correction
Feb 22, 2023, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet
Three years ago, our quantum computers were the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Point being made, will Search be completely Revolutionized, and Implications.
One look at this:, what are the key issues? Fren
Generative AI Won’t Revolutionize Search — Yet by Ege Gurdeniz and Kartik Hosanagar in HBR
Summary. Generative AI has the potential to drastically change what users…From insideHPC
Iceotope Teams with HPE, Intel and nVent on Liquid Cooled Open RAN for the Edge
Barcelona, February 27, 2023 — Liquid cooling company Iceotope has announced what it said is a highly efficient and scalable Open RAN solution to support far edge computing across telco data center estates. Created with demanding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snapchat Joins the Chatting Crowd
This means more interesting experimentation, How should it be focused?
Snapchat unveils AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT
BY KYT DOTSON in SiliconAngle
Snap Inc. revealed today that the company plans to jump on the artificial…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Applications Are Open for the 2023 Departmental BPC Plan Workshop: March 19 Deadline
By Roohia Meer, CERP Program Associate Applications are now open for the 2023 Departmental Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plan Workshop. This year’s workshop will be held in Atlanta, GA from May 30th– June 1st in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT provides results
Testing alternative solution:
When ChatGPT was asked about what results it had achieved, and how, it responded:
Here are some key results and statistics related to the development and use of large language models such as ChatGPT…From Computational Complexity
I wish we had less students in a Class. Demographics says I may get my wish.
According to this article, in the near future LESS people will be going to college. There is even a name for this upcoming shift: The Enrollment Cliff. Why?
Is it Covid-related? Is it that College has gotten to expensive? To…From The Eponymous Pickle
Investing in Replicate
More technical elements revealed.
Investing in Replicate by Matt Bornstein in A16z.com
AI, machine & deep learning enterprise & SaaS open source Software development announcements containers Generative AI machine learning…From The Eponymous Pickle
Securing Supply Chains with Quantum Computing
Sandia advances in the possibilities.
Securing Supply Chains with Quantum Computing
Sandia Labs News, February 14, 2023
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories developed a new framework for programming quantum computers that…From The Eponymous Pickle
Software Assembles Complete Genome Sequences On-Demand
Software Assembles Complete Genome Sequences On-Demand
National Human Genome Research Institute
Anna Rogers, February 16, 2023
The Verkko software created by U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers can construct complete…From Schneier on Security
Banning TikTok
Congress is currently debating bills that would ban TikTok in the United States. We are here as technologists to tell you that this is a terrible idea and the side effects would be intolerable. Details matter. There are several…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft has some Problems
Read now read several articles about Bing Chat misbehaving. Have not seen the same thing in plain ChatCPG, Serious stuff to make a mis-statement these days.
ChatGPT, Bing Chat and the AI ghost in the machine
Gary Grossman,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Firm Deploys Robots to Speed Online Shopping
Woman operates the 1MRobotic system which has a hatch from which couriers and shoppers can collect online orders. Israeli
Firm Deploys Robots to Speed Online Shopping
France 24, February 15, 2023
Israeli firm 1MRobotics has built…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Regular Visual Studio versus ClangCL
If you are programming in C++ using Microsoft tools, you can use the traditional Visual Studio compiler. Or you can use LLVM as a front-end (ClangCL). Let us compare their performance characteristics with a fast string transcoding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
VR Games Helping Stroke Patients
Noting Neuralink as an example.
Can mind-controlled VR games help stroke patients? By Zoe Kleinman, Technology editor
A system which can translate human brain activity into actions without any physical movement is being developed…From The Eponymous Pickle
Battery Metals Scramble
Car makers are going mining.
Tesla, GM Among Carmakers Flocking to Mining Events Amid Battery Metals Scramble
February 24, 2023 Bloomberg in SupplyBrainChain
Top automakers including Tesla, General Motors, and Ford are heading…From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on Modeling Influencers
Fascinating piece, Have thought about who 'influencers' are and if they could be reasonably modeled. Twinned? Virtual? Is there also a kind of influencer model akin to a Language model, which show what comes next to influence…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
STOC 2023
STOC 2023 is the 55th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing. It will be held on June 20-23, 2023 in Orlando, Florida. Perhaps the best paper ever at STOC was by Stephen Cook. His 1971 STOC paper The Complexity of Theorem…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu Says it will Integrate Chatbot Ernie Bot into Multiple Products
Latest seen on Baidu's use of AI Chatbots, Baidu seems to be going it alone. Current accessible versions still only in simplified Chinese.
Baidu to integrate ChatGPT-style Ernie Bot across all operations in Asia Nikkei
Chinese…From Geeking with Greg
Too many metrics and the Otis Redding problem
The "Otis Redding problem" is "holding people, groups, or businesses to too many metrics: They can’t satisfy or even think about all of them at once."
The problem is not just that people don't really know what to do anymore.That…From Geeking with Greg
Superhuman AI in the game Go
For a few years now, AI achieved superhuman game playing abilities for Go.
It was quite a milestone for AI. When I was in graduate school, people used to joke that AI for Go was where careers go to die. The game has a massive…From The Eponymous Pickle
Case for and Against Digital Employees
Business landscape is changing rapidly .I wonder how much HR typically knows about digital options, especially with the newly integrated chat capabilities. And how can those capabilities be enhanced with key external specialty…