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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
D-Wave Announces New Customer Engagements, Cross-Platform Product Enhancements at Qubits 2023
January 17, 2023 — BURNABY, British Columbia & PALO ALTO — D-Wave Quantum Inc. , a quantum computing systems, software, and services company, today announced new...
From insideHPC
Dell Announces PowerEdge Servers with Intel 4th Gen Xeon Chips
Jan. 17, 2023 — Dell Technologies has announced 13 new rack, tower and multi-node PowerEdge servers with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors announced last week...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Error Control Begins to Shape Quantum Archtectures
Considerable piece. I understood that error control was important, how this fits in is less clear. Reliability can be seen as key. Diving more deeply. Error...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Planning for algae as Food
World Population and how to feed it ... Green eats the futureFeeding the worldWithout algae there would be no life on earth. Every second molecule of oxygen that...
From Schneier on Security
The FBI Identified a Tor User
No details, though: According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related...
From insideHPC
Atos Win UK Quantum Simulator Contract
No sooner did the news break that Atos had accepted a £24 million settlement with the UK government over a major supercomputing contract award (HPE’s weather supercomputer...
From Computational Complexity
ChatGPT tried to write an obit for Martin Davis. What it got right, wrong, and what to make of it.
When Martin Davis passed away Lance emailed me what he got from using ChatGPT to do an obit. Here it is and I also note what it got wrong.----------------------...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Game Developers and Cancer Researchers Team Up
Even seems like a natural collaboration these days. Had been wondering how much of that is now common between game players/designers and science in general....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Writes about Their AI Focus
Thoughtful talks about making things smart ....Why we focus on AI (and to what end)Jan 16, 2023, James Manyika, SVP, Technology & Society, In the Google Research...
From Schneier on Security
Hacked Cellebrite and MSAB Software Released
Cellebrite is an cyberweapons arms manufacturer that sells smartphone forensic software to governments around the world. MSAB is a Swedish company that does the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Year 2022: Scientific progress
The year 2022 is over. As with every year that passes, we have made some scientific progress. I found the following achievements interesting: Diluting the blood...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and technology links (January 15 2022)
For under $600, one can buy a 20-terabyte disk on Amazon. Unless you work professionally in multimedia, it is more storage than you need. However, having much storage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Plans to Add ChatGPT to Bing
Can ChatGPT be successfully be integrated into services like search engines? Implications? Will public uses be useful, dangerous? Microsoft Plans to Add ChatGPT...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Generated Text, Threat Models,
Part of a current survey of mine. intro below, more at the linkMachine Generated Text: A Comprehensive Survey of Threat Models and Detection MethodsBy EVAN CROTHERS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Priced VR Headsets
Emerging, evolving gear comesfrom game world, will this be seen seriously in industry? VR headset prices high as Apple bides its timePublished 14 hours ago in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knotted Quantum Money
Intriguing application here.Quantum money that uses the mathematics of knots could be unforgeableA monetary system built using a combination of quantum computers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA Goes Virtual Assistants
To me an unexpected direction. Apparently a prototype early access effort for partners. Develop Intelligent Virtual Assistants with NVIDIA Omniverse ACE Early...
From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenAI Blooms
Worth a look, still have my doubts except for specialized applications. We did much in this area I would like to re-try with ChatGBT, Worth the experiment....
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at Capricon, a four-day science fiction convention in Chicago. My talk is on “The...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)