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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
'Consciousness' in Robots Was Once Taboo. Now It's the Last Word
As we get closer, how scary might it get? Regulation needed, varying by use context. 'Consciousness' in Robots Was Once Taboo. Now It's the Last WordThe New...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smelling, Touching Take Center Stage in Metaverse
More than vision? Smelling, Touching Take Center Stage in MetaverseAssociated Press Haleluya Hadero; Rio Yamat, January 8, 2023Metaverse technologies unveiled...
From insideHPC
OCP and JEDEC Announce Collaboration
January 24, 2023 – Today, the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), the hyperscle nonprofit organization, and JEDEC Solid State Technology Association, developer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Green eats the future
Broader look at research work being done of interest. More at the linkGreen eats the future, feeding the world in Fraunhofer MagazineWithout algae there would...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
International domain names: where does https://meßagefactory.ca lead you?
Originally, the domain part of a web address was all ASCII (so no accents, no emojis, no Chinese characters). This was extended a long time ago thanks to something...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome to our new ACM-W Northern America Regional Chair!
Dr Lindsay Jamieson is our Northern America Regional Chair of ACM-W, effective January 2023. Dr Jamieson is a teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Fostering Responsible Computing Research White Paper Released
The National Academies (NASEM) recognized the need for computing researchers in academia, industry, and government to consider the ethical and societal impacts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Inventory Shelf Analysis with AI
Worked on something very similar to this in Laboratory Stores, but without AI. Learned much in the general process. Google Cloud Introduces Shelf Inventory Predictive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple, Google Face Disruption
Meanings of disruption unclear, both are acquiring some key technologies. Same with Microsoft.Apple and Google are both at their biggest risk of disruption in...
From insideHPC
Multiverse Computing and PINQ2 Team on Quantum Computing Adoption Across Industry Verticals
TORONTO, January 23, 2023 – Multiverse Computing, a quantum and quantum-inspired software company, today announced a new partnership with The Platform for Quantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How is ChatGPT Bringing AI into Popular Culture?
Finally AI becoming 'Live'? Has this changed everything? For what set of tech customers? Jobs? From SASIn recent weeks, the ChatGPT hype has blown up my...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Photo Bot Feeds Data from JWST Space Telescope
Instructive, A means to to feed data from multiple sources? 50 GB a day! What can we learn form this?Telescope broke the universeScientists were in awe ofA...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Jobs Are Safe From Automation?
“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” – Yogi BerraThat doesn't mean people don't try. Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence have a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crypto not done Yet
Had wondered where we were here and what we should make of it, further examining. ACM OPINIONThe 'End of Crypto'? Not So FastBy Fortune, November 22, 2022Most people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How is AI Really Being used Today?
I am often asked, and here Google summarizes it, which means that most every one of us is doing lots of AI all the time. Google is doing it, others are making...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dreaming of Driverless: Levels of Vehicle Autononomy
Examination of driverless vehicle Specs.Dreaming of Driverless: What’s the Difference Between Level 2 and Level 5 Autonomy?January 25, 2018 by Jeff Davis in NVidia...
From Schneier on Security
No-Fly List Exposed
I can’t remember the last time I thought about the US no-fly list: the list of people so dangerous they should never be allowed to fly on an airplane, yet so innocent...
From Computational Complexity
The Betty White Award for 2022
In Dec 2021 I noted in this post, which was my 1000th post ever (according to Ken Regan, see here) that Betty White had the misfortune of dying on Dec 31, 2021,...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Chatbot or Cheatbot?
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London The chatbots have suddenly got everyone talking, though about them as much as with them. Why? Because one, chatGPT...
From The Eponymous Pickle