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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
Enhanced Packaging via Google Lens
Enhancing packaging with scans? I thought this had been done already with QR codes, I still see it on packages. Google lens can be found on IOS and Android. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measures for AI
Essential to get these straight, sometimes quite simple, often not. How do they link to goals?The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI in Fast.AIWritten...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Did Super-Intelligent Giant Squid Steal an Underwater Research Station?
There's no proof they did, but there's no proof they didn't. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Supremacy
In a recent conversation the term 'Quantum Supremacy' came up and I mentioned it here, and the concept also was implied in some writing today. Google has made...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Wants to Take Facial Recognition Regulation Lead
A number of experts from the retail sector have comments in the full article:Amazon wants to take the lead on regulating facial recognition tech byTom Ryan in...
From Schneier on Security
Superhero Movies and Security Lessons
A paper I co-wrote was just published in Security Journal: "Superheroes on screen: real life lessons for security debates": Abstract: Superhero films and episodic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Unveils Cinci FoodHall
Look forward to seeing this in person. Particularly interested in seeing their multiple food court idea. Have in the past seen some of their test restaurant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supporting Multiple Device Assistance
I have devices from at least 12 suppliers in my smart home lab. The need is growing.Multi-Device Digital AssistanceBy Ryen W. White, Adam Fourney, Allen Herring...
From insideHPC
An Update on ARM in HPC
Brent Gorda from Arm gave this talk at the Linaro Connect conference. "Arm-based systems are showing up in the HPC community and new silicon is coming. The architecture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Presentation Language Released
Has been around now for a year, worth looking at as to how capabilities that link voice, text and animation can be constructed. Still need more ways to sweeten...
From insideHPC
Appentra announces Early Access Program for Parallelware Analyzer
Today Appentra announced the company is offering developers the opportunity to join the Early Access Program for Parallelware Analyzer. "While Appentra's Parallelware...
From insideHPC
Inspur Launches Open AI Computing Solution
Today Inspur announced a pair of AI-technology driven open computing systems designed to improve the flexibility in customer deployments. "The OAI specification...
From insideHPC
Adrian Tate named CEO of Numerical Algorithms Group
Today The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) announced that Adrian Tate is the company's new CEO. An established leader in the numerical libraries and HPC industries...
From insideHPC
HPE Deploys TX-GAIA Supercomputer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Today HPE announced announced the deployment of a new supercomputer at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center for compute-intensive AI applications and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tales of Ring Surveillance
The implications of cheap, widespread, continuous surveillance in the suburbs has got me thinking of late. And then this Wired piece on just this topic came up...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Chatbot connected to Cryptocurrency Blockchain?
Very interesting idea of linking a chatbot with various cryptocurrency use possibilities. A kind of assistant play. Some suggested ideas about how this might...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Regulating AI, Digital Identity, Blockchain
A pretty broad swath of technology being covered here. Will this stunt emergent technology? Note the inclusion of 'Other innovative technologies'. Do we imagine...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A CERN for Climate Change and the National Security Implications of Cybersecurity
The following post is from Khari Douglas, who is currently at the 2019 Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Heidelberg Germany. Every year at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Quantum Switch-Em
A recipe for changing the objectives of problems Composite crop of src1, src2, src3 Aram Harrow, Avinatan Hassidim, and Seth Lloyd are quantum stars who have done...
From The Eponymous Pickle