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What Does it Mean to be Smart in an Age of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Does it Mean to be Smart in an Age of AI

Excerpt from McKinsey  Complete video at the link.Author Talks: In the ‘age of AI,’ what does it mean to be smart?March 16, 2023 | InterviewAs artificial intelligence...

Wolfram can Plug into GPT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wolfram can Plug into GPT

Saw this hinted at a while back. Wolfram Alpha has had unique analytic capabilities for some time, now you can link these to ChatGPT.  Via a plugin.   Apparently...

Exploding USB Sticks
From Schneier on Security

Exploding USB Sticks

In case you don’t have enough to worry about, people are hiding explosives—actual ones—in USB sticks: In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist Lenin Artieda of...

Security Issues in AI Emerge
From The Eponymous Pickle

Security Issues in AI Emerge

There seems to have been an urge to get some of these systems out before securing them.ChatGPT bug leaked users' conversation histories  in the BBCOpenAI launched...

ML Physics Platform NVIDIA Modulus is Open
From The Eponymous Pickle

ML Physics Platform NVIDIA Modulus is Open

 New things out of NVIDIA Resources, Fascinating,  Sample Uses?Machine Learning Platform NVIDIA Modulus Is Now Open SourceBy Bhoomi Gadhia, Ram Cherukuri and Kristen...

AI being used to cherry-pick organs for transplant
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI being used to cherry-pick organs for transplant

 AI being used to cherry-pick organs for transplantBy Duncan MacRae | March 2, 2023 | MarketingTech  in ArtificialIntelligenceDuncan is an award-winning editorA...

Wave of Stealthy China Cyberattacks Hits U.S., Private Networks, Google Says
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wave of Stealthy China Cyberattacks Hits U.S., Private Networks, Google Says

 Wave of Stealthy China Cyberattacks Hits U.S., Private Networks, Google SaysBy The Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2023China has routinely denied hacking into businesses...

Persistent Computing and Virtual Worlds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Persistent Computing and Virtual Worlds

 Worked a number of virtual world projects, never considered them persistent computing.  Useful thought.Yu Yuan on Building A Persistent Virtual World The IEEEDespite...

QuEra Partnering with NERSC on Quantum Evaluation
From insideHPC

QuEra Partnering with NERSC on Quantum Evaluation

Boston, March 23, 2023 – Quantum computing company QuEra Computing today announced a partnership with the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center giving...

Interview: Ansys Talks CAD/CAE in the Cloud and Ansys Gateway Powered by AWS
From insideHPC

Interview: Ansys Talks CAD/CAE in the Cloud and Ansys Gateway Powered by AWS

[SPONSORED GUEST INTERVIEW] In this interview with Jane Trenaman, vice president of portfolio product management at Ansys, she discusses the growing importance...

“Emerging Election Technologies Enhancing Integrity, Transparency, and Confidence” AAAS Panel Recap
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

“Emerging Election Technologies Enhancing Integrity, Transparency, and Confidence” AAAS Panel Recap

Elections that are safe, secure, and verifiable by the public are an essential part of every democratic government. There have been public outcries for changes...

From Computational Complexity

A Strange Hiring Season

In my fall jobs post, I had trouble predicting this season's CS faculty job market but I didn't expect this:  strong supply and strong demand, something we haven't...

Bard is Out and Being Tested in Changed World of High Expectations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bard is Out and Being Tested in Changed World of High Expectations

 Google has announced their model, has been getting some criticism.  But as they say it is still just a  test.  There are lots of models jumping out there.    Google...

AI Voice Scan
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Voice Scan

Vocal scams commonly used.AI Voice Scam, an example of some of the dangers involved.  They Thought Loved Ones Were Calling for Help. It Was an AI Scam  By The Washington...

Mass Ransomware Attack
From Schneier on Security

Mass Ransomware Attack

A vulnerability in a popular data transfer tool has resulted in a mass ransomware attack: TechCrunch has learned of dozens of organizations that used the affected...

Can GPT pass my programming courses?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Can GPT pass my programming courses?

Professeur Caplan reports that ChatGPT, the new AI that is all the rage, can pass his economics midterm and get an A. What about computer science ? I submittedContinue...

GitHub unveils Copilot X: The Future of AI-powered Software Development
From The Eponymous Pickle

GitHub unveils Copilot X: The Future of AI-powered Software Development

Now here is a future that has some real value ... GitHub unveils Copilot X: The future of AI-powered software developmentMichael Nuñez in Venturebeat@MichaelFNunez...

TACC: Simulation Reveals Secrets of Exotic Electrons
From insideHPC

TACC: Simulation Reveals Secrets of Exotic Electrons

March 22, 2023 — The Texas Advanced Computing Center has announced that simulations on TACC’s Frontera supercomputer have helped scientists map for the first time...

Large language models also Work for Protein Structures
From The Eponymous Pickle

Large language models also Work for Protein Structures

We asked this question long ago, usefully answered?  Very big deal if so.THE LANGUAGE OF BIOCHEMISTRY —Large language models also work for protein structuresTraining...

National Black Engineer Awards Celebrate Sandia Labs Scientists
From insideHPC

National Black Engineer Awards Celebrate Sandia Labs Scientists

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 22, 2023 — Three Sandia National Laboratories professionals recently received 2023 Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA). Danielle Stephenson...
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