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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 Schneier on Security
Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools
Microsoft announced that it caught Chinese, Russian, and Iranian hackers using its AI tools—presumably coding tools—to improve their hacking abilities. From their...
From insideHPC
Accelerated HPC for Energy Efficiency with AWS and NVIDIA
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Many industries are starting to run HPC in the cloud. Find out how GPU-accelerated compute, from AWS and NVIDIA, is helping organizations...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Measuring energy usage: regular code vs. SIMD code
Modern processor have fancy instructions that can do many operations at one using wide registers: SIMD instructions. Intel and AMD have 512-bit registers and associated...
From Schneier on Security
EU Court of Human Rights Rejects Encryption Backdoors
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that breaking end-to-end encryption by adding backdoors violates human rights: Seemingly most critically, the [Russian]...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Designing robots that care (plus links to related careers)
An article from Nicola Plant about ways of making social robots more sociable which links to a related EPSRC project about a tablet-based AI tool for people with...
From Computational Complexity
ChatGPT thinks Graph Isomorphism has real applications. Is it right?
Lance did a post on Babai's result on Graph Isomorphism (see here). I then did a post asking if Graph Isomorphism has real applications (see here). Lance proofread...
From insideHPC
Pawsey Adds NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform for R&D Simulations
SYDNEY—SCA2024—Feb. 19, 2024—NVIDIA today announced that Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre will add the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum platform accelerated...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
AI Debuggers?
A meme was posted (by Doug Peterson I believe) asking why if the computer knows there is a semi colon missing that the computer doesn’t add it? It’s a good question...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
New Methods Solve Old Problems
Really old ones, in this case Ben Cohen writes the “Science of Success” column for The Wall Street Journal. It is about what makes people, teams and ideas work...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Vegan Squid-Ink Pasta
It uses black beans for color and seaweed for flavor. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered...
From insideHPC
AI Governance Proposal: Control AI by Controlling Compute
To control compute – to squeeze or open the spigot of processing power – is to control AI. In doing so, AI can be steered toward beneficial results while avoiding...
From insideHPC
VIAVI Xgig Exerciser Approved for CXL 1.1 Compliance Testing
Chandler, Ariz., February 15, 2024 – VIAVI Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV), a provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions, today announced...
From insideHPC
NSF to Hold Feb. 21 Webinar on National AI Research Resource
Feb. 15, 2024 – The National Science Foundation will hold a webinar on Wednesday, Feb. 21 from 3-4 pm ET for researchers and educators to learn about the National...
From insideHPC
Lenovo and Anaconda Partner to Accelerate AI Development
February 15, 2024 – Today, Lenovo announced a partnership with Anaconda Inc., a provider of source code for artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science...
From insideHPC
Lambda Raises $320M to Build NVIDIA GPU Cloud for AI
SAN JOSE, Feb. 15, 2024 — Lambda, the GPU cloud company powered by NVIDIA GPUs, today announced it has raised a $320 million Series C led by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative...
From The Noisy Channel
Precision, Recall, and Desirability
Recent developments in AI have created opportunities across the search stack. But before building solutions, it is important to clearly identify the problems they...
From Computational Complexity
Focusing on the Outcomes
An academic field often organizes itself pulling ideas from its own field. For example, students on the economics faculty job search can signal at most two schools...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Reveals Eos Supercomputer: 4,600 H100 GPUs for 18 AI Exaflops
NVIDIA Thursday released a video that offers the first public look at Eos (pictured here), a monster 18.4 exaflops FP8 AI supercomputer powered by 576 DGX H100NVIDIA...
From Schneier on Security
On the Insecurity of Software Bloat
Good essay on software bloat and the insecurities it causes. The world ships too much code, most of it by third parties, sometimes unintended, most of it uninspected...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog