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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
Frontier Pushes Boundaries: 86% of Nodes Engaged on Reactor Simulation Runs
Details have trickled out of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) indicating progress in preparing Frontier, the exascale-class supercomputer ranked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting Limits to Vehicle Tech
Limits of autonomous vehicle tech?Carmakers Are Pushing Autonomous Tech. This Engineer Wants Limits. By The New York Times.February 16, 2023Systems like General...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walking-Flying Spidar
Complex but very interesting thing out of Tokyo, Can get you some ware fast and then walk the rest of the way. The arrival may be scary, but you then haveOh...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Data from Audiobooks?
Ultimately its all about training data. And the quality of that data. Of course a Google gets lots of language data, but its it the right quality and type? ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Priorities for Research in ChatGPT
ChatGPT: Five Priorities for Research (Opinion in CACM) By Nature, February 3, 2023A smartphone trying to connect to ChatGPT has message stating that it is too...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Israeli First Responders in Turkey
Emergency response combining rapid attention and needed data for complex care and communication. Israeli First Responders in Turkey Use Real-Time Tech for Remote...
From Schneier on Security
Defending against AI Lobbyists
When is it time to start worrying about artificial intelligence interfering in our democracy? Maybe when an AI writes a letter to The New York Times opposing the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Computing the UTF-8 size of a Latin 1 string quickly (AVX edition)
Computers represent strings using bytes. Most often, we use the Unicode standard to represent characters in bytes. The universal format to exchange strings online...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NITRD Publishes a Request for Information on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan
On behalf of Federal agencies and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Cyber Security and Information Assurance Interagency...
From insideHPC
Sylabs Releases SingularityCE 3.11 for HPC Workflows with OCI Compatibility
Reno, NV – February 16, 2022 – Sylabs, a provider of performance-intensive container technology, today announced the release of SingularityCE 3.11, which the company...
From insideHPC
Rolos Selects Virtuozzo for Scientific Research Cloud Platform
Seattle and Schaffhausen, Switzerland, February 14, 2023 — Cloud platform Virtuozzo has announced a partnership with Rolos by Constructor group (formerly knownRolos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Relevant Podcasts for CACM
Click through to list of podcasts and addresses Ears on AI and Data, By Karen EmslieCommissioned by CACM Staff, February 16, 2023According to DemandSage (https...
From Geeking with Greg
Huge numbers of fake accounts on Twitter
It seems like this should get more attention, "hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Twitter accounts set up by Russian propaganda and disinformation" that are "still...
From Geeking with Greg
Details on personalized learning at Duolingo
There's a new, great, long article on how Duolingo's personalized learning algorithms work, "How Duolingo's AI learns what you need to learn". An excerpt as a teaser...
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...
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...
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...
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle