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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
Big Players Continue to Advance AI
From Google, Implications? Beyond chat? Announcing Google DeepMindApril 20, 2023Earlier today we announced some changes that will accelerate our progress in...
From Computational Complexity
Health Tech
On Tuesday, at the behest of an alumnus, I spent the afternoon at HIMSS, a large health tech conference being held at the big convention center in Chicago. When...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Defining interfaces in C++: concepts versus inheritance
In a previous blog post, I showed how you could define ‘an interface’ in C++ using concepts. For example, I can specify that a type should have the methods has_next...
From insideHPC
Oak Ridge Lab Study Seeks to Define Quantum Compression
April 19, 2023 — A study led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers identifies a new potential application in quantum computing that could be part of the next...![[Book] Interfaces and Us](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Interfaces and Us
When society relies on computer models and their interfaces to explain and predict everything from love to geopolitical conflicts, our own behaviour and choices...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS Panel Recaps: Improving Mental Health and Supporting Self-regulation with Technology
Mental well-being is essential to a happy life, and especially with the stresses of the pandemic heightening the mental health crisis plaguing the US and the world...
From insideHPC
SK hynix Says It Has Developed First 12-Layer HBM3
Seoul, April 20, 2023 – SK hynix Inc. announced today it has become the industry’s first to develop 12-layer HBM3 product with a 24 gigabyte (GB) memory capacity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will Generative AI Shape Retail Customer Service?
Good overview...How Will Generative AI Shape Retail Customer Service by Tom Ryan in RetailwireCustomer service reps (CSRs) continue to land on lists of the top...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Position of IBM Watson Assistant
Revisiting this. We were closely connected with IBM on their excellent earlier efforts. I get the feeling they are now scrambling now. Looking to see this...
From insideHPC
Neurala Announces Availability of Brain Builder on Sony AITRIOS Marketplace
Boston, Trieste and Hannover, Germany – April 20th, 2023 – Vision AI software company Neurala announced the availability of a new version of the company’s development...
From insideHPC
Swedish Researchers Use Error Mitigation Technique to Apply Quantum Computing to Chemistry
April 20, 2023 — Researchers at Chalmers University have announced that for the first time in Sweden, a quantum computer has been used for calculations within a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and the Disruption of Education
The topic has often been mentioned. Adaptations are under under way. In ScienceNews. It’s no wonder other tech companies have been racing to put out competing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Perplexity AI showing us the future of search?
Future of Search?Is Perplexity AI showing us the future of search?Perplexity hopes to carve out a slice of the massive web search market that Google has so thoroughly...
From Schneier on Security
New Zero-Click Exploits Against iOS
CitizenLab has identified three zero-click exploits against iOS 15 and 16. These were used by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in 2022, and deployed by Mexico against...
From Putting People First
The problem with cashless payments
Certain types of means of payment now seem indispensable for full participation in socioeconomic activity, yet they’re not necessarily available to everyone.
From insideHPC
Commercialising Quantum Global Conference to be Held in London on May 17
LONDON, April 19, 2023 — The 2023 version of the Commercialising Quantum Global conference, held for the first-time last year by The Economist Group, will takeCommercialising...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demystifying LLMs with Amazon distinguished scientists
Good pieceDemystifying LLMs with Amazon distinguished scientistsApril 18, 2023 • 2419 wordsWerner, Sudipta, and Dan behind the scenesLast week, I had a chanceSwami...
From The Noisy Channel
Exploring Search Intent as a Duality
Most of us who work on search focus on its engineering or product aspects. But I feel it’s valuable to also look at search philosophically. I’m no expert on philosophy...
From insideHPC
Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service for Unstructured Data Storage Now Available
SEATTLE– April 18, 2023 – Qumulo has announced Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service is now generally available from the Microsoft Azure portal. Companies can...
From The Eponymous Pickle