Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2023
From BLOG@CACM
The Imperativity of Algorithms
The important named algorithms that we call upon deserve a robust ontology.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid vs. Blue Marlin
Epic matchup.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Understanding Parties
Kavin Narasimhan studied how people move and form groups at parties, creating realistic computer models of what is going on. Her work could help avatars and robots behave more realistically, for example.
From The Eponymous Pickle
ChatGPT banned in Italy over privacy, data collection concerns
Unexpected Privacy concerns posed.
Calls have grown in the United States to stop development of the AI technology By Kelsey Koberg
DataGrade founder Joe Toscano and MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider said ChatGPT poses…From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading Minds with AI: Researchers Translate Brain Waves to Images
Quite a considerable capability suggested. in KDNuggets
Reading Minds with AI: Researchers Translate Brain Waves to Images
Two researchers from Osaka University were able to reconstruct highly accurate images from human brain…From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft to Ruin Chat Search?
Ouch if this is the case.
ChatGPT Opened a New Era in Search. Microsoft Could Ruin It
By Wired, March 31, 2023
Microsoft in February announced its standard fees for search data would increase by as much as 10 times starting inGoogle…From The Eponymous Pickle
Should AI Insights be Shared with Consumers, and How?
Interesting thoughts. Are analytic marketing methods shared with consumers? Resources at link.
Should AI Insights Be Shared With Consumers? by Tom Ryan in Retailwire plus expert opinion.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a“Your…From The Eponymous Pickle
Automakers Develop Robot That Charges Your EV for You
Essential? But many things are not
Automakers Develop Robot That Charges Your EV for You
For the EV fence-sitters who find public charging cables too heavy or confusing, Hyundai and Kia have developed a potential solution: the…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A New Tiling
With a flip and some twists Roger Penrose has been floored. And perhaps re-floored. Here he is standing on the floor of the Mitchell Institute of Texas A&M, which features one of the famous aperiodic tilings he discovered in…
From Schneier on Security
Russian Cyberwarfare Documents Leaked
Now this is interesting:
Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC at AAAS: Surveillance, Assistance or Hinderance?: Caregiving Technologies for Older Adults Panel Recap
On the second day of the 2023 AAAS Annual Meeting, held in Washington, DC, the CCC supported its first of 6 panels, titled, Surveillance, Assistance or Hinderance?: Caregiving Technologies for Older Adults. The three panelists…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Early Adopters Can Teach Us About AI
Some good thoughts.
What Early Adopters Can Teach Us About AI
Interview with Thomas H. Davenport in APQC
ChatGPT burst upon the AI landscape in November 2022 with a media and market frenzy not seen since Steve Jobs introduced…From insideHPC
Oregon Bill Would Penalize Data Centers for Failure to Meet Emissions Requirements Starting in 2027
A bill before the Oregon state legislature would penalize data centers for not meeting emissions standards starting in 2027 and could — if approved in Oregon and similar measures are adopted by other states — have significant…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Training/Testing Data?
Interesting, was wondering which training data was used where, and the consequences. Is that readily testable?
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/TECH/GOOGLE
Google denies Bard was trained with ChatGPT data
The Information published a report…From The Eponymous Pickle
Unexpected Lunar Water Discovered
Easier colonization possible?
Lunar Water Reservoir Discovered in Glass Impact Beads
Tiny glass beads scattered across the Moon may contain enough water to sustain future crewed missions.
By Ryan Whitwam March 28, 2023No humansIn…From The Eponymous Pickle
Early Looks at Ernie
No direct testing seen yet.
Baidu Unveils Generative AI Ernie Bot With Pre-Recorded Videos, Disappointing Investors,
Eric Hal Schwartz in Voicebot.ai
Baidu introduced its generative Ernie Bot in a series of video presentations…From The Eponymous Pickle
Comm Network for the Moon
Spreading Space Networks.
Lockheed Spinoff Plans to Build Communication Network for the Moon
Crescent Space will begin deploying its Parsec satellites in orbit on the Moon in 2025.
By Ryan Whitwam March 30, 2023
Humankind has been…From CERIAS Blog
Serious CERIAS Recognition
At the 25th anniversary CERIAS Symposium on March 29, we made a special awards presentation.
Unfortunately, I had lost my voice. Joel Rasmus read my remarks (reproduced below). I want to stress they were heartfelt from all …From CERIAS Blog
Serious CERIAS Recognition
At the 25th anniversary CERIAS Symposium on March 29, we made a special awards presentation.
Unfortunately, I had lost my voice. Joel Rasmus read my remarks (included in what follows). I want to stress that these comments …From The Eponymous Pickle
A Call to Pause 'Giant AI Experiments'
Shall we pause, will every one? For 6 months. Dangerous? What difference will it make?
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/TECH
Elon Musk and top AI researchers call for pause on ‘giant AI experiments’
An open letter says the currentBy…From The Eponymous Pickle
Industrial Metaverse
A transparent collection of interacting digital Twins?
HUMANS AND TECHNOLOGY
The emergent industrial metaverse
An interface between the real and digital worlds will transform how we work, live, and interact.
By MIT Technology Review…From insideHPC
BNP Paribas to Move More IT Infrastructure to atNorth HPC Data Center
Stockholm – 28 March 2023 – atNorth, a pan-Nordic colocation, HPC and AI service provider, has announced that financial institution BNP Paribas continues to move portions of its workloads to the Nordic region. The migration of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter is Dying?
Doubt it, I still get an overload of tweets, mostly tech and not politics Get the impression that many still live there.
Natasha Lomas@riptari / 8:20 AM EDT•March 28, 2023
It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid…From The Eponymous Pickle
Teslas Being Hacked for $$
A well known kind of security breach worked on a Tesla. Big finding reward. Expected to be remotely fixed.
Pwn2Own Hackers Breach a Tesla Twice, By PC Magazine, March 29, 2023
Tesla’s security response team validated the results…From The Eponymous Pickle
More Details, but Not Enough
Interesting point, but do not fully understand. Posting to be revisited.
By Gregory Goth, Commissioned by CACM Staff, March 29, 2023
Nearly two years since the publication of the paper in Nature,The…From insideHPC
Networking Chip Startup Enfabrica Emerges from Stealth, Reports 50X Memory Expansion in Clusters for AI and HPC
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – MARCH 28, 2023 – Enfabrica Corporation, a startup building networking silicon and software for AI and accelerated computing workloads, today emerged from stealth mode to announce a class of chips called…
From Computational Complexity
Alan Turing, The Opera
From insideHPC
IBM Cloud Direct Link Available on Cologix Access Marketplace
DENVER – March 29, 2023 — Cologix, a network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data center company, today announced that IBM Cloud Direct Link is now available on Cologix Access Marketplace, the company’s Software-Defined…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoom IQ Updates
Zoom IQ Does some Interesting Tool things. Note taking interesting.
Zoom IQ Assistant Adds Generative AI Tools Fueled by Multiple LLMs
Eric Hal Schwartz on March 27, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Zoom has unveiled a new suite of generative…From Schneier on Security
The Security Vulnerabilities of Message Interoperability
Jenny Blessing and Ross Anderson have evaluated the security of systems designed to allow the various Internet messaging platforms to interoperate with each other:
The Digital Markets Act ruled that users on different platforms…