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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
NVIDIA GTC Developer Conference: Metaverse: AI
NVIDIA GTC Developer Conference March 20-23, 2023Keynote March 21Metaverse/AI Developer sessions.Here are short developer descriptions of developer sessions, ...
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Considering Ambient IoT
Good intro and discussion, and in particular thoughts about how this finally implements 'smart' cheaply and with easier integration of sensors and low power requirements...
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The Promise and Difficulty of Geothermal Energy
Have a long time interest in Geothermal Energy. I see that Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder has a good state of the technology view of this effort in Youtube at:...
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Tech Talk: The State of Data Mesh
New to me, may attend, details below and at the link.ACM TechTalksMarch 7 Talk, "State of Data Mesh" with Data Mesh Creator Zhamak Dehghani, CEO of NextdataRegister...
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Microsoft Plans to Bring Ads to AI
Lets get it right first.Microsoft is reportedly already planning to bring ads to Bing's AI chatbot It's early days, but Microsoft is figuring out how to monetize...
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What will it Take for Security to be Taken very Seriously?
Good considerable piece by Bruce Schneier, aiming at the Policy Makers. Intro: What Will It Take?What will it take for policy makers to take cybersecurity seriously...
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Labeling Your Retail Shelf Spaces
Worked this topic at some length in our lab and with retailers, still evolving. ... Retail advancements Electronic shelf labels can significantly transform...
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Quantum Breakthrough Could Revolutionise computing
Multi tasking quantum?Quantum breakthrough could revolutionise computing in the BBCTwenty years ago Winfried Hensinger was told by other scientists that developing...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Thermal Batteries from Squid Proteins
Researchers are making thermal batteries from “a synthetic material that’s derived from squid ring teeth protein.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to...
From insideHPC
DOE Funding Opportunity for National Labs and Partners: $80M for Emerging Technologies R&D
Feb. 17, 2023 — Washington, DC — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced $80 million, provided by the Office of Science, to support fundamental researchDOE...
From insideHPC
Frontier Pushes Boundaries: 86% of Nodes Engaged on Reactor Simulation Runs
Details have trickled out of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) indicating progress in preparing Frontier, the exascale-class supercomputer ranked...
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Putting Limits to Vehicle Tech
Limits of autonomous vehicle tech?Carmakers Are Pushing Autonomous Tech. This Engineer Wants Limits. By The New York Times.February 16, 2023Systems like General...
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Walking-Flying Spidar
Complex but very interesting thing out of Tokyo, Can get you some ware fast and then walk the rest of the way. The arrival may be scary, but you then haveOh...
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Training Data from Audiobooks?
Ultimately its all about training data. And the quality of that data. Of course a Google gets lots of language data, but its it the right quality and type? ...
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Priorities for Research in ChatGPT
ChatGPT: Five Priorities for Research (Opinion in CACM) By Nature, February 3, 2023A smartphone trying to connect to ChatGPT has message stating that it is too...
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Israeli First Responders in Turkey
Emergency response combining rapid attention and needed data for complex care and communication. Israeli First Responders in Turkey Use Real-Time Tech for Remote...
From Schneier on Security
Defending against AI Lobbyists
When is it time to start worrying about artificial intelligence interfering in our democracy? Maybe when an AI writes a letter to The New York Times opposing the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Computing the UTF-8 size of a Latin 1 string quickly (AVX edition)
Computers represent strings using bytes. Most often, we use the Unicode standard to represent characters in bytes. The universal format to exchange strings online...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NITRD Publishes a Request for Information on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan
On behalf of Federal agencies and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Cyber Security and Information Assurance Interagency...
From insideHPC