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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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Tiny robot could Stop Bleeding from inside the Body using heat
Tiny robot could stop bleeding from inside the body using heat Max PlanckA centimetre-sized robot with a soft body and metallic scales inspired by pangolinsBy...
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AI Benchmarks
AI benchmarks: A new paper challenges the status quo of evaluating artificial intelligenceBen Dickson @BenDee983June 13, 2023 6:00 AMIn recent years, artificial...
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The Boundary Between Human Language and ChatGPT Is Fuzzier Than You Think
The Boundary Between Human Language and ChatGPT Is Fuzzier Than You ThinkBy Brendan H. O'ConnorJune 12, 2023 in Singularity HubChatGPT is a hot topic at my university...
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Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era: IBM
Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era: IBMThe New York TimesKenneth Chang, June 14, 2023IBM researchers simulated the behavior of 127 atom-scale bar magnets...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing time stamps faster with SIMD instructions
In software, it is common to represent time as a time-stamp string. It is usually specified by a time format string. Some standards use the format %Y%m%d%H%M%SContinue...
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The Economic Potential of Generative AI: The next Productivity Frontier
McKinsey takes an always useful look at the future of technology I followThe economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier by MckinseyJune...
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AI Spending Boom Extends
Good view of directions in industry A.I. is now the biggest spend for nearly 50% of top tech executives across the economy: CNBC surveyPUBLISHED FRI, JUN 23 2023...
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Turning Old Maps into 3D Digital Models of Lost Neighborhoods
Nice idea for the use of modelingTurning Old Maps into 3D Digital Models of Lost NeighborhoodsBy Ohio State News, June 30, 2023 A three-dimensional model of the...
From Computational Complexity
Chernoff Turns 100
Guest post by Ravi BoppanaHerman Chernoff celebrates a milestone today: he turns 100 years old. We in theoretical computer science know Professor Chernoff primarily...
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Insights GPT Empowers Customers with Deeper Context and New ways to Deliver Faster, Trusted Insights
Noted this, also in Youtube. Can see more in this direction, and further tailored for specific businesses.Insights GPT empowers customers with deeper context and...
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Bill Gates, along with Eric Schmidt and Nvidia, just minted another A.I. unicorn
More supercomputers staged for AI.Bill Gates, along with Eric Schmidt and Nvidia, just minted another A.I. unicorn in a massive $1.3 billion funding roundThe maker...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A New AKS
An award for attacking an NP-hard problem Miklós Ajtai, Ravi Kumar, and D. Sivakumar were among winners of the ACM STOC 2023 “Test of Time” Awards. The award recognized...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Bitten blue
For some reason biting flies home in on some people while leaving others (even those walking next to them) alone. What is going on, what does it have to do with...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: See-Through Squid
Doryteuthis opalescens is known as the market squid, and was critical in the recent squid RNA research. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about...
From Geeking with Greg
Attacking the economics of scams and misinformation
We see so many scams and so much misinformation on the internet because it is profitable. It's cheap to create bogus accounts. It's cheap to use hordes of accounts...
From insideHPC
22,000 GPUs: Inflection AI Building 22 exaFLOPS Generative AI Cluster
Palo Alto-based startup Inflection AI yesterday said it is building the world’s largest AI cluster comprised of 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs that will deliver...
From insideHPC
Leostream Announces Features Designed for Improved HPC on AWS EC2
BOSTON, MASS. – Leostream, a remote desktop access platform provider, has announced features designed to improve high-performance computing and imaging/video workloads...
From insideHPC
The Energy Advantage of Quantum Computers
By Yuval Boger, Chief Marketing Officer, QuEra Computing Inc. While quantum computers will ultimately be able to solve problems that no classical supercomputerThe...
From The Noisy Channel
Facets: Constraints or Preferences?
When my colleagues and I at Endeca started working on faceted search in 1999, our model of the search journey was that most searchers start with broadly expressed...
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