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Can an AI System Exhibit Commonsense Intelligence?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Can an AI System Exhibit Commonsense Intelligence?

 Irving Berger looks at this quest,  links to lots of work in the area,  below a quick intro, much more at the link. Can an AI System Exhibit Commonsense Intelligence...

Better LIDAR for Driving
From The Eponymous Pickle

Better LIDAR for Driving

Compact system could be better connected to smaller devices ...  like minidrones.Compact, Non-Mechanical 3D LiDAR System Could Make Autonomous Driving SaferOptica...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Novel Proofs of the Infinitude of Primes

Can they inform computational complexity theory? Bill Gasarch and Christian Elsholtz both like primes and jokes and graphs and ways of sharing baked goods. Bill...

New Members Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

New Members Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) just elected 106 new members and 18 international members. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions...

Japan Rolls Out 'Humble, Lovable' Delivery Robots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Japan Rolls Out 'Humble, Lovable' Delivery Robots

 Any videos out there of this to show them at a talk? Japan Rolls Out 'Humble, Lovable' Delivery RobotsFrance24, February 8, 2023Japanese robotics companies are...

On Pig Butchering Scams
From Schneier on Security

On Pig Butchering Scams

“Pig butchering” is the colorful name given to online cons that trick the victim into giving money to the scammer, thinking it is an investment opportunity. It’s...

Chatbot Predict!
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chatbot Predict!

 Oh Oh, will we start to get this kind of' 'prediction'?  Will it, or how much of it will be believed compared to other market pundits?  Lets get ahold of this....

A Hackers Mind Pubished
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Hackers Mind Pubished

 Just about to read, good direction, about to read     by Bruce SchneierA Hacker’s Mind         Is Now Published  by Bruce Schneier     Tuesday was the official...

Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI

Good, thoughtful piece ...Five Predictions for the Future of Learning in the Age of AI      by Anne Lee Skates  in A16ZAI, machine & deep learning  education  Education...

Taking on design thinking and business consulting
From Putting People First

Taking on design thinking and business consulting

Two articles in the last few days took on the world of consulting. Rebecca Ackermann in the MIT Technology Review wrote on how the shine of design thinking has...

The Dark History of Algorithms
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

The Dark History of Algorithms

Zin Derfoufi, a Computer Science student at Queen Mary, delves into some of the dark secrets of algorithms past. Algorithms are used throughout modern life forContinue...

Using an Assistant  Leads to more Buggy Code
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using an Assistant Leads to more Buggy Code

Perhaps unexpected, but does depend on deeper understanding of the use context involved. AI Help Leads to Buggier CodeBy Ryan Daws | December 21, 2022 | TechForge...

Duolingo and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Duolingo and AI

How Duolingo’s AI Learns What You Need to Learn500+IEEE Spectrum by Burr Settles / February 05, 2023It’s lunchtime when your phone pings you with a green owl who...

CS Students–Learn Your IDE
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CS Students–Learn Your IDE

Eugene Wallingford had a great post on WHAT WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SUCCEED AS A CS STUDENT? It’s got a lot of good advice and I recommend it to students in high school...

From Computational Complexity

When is a paper `Easily Available' ?

I was looking at the paper                                 PSPACE-Completeness of reversible deterministic systemsby Erik Demaine, Robert Hearn,  Dylan Hendrickson...

Science and Technology links (February 12 2023)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (February 12 2023)

Kenny finds that the returns due to education are declining. Rich countries are spending more on education, with comparatively weaker test results. It costs more...

Bard Underwhelms in Debut
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bard Underwhelms in Debut

Still lots of Work to do for Human level performance,  An Update for chatbots, expensive reaction.Google's Bard AI bot mistake wipes $100bn off shares   in the ...

Quantum Communications, Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Communications, Computing

From Quantum Computing to Quantum CommunicationsBy Michael A. CusumanoCommunications of the ACM, January 2023, Vol. 66 No. 1, Pages 24-27, 10.1145/3571450Quantum...

Robotizing the Living Room
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robotizing the Living Room

 Don't think I want this,  just notable. Rent it for some rearrangement?Warehouse Robots to Automate Your Living Room Kachaka’s warehouse-inspired mobile base can...

Malvertizing Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Malvertizing Search

Now reemerging,  imagine Google is very concerned.   Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download softwareOver the past month, Google has been...
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