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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
Position of IBM Watson Assistant
Revisiting this. We were closely connected with IBM on their excellent earlier efforts. I get the feeling they are now scrambling now. Looking to see this...
From insideHPC
Neurala Announces Availability of Brain Builder on Sony AITRIOS Marketplace
Boston, Trieste and Hannover, Germany – April 20th, 2023 – Vision AI software company Neurala announced the availability of a new version of the company’s development...
From insideHPC
Swedish Researchers Use Error Mitigation Technique to Apply Quantum Computing to Chemistry
April 20, 2023 — Researchers at Chalmers University have announced that for the first time in Sweden, a quantum computer has been used for calculations within a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and the Disruption of Education
The topic has often been mentioned. Adaptations are under under way. In ScienceNews. It’s no wonder other tech companies have been racing to put out competing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Perplexity AI showing us the future of search?
Future of Search?Is Perplexity AI showing us the future of search?Perplexity hopes to carve out a slice of the massive web search market that Google has so thoroughly...
From Schneier on Security
New Zero-Click Exploits Against iOS
CitizenLab has identified three zero-click exploits against iOS 15 and 16. These were used by NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in 2022, and deployed by Mexico against...
From Putting People First
The problem with cashless payments
Certain types of means of payment now seem indispensable for full participation in socioeconomic activity, yet they’re not necessarily available to everyone.
From insideHPC
Commercialising Quantum Global Conference to be Held in London on May 17
LONDON, April 19, 2023 — The 2023 version of the Commercialising Quantum Global conference, held for the first-time last year by The Economist Group, will takeCommercialising...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demystifying LLMs with Amazon distinguished scientists
Good pieceDemystifying LLMs with Amazon distinguished scientistsApril 18, 2023 • 2419 wordsWerner, Sudipta, and Dan behind the scenesLast week, I had a chanceSwami...
From The Noisy Channel
Exploring Search Intent as a Duality
Most of us who work on search focus on its engineering or product aspects. But I feel it’s valuable to also look at search philosophically. I’m no expert on philosophy...
From insideHPC
Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service for Unstructured Data Storage Now Available
SEATTLE– April 18, 2023 – Qumulo has announced Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service is now generally available from the Microsoft Azure portal. Companies can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Artificial Intelligence is Matching Drugs to Patients
Considerable direction, following. How artificial intelligence is matching drugs to patients in the BBCPublished,2 days ago, By Natalie Lisbona, Business reporter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Commercial Sat Constellations
Been following for some time, Current and future plans. Have watched many launches. Ultimate data leverage goalsIn McKinsey: Expectations versus reality:April...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Changing its Tone
We talked to them, considering it a means to better manage internal resources. How LinkedIn is changing and why some are not happyBy Michael Dempsey the BBCTechnology...
From Schneier on Security
EFF on the UN Cybercrime Treaty
EFF has a good explainer on the problems with the new UN Cybercrime Treaty, currently being negotiated in Vienna. The draft treaty has the potential to rewrite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Avatars Getting Reading
How soon, how good?YOUR ROBOTIC AVATAR IS ALMOST READY in Spectrum IEEE By Evan AckermanWhat the Avatar XPrize revealed about the future of telepresence robots...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
An Award For Ellen Zegura
Ellen Zegura was just honored with the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award. The Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award recognizes outstanding achievement...
From insideHPC
ISC 2023 Announces Keynotes for Tuesday and Wednesday, May 23 and 24
HAMBURG – ISC 2023 has announced Tuesday and Wednesday (May 23 and 24) conference keynotes. ISC 2023 will be held at the Congress Center Hamburg from May 21 – 25...
From insideHPC
NERSC: Successor to Perlmutter AI Supercomputer Must Deliver 40 ExaFLOPS Mixed Precision
Last August, NERSC (the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced its intent to commission “NERSC...
From The Eponymous Pickle