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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
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
On the Catastrophic Risk of AI
Earlier this week, I signed on to a short group statement, coordinated by the Center for AI Safety: Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eight AI Risk Types:
Excerpted from ChatGPT, 6/1/2023, Useful overviewThe “eight AI risk types” framework refers to a categorization proposed by researchers at the Future of Humanity...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The CCC Announces New Council Members for 2023
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed five new members to the Computing Community...
From insideHPC
GPU Cloud Provider CoreWeave Secures $200M Series B Extension
ROSELAND, N.J. — May 31, 2023 — CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider built for large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, today announced an additional $200 million...
From insideHPC