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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
10 million sign up for Meta's Twitter rival app, Threads
Media to extend back.10 million sign up for Meta's Twitter rival app, ThreadsBy NPR, July 6, 2023The logo for Meta's new app, Threads.Meta's new app appears toCredit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In UK: Barred from Grocery Stores by Face Recognition / In US, Used by TSA
Barred from Grocery Stores by Facial Recognition, By The New York Times June 30, 2023A facial recognition system alerts Simon Mackenzie, a QD Stores security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wood Transistors?
How? Conductive. See Below.Wood Transistors Take Root, enA transistor made from balsa wood.The team transformed the wood into a transistor by removing lignin...
From Schneier on Security
Belgian Tax Hack
Here’s a fascinating tax hack from Belgium (listen to the details here, episode #484 of “No Such Thing as a Fish,” at 28:00). Basically, it’s about a music festival...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Having fun with string literal suffixes in C++
The C++11 standard introduced used-defined string suffixes. It also added regular expressions to the C++ language as a standard feature. I wanted to have fun and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Chair Emerita, Liz Bradley, Featured in Recent SpringerNature Podcast on Athlete-scientists
CCC Council Chair Emerita, Liz Bradley, was interviewed last month for a SpringerNature’s podcast segment on Athlete-scientists. As an Olympian, mathematician and...
From insideHPC
El Capitan Supercomputer Installation at Livermore Has Begun
With pictures to prove it, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced today it has begun receiving and installing components for El Capitan, what is expected...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Is Not Going to Reinvent the Alphabet Anytime Soon
AI Is Not Going to Reinvent the Alphabet Anytime SoonBy WiredIllustration shows a mechanical, metal brain superimposed on a host of letters and typerwriter keys...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book: Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark: Being Human in the Age of Artifical Intelligence
Currently reading, nicely done ... Via ChatGPT prompted by 'Life 3.0': "Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" is a book by Max Tegmark...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Heat-resistant Ceramic ink for Data codes on Metal Components
Heat-resistant ceramic ink for data codes on metal componentsResearch News / July 03, 2023Fraunhofer researchers have developed an extremely heat-resistant ceramic...
From insideHPC
New York State Plans to Buy Supercomputer to Understand and Regulate AI
July 5, 2023 — New York’s Department of Financial Services’ (DFS) said it plans to buy an AI supercomputer to understand and regulate AI. A recent story by Bloomberg...
From insideHPC
SK hynix Obtains AAA Ratings from South Korea Trade Ministry
Seoul, July 5, 2023 – SK hynix announced today that it has obtained the AAA certification, the highest level of voluntary compliance traders for strategic items...
From insideHPC
Quantum Exponential Invests in Delta g Ltd
July 5, 2023 — Quantum Exponential Group plc (AQUIS: QBIT), a company focused on investing in quantum technologies, has announced it has invested £300,000 (theQuantum...
From Computational Complexity
Automating Mathematicians
The New York Times published an article with the ominous title A.I. Is Coming for Mathematics, Too. We know by the work of Gödel and Turing that we can't automate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nuclear Transport Fleet Testing AI-Powered Sails
Supply chain considered. AI autonomously orients the sails for efficiency..By New Atlas. June 22, 2023Artist's concept of the Fastrig system deployed.The Fastrig...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Battling Spacejunk
AI Battles the Bane of Space Junk Neural nets navigate nuances of rogue orbital objects—and near-misses By Sara WellPhotos from low-earth orbit (LEO) are often...
From Schneier on Security
Class-Action Lawsuit for Scraping Data without Permission
I have mixed feelings about this class-action lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming that it “scraped 300 billion words from the internet” without either...
From The Eponymous Pickle
X.AI The New Elon Musk AI Company
X.AI The New Elon Musk AI Company https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6lvbUqwX08,075 views Jul 1, 2023 #elonmusk #ai #xaiX.AI The New Elon Musk AI Company ThatWelcome...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China's Ernie Bot 3.5: Surpassing OpenAI's GPT-4 in AI Race
Has China delayed their AI development? Read about Baidu/Ernie elsewhere , but have not Tried it.China's Ernie Bot 3.5: Surpassing OpenAI's GPT-4 in the AI Race...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP