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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 Putting People First
Ageing with smartphones
Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland, Urban Italy, Urban Brazil, Urban Chile, Urban China and Uganda: six free open access books as part of the five year "Anthropology...
From CERIAS Blog
Reflections on the 2023 RSA Conference
I have attended 14 of the last 22 RSA conferences. I missed the last three because of COVID avoidance; many people I know who went became infected and contributed...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAAS Panel Recap: Maintaining a Rich Breadth for Artificial Intelligence
The final CCC panel of AAAS 2023, “Maintaining a Rich Breadth for Artificial Intelligence”, was held on Sunday, March 5th, the last day of the conference. This...
From The Noisy Channel
Minimalist Models for Search Ranking
Search application developers put a lot of effort into optimizing the ranking of search results, especially in areas like ecommerce, where incremental ranking improvements...
From insideHPC
NSF Launches $9.5M Opportunity to Support NSF Innovation Engines
April 27, 2023 — The U.S. National Science Foundation is seeking one or more organizations to develop, launch and run a Builder Platform to support the anticipated...
From insideHPC
Simulating a More Detailed Universe with Frontier Exascale HPC
A trio of new cosmological simulation codes was unveiled in presentations at the annual April Meeting of the American Physical Society in Minneapolis by Oak Ridge...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Hotspot performance engineering fails
Developers often believe that software performance follows a Pareto distribution: 80% of the running time is spent in 20% of the code. Using this model, you can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do Retailers Need to Have the AI Talk With Consumers?
Likely not, but since its easy to do expect some testsDo Retailers Need to Have the AI Talk With Consumers? by Tom Ryan in RetailWireRecent surveys show consumers...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UASG Elects New Leadership to Continue Building a Multilingual Internet
By the UASG The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has elected a new Chair and three new Vice Chairs as its leadership team. Made up of representativesUASG...
From Schneier on Security
Security Risks of AI
Stanford and Georgetown have a new report on the security risks of AI—particularly adversarial machine learning—based on a workshop they held on the topic. Jimblog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GBTChat in Business Doing More or Less than Expected?
Interesting example here.A Case case of GPTChat doing less than expected? Causes? Next? Mostly positive, but the interviewer completely skeptical.ARTIFICIAL...
From insideHPC
Intel Announces Deepak Patil to Head Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group
Intel said today that Deepak Patil will serve as corporate vice president and general manager of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) group. Patil...
From Computational Complexity
Comic Book Alignment
Talk about AI "alignment" makes me think of a time in the 1950s that a group of companies decided tocreate an industry organization to self-govern their work to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Reports and Whitepapers Released in April
April was a big month for the Computing Community Consortium, releasing two workshop reports and one white paper on pressing topics within the computing research...
From Apophenia
Too Big to Challenge?
I find it deeply disturbing that the tech industry represents 9% of the U.S. GDP and only five Big Tech companies account for 25% of the S&P 500. Prior to Covid...
From insideHPC
Swiss Vault Joins Active Archive Alliance
BOULDER, Colo., April 26, 2023 – The Active Archive Alliance today announced that Swiss Vault has joined the organization. The Active Archive Alliance is a collaboration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What's Behind the ChatGPT History Change?
Apparently some considerable changes/interpretations of data and use in Europe and Beyond. And to some degree preventing the use of your data for training. May...
From insideHPC
Customer Cosmos by Tredence Wins 2023 Data Breakthrough Award
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 26, 2023 – Tredence, a data science and AI solutions company, today announced that its Customer Cosmos solution was named “Data Visualization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Unilever Expedites Product Innovation, AI, Automation and Robots
We saw similar trial adoption in the 80s and 90s.How Unilever Expedites Product Innovation, AI, Automation and RoboticsLiz Dominguez Image Unilever DoveRobots...
From insideHPC