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Intro to Microsoft Bing AI Chat
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intro to Microsoft Bing AI Chat

Microsoft's take no AI Chat.  Have not used Bing Chat yet, but interesting in having modes of use, some game features.  Uses ChatGPT and adds interesting features...

AI Chatbots are Hallucinating?
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Chatbots are Hallucinating?

An overstatement,  but since they are based on human language data input, always possible.  As in anything written by a human generator.    Caution required asACM...

The Insecurity of Photo Cropping
From Schneier on Security

The Insecurity of Photo Cropping

The Intercept has a long article on the insecurity of photo cropping: One of the hazards lies in the fact that, for some of the programs, downstream crop reversals...

A Message from the ACM-W Chair
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

A Message from the ACM-W Chair

Today the ACM-W is thinking of our members in Turkey and Syria in the aftermath of the earthquakes. Mothers seeking children, sisters seeking siblings, men, women...

ACM-W India Decade Celebration
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

ACM-W India Decade Celebration

Theme: Women in Computer Science Research ACM W India celebrated its 10th anniversary with a special decade celebration on February 10th, 2023, at the Oriental...

A Law Firm and Generative AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Law Firm and Generative AI

Legal direction make sense, if the results are good.   Note uses ChatGPT.\ model. Hello, Harvey: This Elite Biglaw Firm Is The First To Partner With 'Game-Changing'...

Does it Pay to be a Whistlebower? and ChatGPTs General Answer.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Does it Pay to be a Whistlebower? and ChatGPTs General Answer.

In HBS Working Knowledge and Podcast ... Business Research for Business LeadersTopics, Sections 14 FEB 2023 COLD CALL PODCAST follows ... Does It Pay to Be a Whistleblower...

James Barr von Oehsen Named Director of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
From insideHPC

James Barr von Oehsen Named Director of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

James Barr von Oehsen has been selected as the director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and...

Microsoft's AI Chatbot is Going Off the Rails
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft's AI Chatbot is Going Off the Rails

Quality very Important.  My own examinations of these methods found nothing so egregious.Microsoft's AI Chatbot is Going Off the RailsBy The Washington Post,  February...

Malicious ChatGPT Use
From The Eponymous Pickle

Malicious ChatGPT Use

As usual, interesting piece on security issues.Twit.tv   Security Now,   Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo LaporteSecurity Now episode 910  Ascon - Malicious ChatGPTMore...

NSF Welcomes Newly Appointed National Science Board Members
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Welcomes Newly Appointed National Science Board Members

Last week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) welcomed the eight newly appointed National Science Board (NSB) Members to NSF headquarters to identify issues...

Surfing Research Data Waves
From The Eponymous Pickle

Surfing Research Data Waves

 Key Data and Metadata gathered and collected for future use.Surfing the Research Data WaveUniversity of Stuttgart (Germany), February 10, 2023A new data exchange...

Fines as a Security System
From Schneier on Security

Fines as a Security System

Tile has an interesting security solution to make its tracking tags harder to use for stalking: The Anti-Theft Mode feature will make the devices invisible to Scan...

Above and Beyond Scholarship – Lauren Cairco Dukes, PhD
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Above and Beyond Scholarship – Lauren Cairco Dukes, PhD

Year of Scholarship and Conference Attendance: ACM symposium on virtual reality software and technology, 2007 Country of residence at the time of receiving the...

From Computational Complexity

It is more important than ever to teach your students probability (even non-stem students)

You are a college president. An online betting company says  We will give you X dollars if you allow us to promote online gambling at your University.I suspecthere...

Edie Schlain Windsor and same sex marriage
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Edie Schlain Windsor and same sex marriage

Edie Schlain Windsor was a senior systems programmer at IBM. There is more to life than computing though. She led the landmark US Supreme Court Case that was a...

Talking to Chat AI.  Early Chats:
From The Eponymous Pickle

Talking to Chat AI. Early Chats:

 Have been running ChatGPT from OpenAI for a couple of weeks now. Nicely done, reasonably accurate so far for  general questions.  Here I asked about the uses of...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Thanks to Rich

Richard DeMillo deserves, in my opinion, an award for his decades of research. A difficulty I believe is that he has worked on multiple areas and made important...

An Examination of Bing Chat's Secret Modes
From The Eponymous Pickle

An Examination of Bing Chat's Secret Modes

Shaky implementation, getting access.  These kinds of applications have to be very good, else they are worthless..   An examination of Bing Chat's Secret Modes ...

Tesla Autopilots Still a Problem
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tesla Autopilots Still a Problem

Seems a fundamental are of their autopilot system.  No resulting injuries known. Tesla recalls 363,000 cars over self-driving software  in the BBCTesla is updating...
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