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AI Boom Takes Silicon Valley on a Manic Quest, Will it Change the World?
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AI Boom Takes Silicon Valley on a Manic Quest, Will it Change the World?

ACM NEWSThe AI Boom Has Silicon Valley on Another Manic Quest to Change the WorldBy BusinessWeek,June 15, 2023It's a frenzy not seen since the dot-com fever ofCredit...

ChatGPT Is Coming to 900,000 Mercedes Vehicles
From The Eponymous Pickle

ChatGPT Is Coming to 900,000 Mercedes Vehicles

This made me think about the how and why of it.   Watch the road before prompting. Mercedes says it's going to test ChatGPT with its in-car voice assistant for ...

Google debuts AI-powered ad Placement tools
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google debuts AI-powered ad Placement tools

Lets see it.Google debuts AI-powered ad placement toolsBY MIKE WHEATLEYAlphabet Inc.’s Google said today it’s enhancing its online advertising placement capabilities...

Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era: IBM
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Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era: IBM

Next?Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era: IBMThe New York TimesKenneth Chang, June 14, 2023IBM researchers simulated the behavior of 127 atom-scale bar magnets...

A Kind of Holodec from the 90s
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Kind of Holodec from the 90s

In the 80's we built a kind of Holodec, but were not patient enough to finish it with the tools of the times.   Now we Have more of those tools.     Called them...

AI Unlikely to Gain human-like Cognition, unless Connected to real World through Robots
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AI Unlikely to Gain human-like Cognition, unless Connected to real World through Robots

Don't agree completely AI Unlikely to gain human-like cognition, unless connected to real world through robots, says studyby University of SheffieldCredit: Pixabay...

Asia's Opportunity for Generative AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Asia's Opportunity for Generative AI

Expected, especially with regard to delivering multi lingual Generative results. ACM NEWSAsia's Opportunity for Generative AIBy MIT Technology Review, June 16,The...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Can Edit Their RNA
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Can Edit Their RNA

This is just crazy: Scientists don’t yet know for sure why octopuses, and other shell-less cephalopods including squid and cuttlefish, are such prolific editors...

Outgoing Exascale Computing Project Director Doug Kothe Takes on New Role at Sandia Labs
From insideHPC

Outgoing Exascale Computing Project Director Doug Kothe Takes on New Role at Sandia Labs

Doug Kothe knows about transitions, including transitions on a grand scale. The outgoing director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing ProjectOutgoing...

Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2023
From Schneier on Security

Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2023

I’m just back from the sixteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, hosted by Alessandro Acquisti at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. SHB is a small...

Good News! China and the US Are Talking About AI Dangers
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Good News! China and the US Are Talking About AI Dangers

This apparent change sounds good, if our own Gvt does not stifle us.Good News! China and the US Are Talking About AI DangersACM NEWS     By Wired  June 16, 2023...

A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software
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A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software

Considerable article, excerpt and more below, Good cautions.A Critical Look at AI-Generated SoftwareAI-Generated Code exaines•IEEE Spectrum by Jaideep Vaidya /Most...

The Global Battle to Regulate AI Is Just Beginning
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The Global Battle to Regulate AI Is Just Beginning

The Global Battle to Regulate AI Is Just BeginningBy Wired, May 11, 2023At the core of the debate about regulating AI is the question of whether it's possible to...

Fungal Architectures and Logical Bacteria
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Fungal Architectures and Logical Bacteria

Always had an interest in Fungi,  now connecting with computation?  Amazing thought.  On my list.  Fungal Architectures and Logical Bacteria  By Karen EmslieCommissioned...

Organizing Unstructured Data with Machine Learning
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Organizing Unstructured Data with Machine Learning

Considering all the data and its uses. Organizing Unstructured DataBy Esther SheinCommissioned by CACM Staff, June 8, 2023Vector databases are efficient for conducting...

From Computational Complexity

Randomized Acceptances

NeurIPS recently released their 2021 consistency report, a sequel to the 2014 experiment. While the conference has grown dramatically, the results remain "consistent"...

Creating great game worlds
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Creating great game worlds

Are you a PUBG or Fortnite addict? Maybe you enjoy playing Minecraft? Have you thought how these games are created? Could you create a game yourself? It is all...

How the U.S. Can Win the Quantum Computing Race
From insideHPC

How the U.S. Can Win the Quantum Computing Race

By Rob Hays, CEO, Atom Computing and Kristen Pudenz, Director of Advanced Research Programs, Atom Computing Quantum computing will define the 21st century. It’s...

How I Became a Micro-Celebrity
From The Noisy Channel

How I Became a Micro-Celebrity

In the 1979 movie “The Jerk”, there is a hilarious scene where Navin (played by Steve Martin) becomes excited at the discovery that his name is in print — in the...

Meta Scientist Yann LeCun says AI won't Destroy Jobs Forever
From The Eponymous Pickle

Meta Scientist Yann LeCun says AI won't Destroy Jobs Forever

Meta Scientist Yann LeCun says AI won't destroy jobs forever    in the BBC Prof Yann LeCun is known as one of the three godfathers of AI and works as Facebook...
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