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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 Schneier on Security
The Software-Defined Car
Developers are starting to talk about the software-defined car. For decades, features have accumulated like cruft in new vehicles: a box here to control the antilock...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The gender shades audit
Face recognition technology is used widely, such as at passport controls and by police forces. What if it isn't as good at recognising faces as it has been claimed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing Using Chatbit Bing to Answer Questions
ChatGPT Using Bing to Answer QuestionsERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on May 23, 2023 at 1:00 pmChatGPT will start sourcing answers using Bing, Microsoft announced at its Build...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computer Tackles Airport Problem
Classic Problem.Quantum Computer Tackles Airport ProblemBy Popular ScienceMay 11, 2023Is there an optimal way to assign flights to gates?An international team of...
From Computational Complexity
Quantifiers: To Parenthesize or not to Parenthesize? Matrix of Formula: To Bracket or not to Bracket?
For the book Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Boundsby Demaine-Gasarch-Hajiaghayi (See here for a link to a first draft.) we had to...
From CERIAS Blog
AI and ML Sturm und Drang
I recently wrote up some thoughts on the current hype around ML and AI. I sent it to the Risks Digest. Peter Neumann (the moderator) published a much-abbreviated...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Playing the weighting game
How do search engines find the best web pages. It is like a giant talent contest where you want the best web pages to win. Karen Spärck Jones worked out how best...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google releases Bard to the world – but leaves the EU behind
Example of how Country/region regulation can stall uses, increase training, mauntenance needs. Google releases Bard to the world – but leaves the EU behind The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Race to Make AI Smaller, Smarter
The Race to Make AI Smaller, SmarterThe New York TimesOliver Whang, May 30, 2023The BabyLM Challenge, organized by computer scientists at institutions including...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Can Rewrite Code
Recently have heard some very good coders say, no can't happen professionally anytime soon. True? AI Rewrites Coding By Samuel GreengardCommunications of the...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Collecting mini-beasts and pocket monsters
Satoshi Tajiri created one of the biggest money-making media franchises of all time. It all started with his love of nature and, in particular, minibeasts. It also...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
“Tlahcuilo”, a visual composer
A main goal of computational creativity research is to help us better understand how this essential human characteristic, creativity, works. By building computer...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technogy links (June 3 2023)
There are fewer serial killers these days. Some suggests it is due to better forensic techniques: we catch the killers faster and more efficiently. Between theContinue...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Topping the Hat
An “einstein” that doesn’t need flipping Siobhan Roberts is a Canadian science journalist, biographer, and historian of mathematics. She has an article that appeared...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google: Search General Experience (SGE)
Google Labs writes (Click through for detail), had been brought to to my attention) 3 new ways generative AI can help you searchThis week, we began opening upRead...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making of a Mona Lisa Hologram (With pictures)
The Making of a Mona Lisa Hologram (With pictures) By AIP Publishing, June 2, 2023While the Mona Lisa hologram is two-dimensional, the technique can be extended...
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)