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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
MS Bing and AI
Used this, fairly good, where will it go? Often annoyed with MS Windows. No stopping, it seems. MICROSOFT/TECH/ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEMicrosoft’s Bing Chat in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Online Safety Bill And Encryption
Will the UK block the WP. Wikipedia will not perform Online Safety Bill age checksPublished in the BBCBy Chris Vallance & Tom GerkenTechnology reportersWikipedia...
From Computational Complexity
Breaking Ground in Isomorphism Testing: A Leap Forward for a Bottleneck Case of Group Isomorphism
Guest post by Josh Grochow and Youming QiaoThere has, quietly, been somewhat of a breakthrough in isomorphism testing. No, not as big as Babai's 2016 Graph Isomorphism...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Healthcare
Proactive direction.9 ways AI is already shaping the future of healthtech in FastcompanyAmid an increasing shift from reactive care to proactive care, here are...
From Schneier on Security
Large Language Models and Elections
Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee released a video that it claims was “built entirely with AI imagery.” The content of the ad isn’t especially...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Former AWS Sustainability VP on the State of Decarbonization in HPC and IT
The growing imperative of ESG- and carbon-related issues in the HPC industry – and in IT generally – is the topic of this week’s @HPCpodcast episode (sponsored@HPCpodcast...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaverse Seoul?
Have seen this kind of thing proposed way back, can it work?Metaverse Seoul: How One City Used Citizen Input to Pilot a Government-Run MetaverseIn May 2022, the...
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Explainnets
Brought to my attention, you can register to be on the wait-ist. Also more at the link. Intrigues me.ExplainnetsThe Black Box problemMost of the AI used today...
From insideHPC
KKR to Acquire CoolIT Systems
CALGARY, Alberta & NEW YORK– KKR investment firm and CoolIT Systems, a provider of scalable liquid cooling solutions for demanding computing environments, today...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Announcing Call for Blue Sky Papers Track at ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
The 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction will be in Paris, France from October 9-13th, 2023. The CCC is pleased to partner with the Computing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL parsing benchmark
Whenever you enter a URL into a system, it must be parsed and validated. It is a surprisingly challenging task: it may require hundreds of nanoseconds and possibly...
From The Noisy Channel
Maximal Marginal Creativity
In 1998, Jaime Carbonell and Jade Goldstein proposed maximal marginal relevance (MMR) as way to balance the concerns of relevance and diversity. This measure is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
EU Lawmakers Pass Draft of AI Act
EU Lawmakers Pass Draft of AI ActBy VentureBeat, April 28, 2023While a variety of state-based AI-related bills have been passed in the U.S., it is larger government...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Applying blockchain to digital advertising
Intriguing application.Applying blockchain to digital advertisingby Erica Techo, University of GeorgiaCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainThe same technology that...
From Schneier on Security
SolarWinds Detected Six Months Earlier
New reporting from Wired reveals that the Department of Justice detected the SolarWinds attack six months before Mandient detected it in December 2020, but didn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Networks on Photonic Chips
More on thisNeural networks on photonic chips: Harnessing light for ultra-fast and low-power artificial intelligenceby Polytechnic University of MilanNeural networks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biocomputing
Biological components in computers.Researchers Flesh Out BiocomputingBy Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, May 2, 2023Researchers suggest it’s time...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Isbell Accepts
Charles Isbell was my colleague at Georgia Tech for a long time. He has some news, which I am glad to convey in the words of the UW Madison Chancellor, Jennifer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
After Quitting, Hinton Warns
No comments from PNC, NKorea or Soviets. Agree to more cautions.AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google. In the BBCWatch: AI 'godfather'...
From insideHPC