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Japan Firms Turn to VR for Customer Service Training
From The Eponymous Pickle

Japan Firms Turn to VR for Customer Service Training

Examined VR for this in the 80s.   Useful when well staged with examples.   Saw examples in Japan then. Japan Firms Turn to VR for Customer Service TrainingBy The...

Crypto.com launches ChatGPT-based AI user assistant Amy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crypto.com launches ChatGPT-based AI user assistant Amy

Crypto meets AICrypto.com launches ChatGPT-based AI user assistant AmyThe crypto exchange launched its AI user assistant to inform users about industry insights...

RIP Again for the Metaverse?
From The Eponymous Pickle

RIP Again for the Metaverse?

 Does the emergence of AI methods make any difference, I have been asked.   Paused for now?RIP Metaverse   By Business Insider, May 9, 2023The Metaverse, once the...

OpenAI and Figure join the race to Humanoid Robot Workers
From The Eponymous Pickle

OpenAI and Figure join the race to Humanoid Robot Workers

In Norway, OpenAI and Figure join the race to humanoid robot workersBy Loz Blain,  April 10, 2023OpenAI has invested in Norway's 1X Technologies, which expectsOpenAI...

Prompt Engineering Guide for Data Analysts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Prompt Engineering Guide for Data Analysts

Good starting point I am examining now.  Intro here is instructional.Getting the most out of LLM models as a Data Analyst with Prompt EngineeringLarge LanguageLLMs...

Micro-Star International Signing Key Stolen
From Schneier on Security

Micro-Star International Signing Key Stolen

Micro-Star International—aka MSI—had its UEFI signing key stolen last month. This raises the possibility that the leaked key could push out updates that would infect...

Digital lollipop: no calories, just electronics!
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Digital lollipop: no calories, just electronics!

by Jane Waite, Queen Mary University of London Can a computer create a taste in your mouth? Imagine scrolling down a list of flavours and then savouring your sweet...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Ingrid Daubechies: Prizes and Art

Ingrid Daubechies won the 2023 Wolf Prize in Mathematics last February. She is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer...

Beyond the Bard
From The Eponymous Pickle

Beyond the Bard

Beyond the Bard, on to New Gemini.  Google is on to the next level. Lots of claims about the state of these very large LMM models.   How well do they work?  still...

From Computational Complexity

Take a number and map it to the number of letters in its name

Let f: N--> N map a number to the number-of-letters in its name in English (we will consider other languages later).So for example 14 is fourteen so it maps tohere...

Background of Approaches using Deep Learning and Materials
From The Eponymous Pickle

Background of Approaches using Deep Learning and Materials

Value of Deep Learning with Materials:  Via ChatGPT  5/14/2023,   See previous postDeep learning is a subset of machine learning that uses artificial neural networks...

Exploring Material Interiors with Deep Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Exploring Material Interiors with Deep Learning

Previously Mentioned, now in more detail.. Machine learning & AI Deep-learning system explores materials' interiors from the outside   by David L. Chandler , ...

Data Compression Scheme Facilitates Measurement of Blood Flow to the Brain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Compression Scheme Facilitates Measurement of Blood Flow to the Brain

HealthcareData Compression Scheme Facilitates Measurement of Blood Flow to the BrainSPIE, May 8, 2023A data compression scheme developed by researchers at the U...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements
From Schneier on Security

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at IT-S Now 2023 in Vienna, Austria, on June 2, 2023 at 8:30 AM CEST. The listthis...

Robot Fish Makes Splash with Motion Breakthrough
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Fish Makes Splash with Motion Breakthrough

For underwater explorationRobot Fish Makes Splash with Motion Breakthrough  By University of Bristol News (U.K.),  May 11, 2023The robot fish was fitted with aScentists...

Generative AI's Next Frontier Is Video
From The Eponymous Pickle

Generative AI's Next Frontier Is Video

 It is already out there,   Generative AI's Next Frontier Is VideoBy Bloomberg, March 23, 2023 While Gen 2’s image quality is currently a bit blurry and shaky,The...

Thinking Matter as Lattice QCD
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking Matter as Lattice QCD

Whats next,  no big bang?It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations?By Stephen Battersby  20 November 2008New Scientist Default ImageEach proton is made...

The tale of the mote and the petrel
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

The tale of the mote and the petrel

Biology and computer science can meet in some unexpected, not to mention inhospitable, places. Who would have thought that the chemical soup in the nests of Petrels...

The Compressibility of Thought
From The Noisy Channel

The Compressibility of Thought

In a recent Tom Fishburne cartoon, one employee says “AI turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote,” while another says, “AI makesgenerative...

Training Machines to Learn More Like Humans Do
From The Eponymous Pickle

Training Machines to Learn More Like Humans Do

Training computer Vision modelsMIT News, By Adam Zewe  May 9, 2023Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Toyota subsidiary Woven Planet...
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