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Digital Humans on the Screen
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Humans on the Screen

Advances here have always made me wonder, will CGI's replace people on the screen as well.Digital Humans on the Big ScreenBy Don MonroeCommunications of the ACM...

ML Models for Everyday Actions
From The Eponymous Pickle

ML Models for Everyday Actions

Of course this  is what we would like to get to to create General AI.  Solving and delivering real decisions.  But we are not there yet.  I like the challenge outlined...

Google Machine Learning Tutorial
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Machine Learning Tutorial

Had the honor to meet Kirk D Bourne some time ago.   Here he passes along a link to the Google Tutorial on Machine Learning certainly worth a look: Kirk Borne ★...

Friday Squid Blogging: Morning Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Morning Squid

Asa ika means "morning squid" in Japanese. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read...

Panasas Names Tom Shea President/CEO, Succeeds Faye Pairman
From insideHPC

Panasas Names Tom Shea President/CEO, Succeeds Faye Pairman

High performance vendor Panasas today announced that COO Tom Shea has succeeded Faye Pairman as president and chief executive officer and member of the board of...

Former IBMer Dave Turek Explains DNA-based Storage and its Place in the Compute Landscape to Come
From insideHPC

Former IBMer Dave Turek Explains DNA-based Storage and its Place in the Compute Landscape to Come

There are groundswells for new architectures with the potential to propel compute power forward, even as Moore’s Law winds down. Hence the explosive growth of accelerated...

Friday Squid Blogging: Morning Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Morning Squid

Asa ika means “morning squid” in Japanese. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read...

Friday Squid Blogging: Morning Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Morning Squid

Asa ika means “morning squid” in Japanese. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read...

Apple, Google Expand Coronavirus Warning Software
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apple, Google Expand Coronavirus Warning Software

 Have not seem any indications of this being very successful.   Can someone point me to a technical review?   Note the mention of a real time warning popup being...

Quantum Operating Systems Trial
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Operating Systems Trial

Considering the implications of this for development, testing and delivery.Quantum Operating System Trial SuccessfulFinancial Times   Siddarth Venkataramakrishnan...

Anthropology and technology conference
From Putting People First

Anthropology and technology conference

The Anthropology + Technology conference brings together pioneering technologists and social scientists from across the globe. Its aim is to facilitate dialogue...

Machine Generated Art
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Generated Art

Automated art has been around for a long time, but it has never clicked in a substantial way.  Will some of these advances change that?  Is the case where suchRewriting...

[Book] Possibilities and challenges of AI for work and society
From Putting People First

[Book] Possibilities and challenges of AI for work and society

Artificial Intelligence is permeating a wide range of areas and it is bound to transform work and society. This dossier asks what needs to be done politically in...

Indiegogo Translation, with Accents
From The Eponymous Pickle

Indiegogo Translation, with Accents

With 93 accents, which sounds exciting.  How much wil this improve translation?  Are we much closer to the fabled and fictional 'Babel fish'?!  Here presented with...

Altair Extends Strategic HPC OEM Agreement with HPE
From insideHPC

Altair Extends Strategic HPC OEM Agreement with HPE

Troy, Mich., Sept. 3, 2020 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high performance computing (HPC), and...

Hacking AI-Graded Tests
From Schneier on Security

Hacking AI-Graded Tests

The company Edgenuity sells AI systems for grading tests. Turns out that they just search for keywords without doing any actual semantic analysis....

Hacking AI-Graded Tests
From Schneier on Security

Hacking AI-Graded Tests

The company Edgenuity sells AI systems for grading tests. Turns out that they just search for keywords without doing any actual semantic analysis.

Hacking AI-Graded Tests
From Schneier on Security

Hacking AI-Graded Tests

The company Edgenuity sells AI systems for grading tests. Turns out that they just search for keywords without doing any actual semantic analysis.

Alexa Will Voice Pay for Gas
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Will Voice Pay for Gas

Been looking for how services like Amazon Alexa can add to automotive experiences.  Well here is the newest, just announced:Safe. Simple. Swift.Now, you can use...

Comparing Kinds of AI based Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Comparing Kinds of AI based Learning

Nicely done piece that compares different forms of artificial intelligence based learning methods.   And what they are typically meant to do.   Not overly technical...
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