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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
Priomise of Holographic Displays
ACM NEWSTalked these in terms of advertisingThe Promise of Holographic DisplaysBy Sandrine CeurstemontCommissioned by CACM Staff, June 1, 2023Unlike today's two...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating high-yielding Hybrid Crops that can be Propagated indefinitely
Unmixed Blessing?Researchers are Closing in on the long-sought goal of creating high-yielding hybrid crops that can be Propagated Indefinitely 18 MAY 2023 BYERIK...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fruit Picking Robotics
Fruit-Picking Robot Eve Ready to Harvest Apples Commercially, as Shortage of Workers PersistsBy ABC News (Australia), May 25, 2023Eve, the fruit-picking robot....
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Follow those ants
Ant colonies are really good at adapting to changing situations: far better than humans. Sameena Shah wondered if Artificial Intelligence agents might do better...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Chromolithographs
Beautiful illustrations. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog postinghere...
From insideHPC
Report: CoreWeave Wins Miscrosoft Deal for GPU Cloud Services Worth Billions
Suddenly, GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is one of the hot tech companies of the week and likely longer. No sooner did the Roseland, NY, startup announce on Wednesday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply To AI Training
Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply To AI TrainingBy Technomancers.aiJune 1, 2023.Not everyone in Japan is on board with this decision. Many anime and graphic...
From Schneier on Security
Open-Source LLMs
In February, Meta released its large language model: LLaMA. Unlike OpenAI and its ChatGPT, Meta didn’t just give the world a chat window to play with. Instead,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
Security hole potential in most everything. Fix it.The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and BingBy Wired, May 26, 2023Security experts warn that not enough...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Peripheral Vision for Machines
Beyond roboticsThe Benefits of Peripheral Vision for MachinesResearchers find similarities between how some computer-vision systems process images and how humans...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Combinatorics or Logic?
Or is it number theory? Julius Büchi was a Swiss mathematician who taught at Purdue University for many years. His is arguably a case of influence—in multiple fields...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The first computer wizard
Christopher Strachey did a series of firsts in computer programming, and that was just when he was playing.
From insideHPC
Power Grid Modeling Tool Launched on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
Exascale Grid Optimization (ExaGO), a power grid simulation and optimization platform developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is the first of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Advances in AI
Excerpt from ChatGPT, General Statement, China Status and AdvancesChina has made significant advancements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent...
From insideHPC
Photonics Compute and Interconnect Startup Lightmatter Raises $154M Series C Funding, Targets HPC and AI Workloads
BOSTON – Photonics computing company Lightmatter announced it has raised $154 million in a Series C investment round, bringing to $270 million that the companyPhotonics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
With Electronics in His Brain, Spine, Paralyzed Man Takes a Stride
With Electronics in His Brain, Spine, Paralyzed Man Takes a StrideThe Washington PostDaniel Gilbert, May 24, 2023An international team of scientists and neurosurgeons...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Peak credentialism
How much is a degree from a prestigious university worth? The answer is a bit difficult to answer because there are many cofounding factors: people from the connected...
From insideHPC
At ISC 2023: A DNN Update on Its Latest High Performance Data Storage/Data Management Solutions for HPC and AI
At ISC 2023, we caught up with DDN Vice President of Marketing Kurt Kuckein on new product offerings from the high performance storage and data management company...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. No One Can Agree How
Clear, but essential. Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. No One Can Agree How, By Wired, May 31, 2023Clamping limits on such a nascent technology, even one whose baby...
From Schneier on Security