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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
ChatGPT in Cars?
MS Chat Virtual Assistants in cars?ChatGPT could power voice assistants in General Motors vehiclesThe automaker is reportedly using Microsoft’s Azure cloud service...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do We Need a National Algorithms Safety Board?
Safety is yes, means of determining that is the issue. Especially with regard to transportation and related supply chain decisions and risks. Do We Need a National...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Responds to RFI on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan
CCC submitted a response to a Request for Information (RFI) released by Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), National Coordination...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Inspiring Wendy Hall
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London This article is inspired by a keynote talk Wendy Hall gave at the ITiCSE conference in Madrid, 2008. What inspires...
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Optical Algorithm Simplifies Analog AI Training
Thinking this, possibilities and implications. Optical Algorithm Simplifies Analog AI Training When backpropagation loses its bite, this approach may substitute...
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VR Headset Gives you X-Ray Vision!
Possibilities are considerable in VRworldMIT researchers invented an augmented reality headset that gives humans X-ray vision. The invention, dubbed X-AR, combines...
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Fashion and Generative AI
Did some work in fashion as it related to clothing care, possible connection here. Generative AI: Unlocking the future of fashion McKinseyMarch 8, 2023 | Article...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Barbara Liskov: Byzantine birthdays
You may not think of computers as argumentative, but some of them do bicker quite a lot, and for good reason. They often need to, including to get things right...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 11 2023)
In 1500, China was the largest economy in the world, followed by India and France. The USA did not exist yet. In 1700, 4% of human beings lived in France. In the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
I believe chatbots understand part of what they say. Let me explain.
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder does a good job in comparing the understanding exhibited by chatbot with our understanding of quantum Mechanics, along the way describes...
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Automating Programming
Will the newest AI automate much/all programming work?CACMmag (@Communications of the ACM) Tweeted:The embrace of #ArtificialIntelligence #tools such as #ChatGPT...
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Bain & Company and AI
Investigating how key consultants are positioning themselves regarding AI methods. Here is a start. Artificial IntelligenceAI-based technologies and applications...
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Back to Synthetic Data
Have not talked this for sometime, still interesting.What is Synthetic Data? The Good, the Bad, and the UglySharing data can often enable compelling applications...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Trimming spaces from strings faster with SVE on an Amazon Graviton 3 processor
Programmers sometimes need to trim, or remove, characters, such as spaces from strings. It might be a surprising expensive task. In C, the following function is...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Chinese Squid Fishing in the Southeast Pacific
Chinese squid fishing boats are overwhelming Ecuador and Peru. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that Ihere...
From insideHPC
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation Elects Project Boards for Rocky Linux, Peridot
RENO, Nev.—March 10, 2023—The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) today announced the inaugural projects and project boards that will initiate the workRocky...
From insideHPC
UK Looks to Join Exascale Club of Nations
The U.K.’s growing supercomputing infrastructure may include exascale-class HPC within a few years. A Bloomberg report states that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’sUK...
From Schneier on Security
Elephant Hackers
An elephant uses its right-of-way privileges to stop sugar-cane trucks and grab food.
From The Eponymous Pickle
COVID Modelers Expand their Missions
COVID Modelers Expand their Missions, By Gregory GothCommissioned by CACM Staff,March 9, 2023Last August, the University of Texas COVID-19 Model Consortium posted...
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