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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 …
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Will a Spot Robot Make LA Safer?
No, and it won't even get the chance to.See Spot Spy? New Generation of Police Robots Faces BacklashLos Angeles Times, Libor Jan; Gregory Yee, December 21, 2022...
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Banning Your Enemies
Intriguing play, enemies, or some lesser or even arbitrary qualification? Note is different than making a mistaken identification. Is a safety based ban OK?...
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On the End of Programming
Many, like myself started our career in coding. This should increase security by standardizing safer coding approaches. Or will it? The End of Programming (Opinion)...
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Police Tap COVID-19 Tech to Expand Global Surveillance
Tracking of many kinds interacting. Police Tap COVID-19 Tech to Expand Global SurveillanceBy Associated Press, December 27, 2022A worshiper in the Old City of Jerusalem...
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Virtual Clothes Could Help Solve Fashion's Waste Problem
I Worked more on cleansing clothes rather than creating them. Note Blockchain use. Phygital. Hmmm. Virtual Clothes Could Help Solve Fashion's Waste ProblemBy...
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OpenAI ChatGPT Imitating Academic Work
Using and detecting. OpenAI's ChatGPT Raises Alarm Over Student CheatingBy Financial Times, December 27, 2022There is widespread concern that students will useOpenAI's...
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On Speculative Execution
Out of order, and dynamic. What Is Speculative Execution?By Joel Hruska on June 10, 2022With a new Apple security flaw in the news, it’s a good time to revisit...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The joke Turing test
A funny thing happened on the way to the computer by Peter W. McOwan, Queen Mary University of London (from the archive) Laugh and the world laughs with you they...
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McD's Automation Plans
More on McD's automation efforts, apparently the automation of everything but the food preparation. Following closely. McD’s gets decidedly mixed reactions to...
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Donald Knuth's Christmas 2022 Lecture
A person I fondly connected with via this books back in the 70s, always interesting: Donald Knuth's 2022 'Christmas Tree' Lecture Is About Trees ... '
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Microsoft Research Looks Back at Progress in AI
Microsoft talks about some of its efforts. Research @ Microsoft 2022: A look back at a year of accelerating progress in AIPublished December 19, 20222022 has seen...
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Japan Prepares for Defense
In the near past you never heard much about Japan's defense forces (SDF), investment was relatively low, but with potential nearby threats, that is changing...
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Merlin AI Launches First ChatGPT iOS and Android Mobile App
MerlinAI and IOS For a ChatGPT Merlin AI Launches First ChatGPT iOS and Android Mobile AppERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on December 23, 2022 Mobile app developer Dogtown Media...
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On a Trip to Infinity
Math in Netflix"The most intrusive animation is a train that twice interrupts the mathematician Moon Duchin, who is reflecting on what it would mean for a mathematical...
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2D Material May Enable Ultra-Sharp Cellphone Photos in Low Light
Most interesting, worked on a project that needed to get low light images for input to modeling.2D Material May Enable Ultra-Sharp Cellphone Photos in Low Light...
From Schneier on Security
Arresting IT Administrators
This is one way of ensuring that IT keeps up with patches: Albanian prosecutors on Wednesday asked for the house arrest of five public employees they blame for...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The Chinese room: zombie attack!
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (From the cs4fn archive) Iain M Banks’s science fiction novels about ‘The Culture’ imagine a universe inhabitedContinue...
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Big Ideas in Tech
Nicely done, Big Ideas in Tech for 2023: An a16z Omnibus by Andreessen AI, machine & deep learning bio + health consumer crypto & web3 ecommerce enterprise...
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Netflix Password Sharing may Be illegal, says UK government: BBC
In the BBC on password sharing. Illegal vs allowed? Copyright law involved? Intellectual Property. Netflix password sharing may be illegal, says UK government...
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