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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
AI to Understand Consciuous of a 'Theory of Mind'
We read much on 'Theory of mind', as it related to things like intelligent undertanding and 'consciousness'. Could this leverage us into better definitions and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UsIng AI to Work with Regulations
Consider possible use as 'Contract-Digital-Twin' (my term) to determine how it might simulate the application of regulations in varying contexts. A smart contract...
From Schneier on Security
Including Hackers in NATO Wargames
This essay makes the point that actual computer hackers would be a useful addition to NATO wargames: The international information security community is filled...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best practices in design conversational AI in integration with Business Software
Good thoughts here regards linking business software to Conversational AI. Intro below:Further thoughts on integrating business process and Conversational AI. ...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Number Parsing at a Gigabyte per Second
Computers typically rely on binary floating-point numbers. Most often they span 64 bits or 32 bits. Many programming languages call them double and float. JavaScript...
From insideHPC
DOE Office of Science Workshop: Mapping Brain Circuitry at Scale
Jan. 29, 2021 – The National Institute of Health BRAIN Initiative and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science will hold virtual workshops in February and March...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy Un-Birthday Rich
Still going strong Richard DeMillo just turned 74 years old the other day. Happy Birthday Rich, and many more. Today I want to wish him also a happy un-birthday...
From Schneier on Security
New iMessage Security Features
Apple has added added security features to mitigate the risk of zero-click iMessage attacks. Apple did not document the changes but Groß said he fiddled around...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Satellite Crowd
A discussion of the crowding of satellites, mentioned here a number of times before. The crowd needs to be much better managed. Thousands More Satellites Will...
From insideHPC
SK hynix MOU with Dalian, China, on Acquisition of Intel Fab for Supporting Chinese IT Industry
Dalian, China – Seoul, Korea – Jan. 29, 2021 – SK hynix Inc. (or ‘the Company’, www.skhynix.com) today signed a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) with the Dalian...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple value Slots for Improved Dialog
Reported in Amazon Developer, Dialog is the thing. Now Available: Use Multi-Value Slots to build more Natural conversationsKarthik Ragubathy Jan 19, 2021Share...
From insideHPC
UberCloud and GNS Systems in Strategic Partnership for Cloud-HPC-as-a-Service
Braunschweig, Germany and Los Altos, California – January 25, 2021 – GNS Systems GmbH and The UberCloud Inc. are pleased to announce they have entered into a strategic...
From insideHPC
Things to Know When Assessing, Piloting, and Deploying GPUs – Part 2
In this insideHPC Guide, our friends over at WEKA suggest that when organizations decide to move existing applications or new applications to a GPU-influenced system...
From insideHPC
Kim Budil Named 1st Woman Director of LLNL
Kim Budil has been named director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Charlene Zettel, chair of Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS),Kim...
From insideHPC
For Exascale Systems and Beyond: DOE Funds $12M for Adapting Software for Next-Gen Supercomputers
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced plans to provide up to $12 million for research aimed at adapting scientific software to run on next-generation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research...
From insideHPC
observIQ’s Stanza Log Agent Now Part of OpenTelemetry Project
January 28, 2021 — observIQ, a provider of next-generation observability solutions for ITOps and DevOps teams, today announced that its open source log agent Stanza...
From insideHPC
Sensible 4 to Launch Second Self-Driving Pilot in Norway
Helsinki, Jan. 27, 2021 The Finnish self-driving software company Sensible 4 has started pre-pilot preparations at Gjesdal, Norway. This includes test-drives in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New AI to Reason about Uncertainty
Good thoughts here. We spend muct time trying to reduce uncertainty to something useful, like risk, both within rule based logic and prediction.Approach to AI...
From The Eponymous Pickle