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What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?

Good piece by Stephen Wolfram,  below the intro: What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?It’s Just Adding One Word at a TimeThat ChatGPT can automatically...

GlobalConnect Claims First with Submerged Cooling Colo in Europe
From insideHPC

GlobalConnect Claims First with Submerged Cooling Colo in Europe

Copenhagen — Feb. 16, 2023 — Digital infrastructure provider GlobalConnect Groupsaid today it is the first colocation provider in Europe to offer submerged cooling...

From Computational Complexity

Blurry JPEG or Frozen Concentrate

Ted Chiang in a recent New Yorker article likened ChatGPT to a blurry JPEG, i.e. a "lossy compression" of the web. It's a good article but the analogy isn'tKolmogorov...

The New AI  Planned to be Delivered by Microsoft
From The Eponymous Pickle

The New AI Planned to be Delivered by Microsoft

Impressive look at the direction to enhance all search with an intelligent Co-Pilot.AI  Powered Bing and MS Edge  Intro talk:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOeRWRJ16yY...

Massive fake crowds for disinformation campaigns
From Geeking with Greg

Massive fake crowds for disinformation campaigns

The Guardian has a good article, "'Aims': the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles", on fake crowds faking popularity and consensus to...

Make Siri Elite with OpenAI and ChatGPT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Make Siri Elite with OpenAI and ChatGPT

Brought to my attention, installing.  A means to use OpenAI directly from Siri, creating a 'Siri Elite' as a new assistant tool accessible with a Siri shortcut....

ChatGPT Is Ingesting Corporate Secrets
From Schneier on Security

ChatGPT Is Ingesting Corporate Secrets

Interesting: According to internal Slack messages that were leaked to Insider, an Amazon lawyer told workers that they had “already seen instances” of text generated...

NSF Partners with Ericsson, IBM, Intel, and Samsung to Support Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Partners with Ericsson, IBM, Intel, and Samsung to Support Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing

Late last month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a partnership with Ericsson, IBM, Intel, and Samsung to support the manufacturing and design of...

Very Tiny Cameras, Consider the Possibilities
From The Eponymous Pickle

Very Tiny Cameras, Consider the Possibilities

I like the realm of the very small,  for sensors and the ability to combine multiple tiny views.  Healthcare would for example could be an interesting application...

Resumes, Jobs,  Interviews and ChatGPT Challenges HR
From The Eponymous Pickle

Resumes, Jobs, Interviews and ChatGPT Challenges HR

 Ethical?  But does show advanced thinking.  Are responses reasonable?  Some early stats.Most Job Seekers Who Used ChatGPT to Write Their Resume Get an Interview...

Cosmic Rays Can 3D-Scan Nuclear Reactors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cosmic Rays Can 3D-Scan Nuclear Reactors

 Scanning reactors in 3D.  For analysis, maintenance.Cosmic Rays Can 3D-Scan Nuclear ReactorsIEEE Spectrum.Charles Q. Choi, February 8, 2023Researchers at the French...

Exascale Supercomputer Can Do a Quintillion Calculations a Second
From The Eponymous Pickle

Exascale Supercomputer Can Do a Quintillion Calculations a Second

 Supercomputer advances as wellExascale Supercomputer Can Do a Quintillion Calculations a SecondScientific American, Sarah Scoles, , ORNL, February 9, 2023Oak Ridge...

Camera the Size of a Grain of Salt
From Schneier on Security

Camera the Size of a Grain of Salt

Cameras are getting smaller and smaller, changing the scale and scope of surveillance.

3D-Printed Models Help Preserve Endangered Languages
From The Eponymous Pickle

3D-Printed Models Help Preserve Endangered Languages

Quite surprising work.  Can you 3D Print Languages to preserve them?  Researchers' 3D-Printed Models Help Preserve Endangered LanguagesInteresting Engineering,Researchers...

Quantum Brilliance Raises $18M to Advance Miniaturized Quantum Computers
From insideHPC

Quantum Brilliance Raises $18M to Advance Miniaturized Quantum Computers

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, February 15, 2023 – Quantum Brilliance, a developer of room-temperature miniaturised quantum computing products, today announced an $18 million...

People Are Bad At Giving Instructions
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

People Are Bad At Giving Instructions

One of the things that make me sure that programming will be around for awhile even with better and better artificial intelligences is that people are bad at giving...

Quantinuum Names HPC Industry Veteran Raj Hazra CEO
From insideHPC

Quantinuum Names HPC Industry Veteran Raj Hazra CEO

Tokyo, Cambridge, UK, Broomfield, CO — Feb. 14, 2023 — Quantum computing company Quantinuum today announced that HPC industry veteran Rajeeb (Raj) Hazra has been...

Croatian Restaurant Offers One-Pot Menu Cooked by Robotic Chef
From The Eponymous Pickle

Croatian Restaurant Offers One-Pot Menu Cooked by Robotic Chef

A bit of a cook myself, with interest in the dynamics of  'one-pot' cooking. (or minimal pot)  So appreciate what it takes and the results.  Robotics will become...

Generative AI Platform Writer Launches 3 Enterprise Models
From insideHPC

Generative AI Platform Writer Launches 3 Enterprise Models

San Francisco – February 13, 2023 – Writer, a generative AI platform built for business, today launches three new proprietary large language models (LLMs) designed...

NVIDIA Event to Push Avatars
From The Eponymous Pickle

NVIDIA Event to Push Avatars

Making a point of 'uncanny valley', aspect of Avatars.  Not sure that would be an issue at a conference, but for typical human interactions, perhaps.  Has thisDeveloper...
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