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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
ALCF Data Science Program Awards 4 Projects
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) recently awarded computing time and resources to three new projects and one renewed project for 2021-2022, through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford Chatbot Study
Mostly obvious results, but useful characterizations. We leveraged a 'concierge' model being most important, how do you get people to the right humans, the ones...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA Executive Director Andrew Bernat Announces Retirement
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sad to announce the retirement of CRA Executive Director Andrew Bernat. Bernat was instrumental in the development of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft in China Retail Tech?
Had visited Microsoft's retail tech facility in the past.Microsoft Pushes into Growing Grocery Tech Market with Deal in ChinaCNBC, Evelyn Cheng, May 20, 2021 Microsoft's...
From insideHPC
UL Joins Open Compute Project to Further Enable Data Center and Enterprise System Designs
Northbrook, Ill., May 24, 2021 — UL, the global safety science leader, today announced that it has joined the Open Compute Project (OCP). UL joined the organization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China to Ban Bitcoin Mining
Surprising, perhaps? What are the details? China will likely ban all bitcoin mining soonCountry’s top financial regulator homes in on the source. By Tim De...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
ACM Athena Lecturer Award
It was never about winning medals or being famous—Nancy Kerrigan Award page Ayanna Howard is this year’s winner of the ACM Athena Lecturer Award. She works in robotics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Events
Don't like 'rules' in particular, but reasonable considerations in some context of use:10 rules for any executive navigating the new world of virtual conferences...
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Explaining AI in Context
Not to say I am using the connection with autonomous cars, but am very much into how we explain with AI in all sorts of contexts. We built some AI systems in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Matrix Multiplication Inches Closer to Mythic Goal
Mentioned previously, here a little more succinctly. Technical. Matrix Multiplication Inches Closer to Mythic Goal By Quanta Magazine, March 24, 2021A paper...
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to How Expert Design Engineering and a Building Block Approach Can Give You a Perfectly Tailored AI, ML or HPC Environment – Part 3
In this insideHPC technology guide, “How Expert Design Engineering and a Building Block Approach Can Give You a Perfectly Tailored AI, ML or HPC Environment,”we...
From The Noisy Channel
AI for Query Understanding
In the past decade, the incredible progress in word embeddings and deep learning has fueled an interest in neural information retrieval. An increasing number of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
England Vaccine Passport
Some intriguing details of the approach in playWhat England’s new vaccine passport could mean for covid tech’s next actAs more countries roll out systems for proving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Technical Introduction to the Concept and Value of Batteries
What has kept us fluidly moving around, in all sorts of contexts, by storing energy and providing it as needed to an increasing number of devices, large and small...
From Schneier on Security
AIs and Fake Comments
This month, the New York state attorney general issued a report on a scheme by “U.S. Companies and Partisans [to] Hack Democracy.” This wasn’t another attempt by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Editorial Thoughts on Blog Posts Here
Editorial description of articles in this Blog. Most posts usually consist of these parts: 1.) A title that describes the essence of the article 2.) A comment...
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UK Navy Sub Commanded by AI
An autonomous sub example, first I have seen of such size and operational autonomy.The (UK) Navy sub commanded by artificial intelligence By Michael Dempsey in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoom Rooms and Alexa for Business
Alexa linking with Zoom Room Appliances. Collaboration with Zoo, Voice control of meeting management. Expanding the uses of Amazon for Business. A good movement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Robots in Retail
A topic we have covered here for a long time, both in surveys and actual lab trials and experiments.Pandemic is Pushing Robots into Retail at Unprecedented Pace...
From Putting People First