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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 CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Pit-stop heart surgery
The Formula 1 car screams to a stop in the pit-lane. Seven seconds later, it has roared away again, back into the race. In those few seconds it has been refuelled...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
TTIC Makes a Hire
Avrim Blum just announced that Shiry Ginosar has accepted his offer and will be joining TTIC as a tenure-track Assistant Professor starting this Fall 2024. Avrim...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Turing Test?
THE DOWNLOADThe Download: a new Turing test, and working with ChatGPTBy Rhiannon Williams archive pageJuly 14, 2023This is today's edition of The Download, ourMy...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Chromatophores
Neat: Chromatophores are tiny color-changing cells in cephalopods. Watch them blink back and forth from purple to white on this squid’s skin in an Instagram video...
From insideHPC
Cerebras and UAE-based G42 Announce Condor Galaxy AI Supercomputer, Offered as Cloud Service
July 20, 2023 — AI technology company Cerebras Systems with partner with G42, a UAE-based technology holding group, have announced Condor Galaxy, a cloud-basedCerebras...
From insideHPC
CIQ Launches New Rocky Linux Support Partner Program
RENO, Nev.—July 20, 2023— CIQ, which builds software infrastructure for enterprises running workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise Linux distribution, announced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solar Energy Turns a New Leaf
Natural fuels.Solar Energy Turns a New LeafBy Samuel Greengard, July 18, 2023A solar leaf product made from microalgae, phytoplankton, and other microscopic plants...
From Schneier on Security
AI and Microdirectives
Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret—and enforce—laws. All day and every day, you constantly receive highly personalized instructions for how to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Asteroid loaded with $10 quintillion worth of Metals edges closer to US reach
Previously mentioned, here a report excerpt. An Asteroid loaded with $10 quintillion worth of Metals edges closer to US reachFilip De Mott Jul 20, 2023, 4:31NASA...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast decoding of base32 strings
We often need to encode binary data into ASCII strings. The standards (e.g., email) to do so include base16, base32 and base64. There are some research papers on...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Two Other Tests of Time
Mihalis Yannakakis 70-Fest and the 2023 Gödel Prize 2020 AAAS election—congrats on that too Mihalis Yannakakis is being honored with a 70th-birthday festival next...
From The Noisy Channel
Surprise! Surprise?
We have reached the stage of generative AI where artists, authors, and performers are convinced that AI is stealing their lives — and, perhaps more importantly,...
From insideHPC
Lenovo is a Supply Chain Powerhouse with Asset Recovery Services being a Key Cornerstone
[Sponsored Guest Article] The lifecycle of IT gear, HPC or otherwise, is generally thought to start the day it is powered up to the day it is powered down for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Talks Costs of AI and Integration with Office in CoPilot
Based on experience the integration is very important ... CNBC.COM July 18, 2023By Todd Haselton @ROBOTODD• Microsoft shares rallied to an all-time high after...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Urban Planning with VR
Modeling your complex realities Improving Urban Planning with VRRuhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)Meike Drießen, July 14, 2023Researchers at Germany's Ruhr-Universit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey and Cohere Collaborate to Transform Clients with Enterprise Generative AI
At the McKinsey BlogMcKinsey and Cohere collaborate to transform clients with enterprise generative AIAI & AnalyticsJuly 18, 2023Today, McKinsey announced a strategic...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Breaking Down Barriers to Open Source Contributions
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt a touch of nervousness when it comes to contributing to an open-source project. Many of us have been there. Even though the...
From insideHPC
Quantum: Atom Computing and NREL Explore Electric Grid Optimization
BOULDER, CO, July 20, 2023 – Atom Computing and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today announced are exploring how quantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle