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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 Computational Complexity
Does the Physics Nobel Prize Winner understand their own work (guest post)
David Marcus was a Math major a year ahead of my at SUNY Stonybrook (he graduated in 1979,I graduated in 1980). He then got a PhD from MIT in Math, and is a reader...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla Humanoid Robotics
Was asked to comment on this, on status, direction and effort involved. Pointers? Tesla is borrowing Autopilot team for Optimus humanoid robot project in Electric...
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Robotic Falcons to Deter Bird Strikes
Novel Application. might also deter birds eating key crops. Robotic Falcon Designed to Help Prevent Bird Strikes, By CNN, October 28, 2022Collisions between birds...
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Whats Your Pacebo?
Good Thoughts. What's Your Placebo? (links here) By Ryan Bockmon, Stephen CooperCommunications of the ACM, October 2022, Vol. 65 No. 10, Pages 31-33 10.1145/3528085...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI in Your Ears, Enhancing Speech with Neural 'Clearbuds'
New to me and interesting, out of ACMAI In Your Ears By R. Colin JohnsonCommissioned by CACM Staff, August 25, 2022"ClearBuds" is the code-name of the first "end...
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McKinsey Blueprints the Metaverse
A how and why is presented. Your blueprint to building in the metaverse in McKinseyOctober 29, 2022 Is the metaverse is coming for all of us? COVID-19 ushered...
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Microsoft: Hackers are Using Open Source Software, Fake Jobs in Phishing Attacks
Not very new, except in the details. seen this before. ACM NEWSMicrosoft: Hackers are Using Open Source Software, Fake Jobs in Phishing AttacksBy ZDNetSeptember...
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Open-Source Fleet Management Tools for Autonomous Mobile Robots
Are I am working in, soon? At ROSCon 2022, NVIDIA announced the newest Isaac ROS software release, Developer Preview (DP) 2. This release includes new cloud– and...
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Collaborative Creativity in AI
Discovered of late. Excerpt of article below. Some key issues outlined.Collaborative creativity in AIIn Nature Machine Intelligence volume 4, page 733 (2022)...
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AI Model Transferability in Healthcare
Very good look at this issue, considering potential application. AI Model Transferability in Healthcare: A Sociotechnical PerspectiveBy Nature Machine Intelligence...
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Imaginable
Now reading game designers Jane McGonigal's just published: " Imaginable: How to see the Future Coming and feel ready for anything - even things that seem impossible...
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3D Quantum Accelerometer
Was unaware of such an application:First 3D quantum accelerometer could let ships navigate without GPSA device that measures acceleration very precisely usingPHYSICS...
From The Noisy Channel
Let’s Talk About Resume Screening
With apologies to Bruno, we don’t talk about resume screening. But we should.Resume screening is usually the first step in the hiring process for active candidates...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Intelligence
Musing on future directions. AI's true goal may no longer be intelligenceSome scholars of AI warn that the present technologies may never add up to "true" intelligence...
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Fairer Search Results
Ranking, Fairness. Fairer Ranking System Diversifies Search ResultsCornell ChroniclePatricia Waldron, September 19, 2022Cornell University researchers Yuta Saito...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Chinese Squid Fishing
China claims that it is “engaging in responsible squid fishing”: Chen Xinjun, dean of the College of Marine Sciences at Shanghai Ocean University, made the remarks...
From insideHPC
GRAID Technology and primeLine Solutions GmbH Form HPC Partnership in Germany
SANTA CLARA, Calif., October 20, 2022 – German custom HPC server maker primeLine Solutions GmbH announced it now incorporates SupremeRAID GPU accelerated RAID as...
From insideHPC
David Abramson to Deliver Nov. 10 Ken Kennedy Institute Lecture on Translational Research Computer Science
Oct. 28, 2022 — A Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture by David Abramson of the University of Queensland on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 4-6 p.m. Central Time at...
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Microsoft Admits its Patches Broke OneDrive
I did notice that OneDrive was acting oddly, have used it since my corporate days. When it was standard for us. Also it was using my personal pix backupIt...
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