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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 insideHPC
@HPCpodast: Supercomputing Strategists Look out 20 Years at the Post-Exascale HPC Future
Post-exascale supercomputing for the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration) is the subject of a new report by a distinguished review committee comprised...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching BabyAGI
Inevitable and scary? Agents teaching your models bottom up.Auto-GPT and BabyAGI: How ‘autonomous agents’ are bringing generative AI to the massesAutonomous agents...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence
Quite New too me, interesting shows alternative approaches. Worth a look. A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial IntelligenceAnil Ananthaswamy, Contributing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Musk's 'TruthGBT' being talked
Much talk about thisnow, but what will it mean?Elon Musk's 'TruthGPT' is coming, but will it be any different from other chatbots?By Muskaan Saxena in TechRadar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LLMs and Bioweapons
Bruce Schneier reports: Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons?I’m not sure there are good ways to build guardrails to prevent this sort of thing: There is growing concern...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ian Hogarth Says Slow Down in The Financial Times
He writes: We must slow down the race to God-like AII’ve invested in more than 50 artificial intelligence start-ups. What I’ve seen worries meIan Hogarth, APRIL...
From Schneier on Security
Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons
I’m not sure there are good ways to build guardrails to prevent this sort of thing: There is growing concern regarding the potential misuse of molecular machine...
From insideHPC
SafeGuard Raises $8M for AI to Predict Worksite Accidents
Tel Aviv — April 17th, 2023 — SafeGuard, a company that uses machine learning to predict worksite accidents in the construction industry, today announced an $8SafeGuard...
From Putting People First
New Reuters Institute Report on distrust in the news by disadvantaged communities
Why do disadvantaged communities distrust the news? And what can newsrooms do about it? These are the questions at the heart of a new report by the Reuters Institute...
From Putting People First
[Book] The Smartness Mandate
What exactly is “smartness,” and how and why has it come to be not only a desirable goal, but something that must be implemented everywhere?
From Geeking with Greg
The biggest threat to Google
Nico Grant at the New York Times writes that Google is furiously adding features to its web search, including personalized search and personalized information recommendations...
From insideHPC
QC Ware Launches Promethium for Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Materials Discovery
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 18, 2023 — QC Ware, a provider of chemistry simulation and machine learning solutions, today announced the release of Promethium, a modern...
From insideHPC
Torsten Hoefler Named First Winner of Jack Dongarra Early Career Award
HAMBURG, April 17, 2023 – Professor Torsten Hoefler of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, has been named the inaugural Jack Dongarra Early Career Award recipient. This award...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
From Schneier on Security