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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
Emergent AI by Minimizing Chaos
Article is ultimately quite technical, but the basic proposal is interesting. A way to predict, measure, drive particular goals that lead to behaviors? Intriguing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI Transparency Risk Paradox
Risk is not thought of formally enough. And the point made in the article points out that to do current AI med\methods you need more data, but more data creates...
From Schneier on Security
Lousy IoT Security
DTEN makes smart screens and whiteboards for videoconferencing systems. Forescout found that their security is terrible: In total, our researchers discovered five...
From insideHPC
Orion Supercomputer comes to Mississippi State University
Today Mississippi State University and the NOAA celebrated one of the country’s most powerful supercomputers with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Orion supercomputer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart's Digital Brand Strategy Sputter
Not sure it did, but some rethinking seems to be at hand. Even now I think of it as a company seeking a more affluent and tech savvy base. Seems like a good...
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Delivering Butter, Autonomously
Had no 'disengagements' that required the self-driving system needed to be interrupted.A Self-Driving Truck Delivered Butter from California to Pennsylvania inThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon, Apple, Google work with Zigbee Alliance
Had not heard of this particular alliance, would seem there is still considerable competition regarding ecosystems.Amazon, Apple and Google join in smart home alliance...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Provides Transportation Industry Access to its DNNs for Autonomous Vehicles
Today NVIDIA announced that it will provide the transportation industry with access to its NVIDIA DRIVE deep neural networks (DNNs) for autonomous vehicle development...
From insideHPC
2020 Asia Student Cluster Competition Kick-Off
The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge 2020 (ASC20) officially kicked off its event at SC19 in Denver, announcing the location and timeline for the upcoming event...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Difference Between Human Perception and Neural Nets
A long time question, these are 'artificial' neural nets. They are only very, very crudely modeled after the networks in our brain. We had this explained to...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Unveils Advanced, Software-Defined Platform for Autonomous Machines
Today NVIDIA introduced NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin, a highly advanced software-defined platform for autonomous vehicles and robots. "The platform is powered by a new...
From insideHPC
Argonne-led team wins SCinet Technology Challenge at SC19
An extensive collaboration led by Argonne won the Inaugural SCinet Technology Challenge at the SC19 conference by demonstrating real-time analysis of light source...
From insideHPC
Intel HPC Devcon Keynote: Exascale for Everyone
The convergence of HPC and AI is driving a paradigm shift in computing. Learn about Intel’s software-first strategy to further accelerate this convergence and extend...
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Never Pay, Says Microsoft
Of course it does depend on the context, especially now that we are seeing new kinds of threats, like the release rather than freezing of data.Microsoft: We never...
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Building Quantum-Proof Encryption
Its been suggested that current encryption techniques will be cracked by quantum methods. And perhaps cybercurrency/blockchain tech, also based on current encryption...
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Mitre's Framework for Discovering Cyberattack
Was passed this. We worked with Mitre for Defense applications. Seeing more examples of forward facing means of addressing threats.MITRE ATT&CK FRAMEWORK FORCybersecurity...
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Finland's Elements of AI Course
Finland/University of Helsinki Makes their online AI course open and free to all.Elements of AIGood News! The Elements of AI course will soon be available in all...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA ISAT Study Outbrief: I-USHER: Interfaces to Unlock the Specialized HardwarE Revolution
The following is a guest blog from Sarita V. Adve from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ratislav Bodik and Luis Ceze from the University of Washington...
From Schneier on Security
Attacker Causes Epileptic Seizure Over the Internet
This isn't a first, but I think it will be the first conviction: The GIF set off a highly unusual court battle that is expected to equip those in similar circumstances...
From The Eponymous Pickle