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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 insideHPC
RISC-V International Announces Agenda for the 3rd Annual RISC-V Summit
The RISC-V International Association has announced the online program for the RISC-V Summit 2020 to be held Tuesday, Dec. 8 to Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. Here’s a...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Peru Defends Its Waters against Chinese Squid Fishing Boats
Squid geopolitics. 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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoom Adding End-to-end Encryption
Been following this for some time. I like Zoom, my favorite to date of the half dozen commonly in use methods I know of. Now even free users can turn on advanced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics Impacting the Bottom Line
Yes, well done, it always has. And further methods like AI, a kind of analytics, does the same. Been doing it for a lifetime. Interesting numbers below.How ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming ACM Talk: Deep Learning and Software Engineering
Plan to attend this ACM talk:VIP Reminder: Nov 2 Talk with fast.ai http://fast.ai/ Co-Founder Jeremy Howard on Applying Software Engineering Practices to Deep....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 29 – Digital Learning with Peter Mirski
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This episode of the podcast is taken from a video interview...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adding a Brain to a Robot
Sounds obvious, but what are the form and function and challenges of such a brain? To be more human, more creative, more engaging? Made me think.How Giving Robots...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Assistants and Health Care
Thoughtful and considerable piece with statistics. Below an intro, much more at the link.How AI Voice Assistants Can Revolutionize Health in TowardsAi by Alan...
From insideHPC
Practical Hardware Design Strategies for Modern HPC Workloads – Part 3
This special research report sponsored by Tyan discusses practical hardware design strategies for modern HPC workloads. As hardware continued to develop, technologies...
From Schneier on Security
IMSI-Catchers from Canada
Gizmodo is reporting that Harris Corp. is no longer selling Stingray IMSI-catchers (and, presumably, its follow-on models Hailstorm and Crossbow) to local governments...
From Computational Complexity
Do not become obsessed with the Polls unless...
I know someone who checks the polls 3 times a day to see who looks like they will be elected prez. She cares A LOT about the election. It is irrelevant to this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fooling Self Driving Autopilots
Had seen this mentioned before, good overview in Schneier. As usual the discussion in the comments there is the most interesting, with experts in the field chiming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Common Sense from Animals
The common sense problem. Intriguing view. Not enough details, but has links to related academic papers.Researchers suggest AI can learn common sense from animals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benchmarking Voice Understanding
Good points made. I have been using Google voice assistant versus Amazon Alexa for a few years now. Only now and then using Siri. I see more 'balking' byUnderstanding...
From The Noisy Channel
Wolf, thank you for these additional points.
Wolf, thank you for these additional points. I agree that Peter Norvig’s post, while very educational, is a starting point to learn about spelling correction but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GM Can Manage an EV's Batteries Wirelessly and Remotely
Seems quite a considerable improvement of automotive battery use and management for electric vehicles.Exclusive: GM Can Manage an EV's Batteries Wirelessly—andThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
European Quantum Computing Facility Goes Online
With some useful statistics about usage and capabilities. Note integration with simulator. Good description of use and testing processes in place.Home/News/First...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Radical Technique Lets AI Learn with Practically No Data
Learning more accurately, efficiently, is always useful.A Radical Technique Lets AI Learn with Practically No DataMIT Technology Review, By Karen Hao, October...
From The Eponymous Pickle
U.S. Government Agencies to Use AI to Cut Outdated Regulations
Makes sense, we examined related methods for regualations.U.S. Government Agencies to Use AI to Cull, Cut Outdated RegulationsReuters, David ShepardsonOctober...
From insideHPC