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Shall we pause, will every one? For 6 months. Dangerous? What difference will it make?
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/TECH
Elon Musk and top AI researchers call for pause on ‘giant AI experiments’
An open letter says the currentBy…
A transparent collection of interacting digital Twins?
HUMANS AND TECHNOLOGY
The emergent industrial metaverse
An interface between the real and digital worlds will transform how we work, live, and interact.
By MIT Technology Review…
Stockholm – 28 March 2023 – atNorth, a pan-Nordic colocation, HPC and AI service provider, has announced that financial institution BNP Paribas continues to move portions of its workloads to the Nordic region. The migration of…
Doubt it, I still get an overload of tweets, mostly tech and not politics Get the impression that many still live there.
Natasha [email protected] / 8:20 AM EDT•March 28, 2023
It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid…
A well known kind of security breach worked on a Tesla. Big finding reward. Expected to be remotely fixed.
Pwn2Own Hackers Breach a Tesla Twice, By PC Magazine, March 29, 2023
Tesla’s security response team validated the results…
Interesting point, but do not fully understand. Posting to be revisited.
By Gregory Goth, Commissioned by CACM Staff, March 29, 2023
Nearly two years since the publication of the paper in Nature,The…
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – MARCH 28, 2023 – Enfabrica Corporation, a startup building networking silicon and software for AI and accelerated computing workloads, today emerged from stealth mode to announce a class of chips called…
DENVER – March 29, 2023 — Cologix, a network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data center company, today announced that IBM Cloud Direct Link is now available on Cologix Access Marketplace, the company’s Software-Defined…
Zoom IQ Does some Interesting Tool things. Note taking interesting.
Zoom IQ Assistant Adds Generative AI Tools Fueled by Multiple LLMs
Eric Hal Schwartz on March 27, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Zoom has unveiled a new suite of generative…
Jenny Blessing and Ross Anderson have evaluated the security of systems designed to allow the various Internet messaging platforms to interoperate with each other:
The Digital Markets Act ruled that users on different platforms…
It would seem a natural thing for Disney to experiment seriously with Metaverses.
Disney reportedly scraps its metaverse unit
Disney appears to be the latest company to pull back the metaverse, as CEO Bob Iger reverses more decisions…
In few other areas of the global economy are the rounds of creative destruction more rapid and more intense than the HPC-AI sector. We see this today with the generative AI sensation: OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November has…
March 28, 2023 — The White House today announced that Darleane C. Hoffman and Gabor A. Somorjai are the recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. Darleane C. Hoffman, Ph.D. is a nuclear chemist known for the study of…
This week, the National Science Foundation (NSF), along with five other U.S. government agencies, launched the Building the Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN). This $20 million initiative, will provide funding opportunities…
Below possibly methods being used for Masters demonstration. I had previously looked at Chef Watson.
From OpenAI GPT:
IBM Watson Studio AutoAI is a cloud-based tool that helps users to automatically build, train and deploy machine…
Should be an interesting demonstration by IBM. Hint at some predictive analytics? Will watch and report on this.
IBM…
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Driving the development and leveraging the use of supercomputing technologies and systems is a critical strategic advantage for geopolitical players. The U.S. Council on Competitiveness, which champions…
From the BBC, indicator of a bubble?
NFT: Plans for Royal Mint produced token dropped
Plans for the NFT for Britain were launched when Rishi Sunak was chancellor
By Helen Catt & Sam Francis
Plans for a government backed non-fungible…
Satellite Internet Dominance
ACM NEWS
Amazon To Go Head to Head with SpaceX in a Battle for Satellite Internet Dominance
By MIT Technology Review, March 27, 2023
The rocket's inaugural flight will carry two prototype Project Kuiper…
Wharton AI Powered Risk Radar" From Bard
Wharton researchers have developed a new AI-powered tool to help businesses identify and mitigate risks. The tool, called "Risk Radar," uses machine learning to analyze data from a variety…
Both Google’s Pixel’s Markup Tool and the Windows Snipping Tool have vulnerabilities that allow people to partially recover content that was edited out of images.
When we watch a film, it's not just the pictures that make the experience, it's the soundtrack too. The music and sound effects play a big part in setting the mood of a film. They matter. If you are to get the sinking feeling…
Google Translate and DeepL Translate still have trouble recognizing the second person singular and plural and the polite form, even in very simple sentences.
Researchers from Riverlane quantum engineering company and sustainable technology company Johnson Matthey announced they have developed quantum algorithms to simulate the catalysts used in industrial chemical processes. The companies…
Optimizing compilers seek try to push as much of the computation as possible at compile time. In modern C++, you can declare a function as ‘constexpr’, meaning that you state explicitly that the function may be executed at compile…
Saw several example that indicated they were in test. Minimal crew still might add safety at low cost for a large ship?
Crewless Container Ships Appear on the Horizon
By BBC News, March 27, 2023
Eventually will navigate aided…
Schneier reports on this, as usual his commenters provide thoughtful additional insight. Worh looking at.
OpenAI has disabled ChatGPT’s privacy history, almost certainly because they had a security flaw…
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced that company co-founder Gordon Moore passed away on Friday, March 24 at the age of 94. The foundation reported he died peacefully…
New, lucrative and very interesting space
Artificial Intelligence for Materials Discovery
By Don Monroe
Communications of the ACM, April 2023, Vol. 66 No. 4, Pages 9-11 10.1145/3583080
3D chemical compounds floating in space,The…Create a Web Account
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