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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
Deep Mind Memory Trick
A deeper yet biomimicry?How DeepMind’s Memory Trick Helps AI Learn FasterWhile AI systems can match many human capabilities, they take 10 times longer to learn....
From insideHPC
Intersect360 Research Testimony on China’s Pursuit of HPC World Domination
On Thursday, the U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission (USCC) held a hearing on the current and potential future state of supercomputing innovation worldwide...
From Schneier on Security
New Gmail Phishing Scam
The article is right; this is frighteningly good....
From The Eponymous Pickle
UPS Testing Drones
How can they attached to the supply chain? Nests in the truck roof? Discussion: In Retailwire:Can UPS fly past Amazon in drone delivery? by Matthew SternAmazon...
From Computational Complexity
NP in ZPP implies PH in ZPP
If NP is in ZPP is the entire polynomial-time hierarchy in ZPP? I saw this result used in an old TCS Stackexchange post but I couldn't find a proof (comment ifharder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversation: Beyond Moments of Truth
Its all about conversation. It used to be about 'moments of truth', but now more about much more fluid conversations that can be generated and sustained byIn...
From insideHPC
Overview of the HGX-1 AI Accelerator Chassis
"The Project Olympus hyperscale GPU accelerator chassis for AI, also referred to as HGX-1, is designed to support eight of the latest “Pascal” generation NVIDIA...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2017- The Technology of the Future
Contributions to this post were provided by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council members Maja Matarić and Shwetak Patel. Recently, we have been highlighting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on Home Bots
Good piece, though ultimately driving the smart home will need many new 'things' present to influence digitally. We have started to see examples with Cortana,Article...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Computer Science Tries to Predict March Madness
Need some last minute help with your bracket before March Madness tips off? Check out the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s (UIUC) Bracketodds, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Dangers and Risks
Continued talk on the topic. AI Dangers: Imagined and Real By Devdatt Dubhashi, Shalom LappinCommunications of the ACM, Vol. 60 No. 2, Pages 43-4510.1145/2953876...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Driven Automation in Law
In some ways, the most obvious application. A heavily document and analysis driven world. Was frequently mentioned in the 80s, but not implemented because the...
From insideHPC
Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab to Install D-Wave 2000Q System
Today D-Wave Systems announced that Google, NASA, and Universities Space Research Association (USRA) have elected to upgrade to the new D-Wave 2000Q system. The...
From insideHPC
Ethernet Alliance to Demo 400G Networks at OFC 2017
Today the Ethernet Alliance announced plans of details of its upcoming OFC 2017 interoperability demo featuring the full spectrum of Ethernet speeds from 1 Gigabit...
From insideHPC
SUSE Adds HPC Module for ARM-based Systems
Over at the SUSE Blog, Jay Kruemcke writes that the High-Performance Computing Module (HPC Module) for SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES) is now available for 64-bitSUSE...
From insideHPC
Creating Applications with the Intel Computer Vision SDK
"In order for developers to be able to focus on their application, a Vision Algorithm Designer application is included in the Intel Computer Vision SDK. This gives...
From Schneier on Security
Using Intel's SGX to Attack Itself
Researchers have demonstrated using Intel's Software Guard Extensions to hide malware and steal cryptographic keys from inside SGX's protected enclave: Malware...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Folding Clothes
In a long while ago meeting about how easy it was to do various household tasks, it was brought up that while washing clothes was relatively easy, folding them...
From The Eponymous Pickle