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Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back A.I. Rivals
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Devising Radical Search Changes to Beat Back A.I. Rivals

Been thinking about the interaction of Google and the changing AI world.   I can see how they may lose if basic search is better served by chat oriented methods...

AI as an Agent and More
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI as an Agent and More

 Thinking agents and more, lot of definitional info in links below, following up definitions:If you thought the pace of AI development had sped up since the release...

ACM-W Region News: Europe
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

ACM-W Region News: Europe

The 10th ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage™ 2023 is under way! This year the event is hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology...

Does Virtual Fitting Room Tech Discourage Sales?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Does Virtual Fitting Room Tech Discourage Sales?

 Worked on the concept.Does Virtual Fitting Room Tech Discourage Sales?9 EXPERT COMMENTSDISCUSSIONby Tom Ryan,  University research finds virtual fitting roomsResearchers...

ALCF Digital Twins Webinar on April 19: How HPC is Personalizing the Future for Complex Systems
From insideHPC

ALCF Digital Twins Webinar on April 19: How HPC is Personalizing the Future for Complex Systems

April 17, 2023 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a live streamed webinar on digital twins and HPC on Wednesday, April 19 from 3 to 3:40 pm Eastern...

Above and Beyond Scholarship – Adriana Wilde, PhD
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Above and Beyond Scholarship – Adriana Wilde, PhD

Year of Scholarship and Conference Attendance: ICST 2013 7th International Conference on Sensing Technology​​ Country of Origin: Venezuela Country of residence...

Swatting as a Service
From Schneier on Security

Swatting as a Service

Motherboard is reporting on AI-generated voices being used for “swatting”: In fact, Motherboard has found, this synthesized call and another against Hempstead High...

Effective Query Triage
From The Noisy Channel

Effective Query Triage

Search evaluation requires a variety of strategies.Evaluating search experiments, such as A/B tests, should focus on the size and direction of their impact.Alerting...

Solving problems you care about
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Solving problems you care about

Programmable design challenge: sixth formers on @QMUL's summer internship came up with creative solutions to solve real world problems.

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Schoolbook Error/Discovery

Liam Squires is a fifth-grader at Virginia’s HM Pearson Elementary. He is now famous—after a story that is in print in today’s Sunday New York Times. Squires saw...

The Potential Impact of Large Language Models on Jobs
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Potential Impact of Large Language Models on Jobs

As usual a great piece by Irving Wladawsky-Berger here, I am following through.  Lots of good links, but these are available through the link below.The Potential...

Robot Brains: Neurosymbolics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Brains: Neurosymbolics

Thoughtful piece that outlines what is necessary for Building Future Intelligence.  Not sure that current results are yet close to this.  Year old.  Technical. ...

Ubiquitous fake crowds
From Geeking with Greg

Ubiquitous fake crowds

The Washington Post writes: "The Russian government has become far more successful at manipulating social media and search engine rankings than previously known...

How ChatGPT and Similar AI will Disrupt Education
From The Eponymous Pickle

How ChatGPT and Similar AI will Disrupt Education

 Clearly a strong connection to elements of education.How ChatGPT and Similar AI will Disrupt EducationBy ScienceNews, April 14, 2023Students are turning to ChatGPT...

Science and Technology links (April 15 2023)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (April 15 2023)

Some university professor include ‘trigger warnings’ in their course material, to warn students that potentially disturbing content may be encountered. According...

What are Foundation Models?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What are Foundation Models?

 What Are Foundation Models?Foundation models are AI neural networks trained on massive unlabeled datasets to handle a wide variety of jobs from translating text...

Snake Robot
From The Eponymous Pickle

Snake Robot

New locations to exploreNasa-JPL snake robot explores extreme terrainNasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing an exobiology extant life surveyor (EELS). It...

Record Network Sync Beyween National Labs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Record Network Sync Beyween National Labs

Record Network Sync Between National LabsPRESS RELEASE | ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORYQuantum network between two national labs achieves record synchBY JOHN SPIZZIRRI...

Siemens Metaverse Leak
From The Eponymous Pickle

Siemens Metaverse Leak

 Was Unaware of Siemens Metaverse, but here an example. Was this connected to ChatGPT use? In SecurityAffairs.    NVIDIA Connection. Siemens Metaverse, a virtual...

Google Maps Parks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Maps Parks

Nice move, soon to be there.Finally, it’s easier to navigate national parks using Google Maps  inTheVergeSoon, it won’t be so painful to find your way around aparks...
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