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Despite all pausing and hand wringing, AI enabled Generation Ad production goes on. All resonsibe?
WPP Partners With NVIDIA to Build Generative AI-Enabled Content Engine for Digital Advertising
Groundbreaking Engine Built on…
Nvidia taps into Israeli innovation to build generative AI cloud supercomputer
Chip giant says Israel-1 supercomputer valued at several hundred million dollars is a ‘major investment’ that will boost next-generation AI workloads…
Brought to my attention. in the-encoder.com
OpenLLaMA is a fully open-source LLM, now ready for business
OpenLLaMA is an open-source reproduction of Meta’s LLaMA language model and can be used commercially.
Since the unveiling…
Remarkable ...
Sound Vibrations Can Encode, Process Data Like Quantum Computers
By New Scientist, May 25, 2023
University of Arizona researchers demonstrated that trapping sound in a simple mechanical device can imitate certainThe…
ChatGPT: Can China overtake the US in the AI marathon?
By Derek Cai & Annabelle Liang in BBC News
Artificial intelligence has emerged as enough of a concern that it made it onto what was already a packed agenda at the G7 summit…
Light-Field Sensor for 3D Scene Construction with Unprecedented Angular Resolution
By NUS News (Singapore), May 18, 2023
A large scale angle-sensing structure comprising nanocrystal phospors, a key component of the sensor, illuminated…
A Boost for the Quantum Internet
Universitat Innsbruck (Austria)
May 23, 2023
Researchers at Austria's University of Innsbruck transmitted quantum information with a quantum repeater node operating at telecommunication networks'…
Careers do not have to be decided on from day one. You can end up in a good place in a roundabout way. That is what happened to Sadiqah Musa, and now she is helping make the paths easier for others to follow, particularly for…
Seems interesting, Agree there is mush understanding. More at the link. Will read.
Demystifying AI..
Where to Draw the Line Between Myth and Reality
First things first: Why exactly has AI become such a nebulous term…Hype and fashion cycles drive education change. Let's protect the good stuff.
Scorpion is a TV show that ran from 2014 to 2018. It involves a group of brilliant (to say the least) but socially awkward (to say the least) people who help the government battle threats and/or solve crimes.
The episode Risky…
Useful, see link to full article linked to below there are 24 processors!
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Los Alamos National Laboratory compared leading quantum computers using the Quantum Computing UserThe…
As a big advertiser, something we thought about.
Meta Research
How generational differences affect consumer attitudes towards ads
By: Melanie Beer Zeldin
Our research study, in collaboration with CrowdDNA, aims to understand people's…
Demolishing the Journalism Industry Using AI?
By Futurism, May 12, 2023
Google's new search interface, built on a model trained on unpaid-for human output, will swallow even more human-made content and spit it back out to information…
We worked with IBM for years, Saw the kind of methods they were pressing that connected their work with Watson and game playing, but never got the impression that that could provide the kind of general management of general…
Concepts of ethics can be integrated into lessons that reflect contemporary concerns and involve student knowledge of modern technology.
Northrup Grumman advances:
SpaceLogistics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, provides cooperative space logistics and in-orbit satellite servicing to geosynchronous satellite operators using…
Neuralink: Why is Elon Musk’s brain chip firm in the news?
By Shiona McCallum Technology reporter in the BBC
Elon Musk's brain chip firm Neuralink has said that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its firstThe…
Are ChatGPT's Good at 'Not' in QuantaMagazine
Max G. Levy
Contributing Writer, May 12, 2023
Nora Kassner suspected her computer wasn’t as smart as people thought. In October 2018, Google released a language model algorithm called…
Europe's First 3D-Printed School Takes Shape in Ukraine
Radio Free Europe/Radio Free Liberty (Czech Republic)
May 25, 2023
Humanitarian group Team4UA organized the building of Europe's first three-dimensionally (3D)-printed primary…
Comments here a little late, but good points.
Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already And stop confusing performance with competence, says Rodney Brooks By Glenn Zorpette in Spectrum IEEE
Rapid and pivotal advances in technology…
In 2021 the Canadian government announced that Indigenous people would be allowed to use their ancestral family names on government-issued identity documents. For the first time they could use the names that are part of their…
Atlas Obscura has a five-part online course on cephalopods, taught by squid biologist Dr. Sarah McAnulty.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Readhere…
A hash function is a function that maps a value (such as a string) to an integer value. Typically, we want random-looking values. A Bloom filter is a standard data structure in computer science to approximate a set. Basically…
Science fiction films are full of humanoid robots acting as servants, workers, friends or colleagues. The first were created during the Islamic Golden Age, a thousand years ago.
Had not followed this before, will continue ...
Neuralink says it has the FDA’s OK to start clinical trials
Company isn't enrolling patients yet, but it has cleared a major hurdle.
- John Timmer in Arstechnica
In December 2022…
Interesting example of Security problem.
Ethereum Closes Security Hole with Energy-Saving Update
By New Scientist,May 26, 2023.
Running an Ethereum node allows a user to create transactions and broadcast them across the networkAn…
In application design, affordances are cues that help users discover and explore how to interact with the application. Typical affordances for search applications include buttons and links. Users do not need to be experts toThe…
More amazement via AI.
AI Catalyzes Gene Activation Research, Uncovers Rare DNA Sequences
By UC San Diego Today, May 25, 2023
Investigating DNA sequences.
Using machine learning, the researchers discovered the downstream core promoter…
Good piece in Schneier:
Expeditionary Cyberspace Operations
Cyberspace operations now officially has a physical dimension, meaning that the United States has official military doctrine about cyberattacks that also involve…Create a Web Account
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