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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 Putting People First
New Reuters Institute Report on distrust in the news by disadvantaged communities
Why do disadvantaged communities distrust the news? And what can newsrooms do about it? These are the questions at the heart of a new report by the Reuters Institute...
From Putting People First
[Book] The Smartness Mandate
What exactly is “smartness,” and how and why has it come to be not only a desirable goal, but something that must be implemented everywhere?
From Geeking with Greg
The biggest threat to Google
Nico Grant at the New York Times writes that Google is furiously adding features to its web search, including personalized search and personalized information recommendations...
From insideHPC
QC Ware Launches Promethium for Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Materials Discovery
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 18, 2023 — QC Ware, a provider of chemistry simulation and machine learning solutions, today announced the release of Promethium, a modern...
From insideHPC
Torsten Hoefler Named First Winner of Jack Dongarra Early Career Award
HAMBURG, April 17, 2023 – Professor Torsten Hoefler of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, has been named the inaugural Jack Dongarra Early Career Award recipient. This award...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back A.I. Rivals
Been thinking about the interaction of Google and the changing AI world. I can see how they may lose if basic search is better served by chat oriented methods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI as an Agent and More
Thinking agents and more, lot of definitional info in links below, following up definitions:If you thought the pace of AI development had sped up since the release...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Region News: Europe
The 10th ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage™ 2023 is under way! This year the event is hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does Virtual Fitting Room Tech Discourage Sales?
Worked on the concept.Does Virtual Fitting Room Tech Discourage Sales?9 EXPERT COMMENTSDISCUSSIONby Tom Ryan, University research finds virtual fitting roomsResearchers...
From insideHPC
ALCF Digital Twins Webinar on April 19: How HPC is Personalizing the Future for Complex Systems
April 17, 2023 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a live streamed webinar on digital twins and HPC on Wednesday, April 19 from 3 to 3:40 pm Eastern...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Above and Beyond Scholarship – Adriana Wilde, PhD
Year of Scholarship and Conference Attendance: ICST 2013 7th International Conference on Sensing Technology Country of Origin: Venezuela Country of residence...
From Schneier on Security
Swatting as a Service
Motherboard is reporting on AI-generated voices being used for “swatting”: In fact, Motherboard has found, this synthesized call and another against Hempstead High...
From The Noisy Channel
Effective Query Triage
Search evaluation requires a variety of strategies.Evaluating search experiments, such as A/B tests, should focus on the size and direction of their impact.Alerting...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Solving problems you care about
Programmable design challenge: sixth formers on @QMUL's summer internship came up with creative solutions to solve real world problems.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Schoolbook Error/Discovery
Liam Squires is a fifth-grader at Virginia’s HM Pearson Elementary. He is now famous—after a story that is in print in today’s Sunday New York Times. Squires saw...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Potential Impact of Large Language Models on Jobs
As usual a great piece by Irving Wladawsky-Berger here, I am following through. Lots of good links, but these are available through the link below.The Potential...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Brains: Neurosymbolics
Thoughtful piece that outlines what is necessary for Building Future Intelligence. Not sure that current results are yet close to this. Year old. Technical. ...
From Geeking with Greg
Ubiquitous fake crowds
The Washington Post writes: "The Russian government has become far more successful at manipulating social media and search engine rankings than previously known...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How ChatGPT and Similar AI will Disrupt Education
Clearly a strong connection to elements of education.How ChatGPT and Similar AI will Disrupt EducationBy ScienceNews, April 14, 2023Students are turning to ChatGPT...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog