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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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 surveyPUBLISHED FRI, JUN 23 2023...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Old Maps into 3D Digital Models of Lost Neighborhoods
Nice idea for the use of modelingTurning Old Maps into 3D Digital Models of Lost NeighborhoodsBy Ohio State News, June 30, 2023 A three-dimensional model of the...
From Computational Complexity
Chernoff Turns 100
Guest post by Ravi BoppanaHerman Chernoff celebrates a milestone today: he turns 100 years old. We in theoretical computer science know Professor Chernoff primarily...
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bill Gates, along with Eric Schmidt and Nvidia, just minted another A.I. unicorn
More supercomputers staged for AI.Bill Gates, along with Eric Schmidt and Nvidia, just minted another A.I. unicorn in a massive $1.3 billion funding roundThe maker...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A New AKS
An award for attacking an NP-hard problem Miklós Ajtai, Ravi Kumar, and D. Sivakumar were among winners of the ACM STOC 2023 “Test of Time” Awards. The award recognized...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Bitten blue
For some reason biting flies home in on some people while leaving others (even those walking next to them) alone. What is going on, what does it have to do with...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: See-Through Squid
Doryteuthis opalescens is known as the market squid, and was critical in the recent squid RNA research. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
From Geeking with Greg
Attacking the economics of scams and misinformation
We see so many scams and so much misinformation on the internet because it is profitable. It's cheap to create bogus accounts. It's cheap to use hordes of accounts...
From insideHPC
22,000 GPUs: Inflection AI Building 22 exaFLOPS Generative AI Cluster
Palo Alto-based startup Inflection AI yesterday said it is building the world’s largest AI cluster comprised of 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs that will deliver...
From insideHPC
Leostream Announces Features Designed for Improved HPC on AWS EC2
BOSTON, MASS. – Leostream, a remote desktop access platform provider, has announced features designed to improve high-performance computing and imaging/video workloads...
From insideHPC
The Energy Advantage of Quantum Computers
By Yuval Boger, Chief Marketing Officer, QuEra Computing Inc. While quantum computers will ultimately be able to solve problems that no classical supercomputerThe...
From The Noisy Channel
Facets: Constraints or Preferences?
When my colleagues and I at Endeca started working on faceted search in 1999, our model of the search journey was that most searchers start with broadly expressed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jizai Body Robotics Based on Asian Thought
Completely new to me, despite our long look at Asian tech. EAST ASIA AND OCEANIA REGION SPECIAL SECTION: HOT TOPICSJIZAI Body: Human-Machine Integration Based on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More People Are Going Blind. AI Can Help Fight It
More unexpected solutions via AI, so why not restrict its use as much as possible? Fearmongering.More People Are Going Blind. AI Can Help Fight ItBy Wired, June...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Researchers Make a Quantum Computing Leap with a Magnetic Twist
ACM TECHNEWSResearchers Make a Quantum Computing Leap with a Magnetic TwistBy University of Washington News, June 29, 2023An artistic depiction showing electron...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Doctors Train in Virtual Reality
Doctors Train in Virtual RealityBy Jake WidmanCommissioned by CACM Staff, June 22, 2023Surgeons collaborate during virtual surgery.In addition to relevant tools...
From Schneier on Security
The US Is Spying on the UN Secretary General
The Washington Post is reporting that the US is spying on the UN Secretary General. The reports on Guterres appear to contain the secretary general’s personal conversations...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Releases Guidelines for Research Security Analytics Practices
Originally posted on Computing Research Policy Blog by Brian Mosley Last week the National Science Foundation released their long-anticipated guidelines covering...
From The Eponymous Pickle