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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 Computational Complexity
Why I have some sympathy for the Simulation Theory (We are all characters in a video game.)
There are some people who believe that we are all characters in a video game written by Abisola (this is sometimes called The Simulation Hypothesis). I first dismissed...
From insideHPC
Ikigai Labs Raises $25M to Bring Generative AI for Tabular Data
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24, 2023 -- Ikigai Labs, a company focused on generative AI for tabular data, today announced $25M of new capital by Premji Invest with participation...
From Schneier on Security
White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge
At Black Hat last week, the White House announced an AI Cyber Challenge. Gizmodo reports: The new AI cyber challenge (which is being abbreviated “AIxCC”) will have...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
How far can you hear? Modelling distant birdsong.
by Dan Stowell, Queen Mary University of London How do we know how many birds there are out there: in the countryside, and in the city? Usually, it’s because people...
From Geeking with Greg
AI letter signers not worried about doomsday AI
An article in Wired, "A Letter Prompted Talk of AI Doomsday. Many Who Signed Weren't Actually AI Doomers": A significant number of those who signed were, it seems...
From Geeking with Greg
Challenges using LLMs for startups
Someone (not an AI expert) was asking me about applying large language models (LLMs, like ChatGPT) to a particular product. In case it's useful to others, here's...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Brand Fish Sauce
Squid Brand is a Thai company that makes fish sauce: It is part of Squid Brand’s range of “personalized healthy fish sauces” that cater to different consumer groups...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512
Though most strings online today follow the Unicode standard (e.g., using UTF-8), the Latin 1 standard is still in widespread inside some systems (such as browsers)...
From Schneier on Security
Bots Are Better than Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs
Interesting research: “An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs“: Abstract: For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAS have been widely used as a means of protection...
From insideHPC
ADLINK Announces COM-HPC Module
SAN JOSE, Aug. 15, 2023 — The ADLINK COM-HPC-cRLS Client type Size C module based on 13th Gen Intel Core processor is available for order with: o up to 13th...
From insideHPC
DOE Awards $16M for Particle Accelerator Research
Aug. 17, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million in funding for research projects in particle accelerator science and technology. Total...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting “Violations of Social Norms” in Text with AI
Researchers are trying to use AI to detect “social norms violations.” Feels a little sketchy right now, but this is the sort of thing that AIs will get better at...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
How Smartphones and Watches are Revolutionizing Global Health
Previous CCC Council Member Shwetak Patel’s research was recently featured in a ZME Science article “Can we screen the world? How smartphones and watches are revolutionizing...
From Schneier on Security
UK Electoral Commission Hacked
The UK Electoral Commission discovered last year that it was hacked the year before. That’s fourteen months between the hack and the discovery. It doesn’t know...
From insideHPC
Los Alamos Reports Hardware Approach Offers New Quantum Computing Paradigm
Aug. 15, 2023 — Los Alamost National Laboratory reported today that a potentially game-changing theoretical approach to quantum computing hardware avoids some of...
From insideHPC
AI Startup Portkey.ai Secures $3M Funding
San Francisco – August 23, 2023: Portkey.ai is today announcing a $3m seed funding round empowering engineering teams to build and launch generative AI apps faster...
From insideHPC
Quantum Physicists from Quantinuum and Chubu University Team on Quantum AI and Cognition Research
Oxford and Kasugai, Japan, August 23, 2023 – Quantum computing company Quantinuum and Chubu University in Japan have announced a partnership, co-led by Professors...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Announces Performance of New Quantum Hybrid Solver
BURNABY, B.C., PALO ALTO, Calif. — August 22, 2023 — Quantum computing systems and software company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today announced an update to...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Announces AI-Ready Servers from Dell, HPE and Lenovo for Generative AI
August 22, 2023 — NVIDIA today announced system manufacturers will deliver AI-ready servers that support VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, announced separately...
From insideHPC