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Conversations on AI in Education
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Conversations on AI in Education

Pat Yongpradit from Code.Org tweeted an image of what they are seeing in conversations about AI and Education. (The link on the image below goes to that tweet)Now...

Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning

 But not there yet.Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human ReasoningBy The New York Times, May 17, 2023Microsoft researchers in March published a 155-pageWhen...

Super Low-Cost Smartphone Attachment Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Fingertips
From The Eponymous Pickle

Super Low-Cost Smartphone Attachment Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Fingertips

 Remember being told this was effectively impossible.Super Low-Cost Smartphone Attachment Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your FingertipsBy UC San Diego Today...

Snowden Ten Years Later
From Schneier on Security

Snowden Ten Years Later

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. But I had a more personal...

CSET Releases Reports to Help Organizations Implement Responsible AI
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CSET Releases Reports to Help Organizations Implement Responsible AI

With the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its increasingly ubiquitous role in society, the Biden administration, a multitude of government agencies and...

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

Can we be doing Consumer market research with Generative AI?    Something we thought about in the 80s.With exactly these consumer products.  So are we close enough...

HPE Announces GreenLake Sustainability Dashboard for Carbon Footprint Reduction
From insideHPC

HPE Announces GreenLake Sustainability Dashboard for Carbon Footprint Reduction

HOUSTON – June 5, 2023 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the preview of a sustainability dashboard on the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform...

@HPCpodcast: A Look Back at ISC 2023 with a Look Ahead to the Uncertain Future of Leadership-Class Supercomputing
From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: A Look Back at ISC 2023 with a Look Ahead to the Uncertain Future of Leadership-Class Supercomputing

In this Lenovo-sponsored episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin and Doug discuss the recent annual ISC 2023 HPC confab in Hamburg, a conference that this year showed...

AI Chatbots Lose Money Every Time You Use Them. That's a Problem.
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Chatbots Lose Money Every Time You Use Them. That's a Problem.

Fascinating aspect. Thinking impact. AI Chatbots Lose Money Every Time You Use Them. That's a Problem.By The Washington Post, June 5, 2023ChatGPT running on a smartphone...

Verne Global Receives $100M Loan from Digital 9
From insideHPC

Verne Global Receives $100M Loan from Digital 9

According to a news report from Alliance News, Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC on Monday said it signed a USD$100 million green loan debt facility for Verne Global...

Wharton:  On the Rise of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wharton: On the Rise of AI

PodcastWharton Ripple Effect Rise of AI: How Do We Coexist With Algorithms?THIS EPISODE   Professor Kartik Hosanagar discusses how AI is impacting the world as...

Training Machines for Uncertain Real-World Simulations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Training Machines for Uncertain Real-World Simulations

 Uncertainty a key aspect.  Training Machines for Uncertain Real-World SituationsMIT NewsAdam Zewe, May 31, 2023An algorithm developed by researchers at the Massachusetts...

Sweden is developing its own big language model
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sweden is developing its own big language model

 More Language models.Sweden is developing its own big language modelArtificial Intelligence Sweden is leading an initiative to build a large language model not...

The Software-Defined Car
From Schneier on Security

The Software-Defined Car

Developers are starting to talk about the software-defined car. For decades, features have accumulated like cruft in new vehicles: a box here to control the antilock...

The gender shades audit
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

The gender shades audit

Face recognition technology is used widely, such as at passport controls and by police forces. What if it isn't as good at recognising faces as it has been claimed...

Bing Using Chatbit Bing to Answer Questions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bing Using Chatbit Bing to Answer Questions

ChatGPT Using Bing to Answer QuestionsERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on May 23, 2023 at 1:00 pmChatGPT will start sourcing answers using Bing, Microsoft announced at its Build...

Quantum Computer Tackles Airport Problem
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Computer Tackles Airport Problem

Classic Problem.Quantum Computer Tackles Airport ProblemBy Popular ScienceMay 11, 2023Is there an optimal way to assign flights to gates?An international team of...

From Computational Complexity

Quantifiers: To Parenthesize or not to Parenthesize? Matrix of Formula: To Bracket or not to Bracket?

 For the book Computational  Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Boundsby Demaine-Gasarch-Hajiaghayi (See  here for a link to a first draft.) we had to...

AI and ML Sturm und Drang
From CERIAS Blog

AI and ML Sturm und Drang

I recently wrote up some thoughts on the current hype around ML and AI. I sent it to the Risks Digest. Peter Neumann (the moderator) published a much-abbreviated...

Playing the weighting game
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Playing the weighting game

How do search engines find the best web pages. It is like a giant talent contest where you want the best web pages to win. Karen Spärck Jones worked out how best...
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