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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 Yoshua Bengio
Superintelligence: Futurology vs. Science
We sometimes come across catchy headlines about AI that can scare or excite us, such as “By the middle of this century, artificial intelligence will… L’article ...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cheating In Chess
Colonel Stok: Do you play chess? Harry Palmer: Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating.—Funeral in Berlin Ken Regan is well known to us all, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Pen Helping People Learn to Write
AI and learning physical writing. Like the interplay interplay of the old and new skills.Artificial intelligence: Digital pen helps people learn to writeby Karlsruhe...
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research: ‘Exceptional’ Global HPC Growth in 2021
Although many vendor-reported figures for the fourth quarter aren’t available yet, high performance computing (HPC) market analyst firm Hyperion Research said “it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blood Clot Screw
Like the implied visualizationThe microrobot has a helical structure like a propeller. Corkscrew-Shaped Robot Swims Through Blood Vessels to Clear BlockagesNew...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eliminating some Quantum Computations
Fascinating piece, with it seems big implications, see the full thing in QuantaMag pointed to below. Look forward to see the implications in such futuristic machines...
From Computational Complexity
Personal Reflections on Dick Lipton in honor of his 1000th blog/75th bday.
Is it an irony that Lipton's 1000th post and 75th bday are close together? No. Its a coincidence. People use irony/paradox/coincidence interchangeably. Hearing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monitizing Personal Data
Repeated after reading, well done. Did a big project on related questions and how they drove decisions.Monetizing Your Personal Data, By Keith KirkpatrickCommunications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can or Will AI Destroy Education?
Not till it can become very adaptive to many contexts. Replacing if it does better than teachers perhaps.Many contexts are at play. Selective humans are stillWill...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lower Cost, complexity Recording Brain Activity
Recording a test subject’s brain activity. Device Developed for Easier Link Between Brain, Computer, BodySkolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Russia),...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Palm Scans Clothing Checkouts
ACM TECHNEWSAmazon looks further in the complexity of checkout, aims to be seamless. Amazon Opening 30,000-Sq.-Ft. Store with QR Codes, Palm-Scanning CheckoutBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton on the Economy this Year
Where are we going? What’s Ahead for the U.S. Economy in 2022LISTEN TO THE PODCAST:Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel speaks with Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Great Resignation: How to Combat the Knowledge Drain Effect
Not too different from other kinds of knowledge loss, though accelerated. Tried many efforts to address this, rarely effective ..... 'The Great Resignation: How...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
SWAR explained: parsing eight digits
It is common to want to parse long strings of digits into integer values. Because it is a common task, we want to optimize it as much as possible. In the blog post...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reliability of Contract Tracing
Related to above, considerable piece brief intro below.How Reliable Is Smartphone-Based Electronic Contact Tracing for COVID-19?By Philipp H. Kindt, Trinad Chakraborty...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clip Detects COVID
Intriguing concept, Complete capabilities and how it is meant to integrate with consumer's behavior and status is unclear.Yale researcher teams develops wearable...
From insideHPC
Quantum: Atom Computing Raises $60M Series B Funding
January 20, 2022 — Berkeley, CA — Atom Computing, maker of a quantum computer made of nuclear-spin qubits from optically-trapped neutral atoms, today announcedQuantum...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Zettascale Is Coming – But What About Exascale?
After SC21, Patrick Kennedy at Serve the Home got a scoop when he met with Raja Koduri, SVP/GM of Intel’s Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meta Jumps into NFTs
NFTs getting a further indication of reality. A deepening of generalized asset fungification?Meta reportedly plans to bring NFTs into Facebook and Instagram, BY...
From The Eponymous Pickle