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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
Commercial Sat Constellations
Been following for some time, Current and future plans. Have watched many launches. Ultimate data leverage goalsIn McKinsey: Expectations versus reality:April...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Changing its Tone
We talked to them, considering it a means to better manage internal resources. How LinkedIn is changing and why some are not happyBy Michael Dempsey the BBCTechnology...
From Schneier on Security
EFF on the UN Cybercrime Treaty
EFF has a good explainer on the problems with the new UN Cybercrime Treaty, currently being negotiated in Vienna. The draft treaty has the potential to rewrite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Avatars Getting Reading
How soon, how good?YOUR ROBOTIC AVATAR IS ALMOST READY in Spectrum IEEE By Evan AckermanWhat the Avatar XPrize revealed about the future of telepresence robots...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
An Award For Ellen Zegura
Ellen Zegura was just honored with the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award. The Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award recognizes outstanding achievement...
From insideHPC
ISC 2023 Announces Keynotes for Tuesday and Wednesday, May 23 and 24
HAMBURG – ISC 2023 has announced Tuesday and Wednesday (May 23 and 24) conference keynotes. ISC 2023 will be held at the Congress Center Hamburg from May 21 – 25...
From insideHPC
NERSC: Successor to Perlmutter AI Supercomputer Must Deliver 40 ExaFLOPS Mixed Precision
Last August, NERSC (the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced its intent to commission “NERSC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ada Debuts Generative AI Customer Service Automation
We will see much more of this in coming yearsAda Debuts Generative AI Customer Service AutomationVoicebot.ai by Eric Hal Schwartz / April 18, 2023 Customer service...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodast: Supercomputing Strategists Look out 20 Years at the Post-Exascale HPC Future
Post-exascale supercomputing for the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration) is the subject of a new report by a distinguished review committee comprised...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching BabyAGI
Inevitable and scary? Agents teaching your models bottom up.Auto-GPT and BabyAGI: How ‘autonomous agents’ are bringing generative AI to the massesAutonomous agents...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence
Quite New too me, interesting shows alternative approaches. Worth a look. A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial IntelligenceAnil Ananthaswamy, Contributing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Musk's 'TruthGBT' being talked
Much talk about thisnow, but what will it mean?Elon Musk's 'TruthGPT' is coming, but will it be any different from other chatbots?By Muskaan Saxena in TechRadar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LLMs and Bioweapons
Bruce Schneier reports: Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons?I’m not sure there are good ways to build guardrails to prevent this sort of thing: There is growing concern...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ian Hogarth Says Slow Down in The Financial Times
He writes: We must slow down the race to God-like AII’ve invested in more than 50 artificial intelligence start-ups. What I’ve seen worries meIan Hogarth, APRIL...
From Schneier on Security
Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons
I’m not sure there are good ways to build guardrails to prevent this sort of thing: There is growing concern regarding the potential misuse of molecular machine...
From insideHPC
SafeGuard Raises $8M for AI to Predict Worksite Accidents
Tel Aviv — April 17th, 2023 — SafeGuard, a company that uses machine learning to predict worksite accidents in the construction industry, today announced an $8SafeGuard...
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