The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
Deadline: August 15, 2023 The ACM-W Communications Committee is seeking (self-)nominations for a Co-Chair. Initial terms for the positions will begin September 1, 2023, and extend until September 30, 2025. You will join a dynamic…
Women in highly religious relationships report the highest levels of relationship quality. US politics is largely divided into two parties (Republicans and Democrats). People who are affiliated with the Republicans have manyContinue…
Would expand potential capabilities for AR ... makes me broaden they potential usefulness.
Speech AI Spotlight: Visualizing Spoken Language and Sounds on AR Glasses
Jun 23, 2023
By Sirisha Rella
Audio can include a wide range of…Microsoft Looks to Speed Up Materials Science Research with Quantum-Compatible System
Nextgov
Alexandra Kelley, June 21, 2023
Microsoft's newly announced Azure Quantum Elements system aims to support and emulate properties of future…
Tribe AI’s CEO on Why Generative AI is seeing Rapid uptake by Enterprises than Web3 and Crypto
Carl Franzen@carlfranzen in Venturebeat
June 16, 2023 10:40 AM
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VB: We are at a really interesting point right now with new…Previously mentioned, more data ... A space we did much in given our products ...
How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed
After decades of frustration, researchers have determined how an airborne scent moleculeFOR…Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos And Jack Ma Fund $200 Million Round For KoBold Metals A Company Using AI To Improve Mining Of Rare Earth Metals Crucial For EVs
mybabyjazzy@gmail.com
Fri, June 23, 2023 at 11:06 AM
In this article:
Breakthrough…AI Alarmism
There Is Little Evidence for Today's AI Alarmism
By Defending Digital, June 15, 2023
Illustration of a group of robots, one has bright glowing eyes made to convey malicious intent.
Today's alarmists have yet to provide…William Friedman was famous as one who broke codes during both world wars. I knew about him from articles such as this. But wait His wife Elizebeth Smith Friedman is the star of a PBS TV special. Together they were the first…
I have been hearing many arguments from different people regarding catastrophic AI risks. I wanted to clarify these arguments, first for myself, because I would…
L’article FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks est apparu en premier sur…Generative AI Could Add $4.4 Trillion a Year to the Global Economy, McKinsey Finds
Vanessa Bates Ramirez in SigularityHub
There’s been concern about artificial intelligence taking away jobs for years, and with the recent boomLast…At an engineering conference I talked about digital twins of Jet Engines useful as well for flesh and blood consumers. Intrigued.
Brought to my attention in Gartner, see much more at the ilnk
A Digital Twin of the Customer Could…In Jan 2023 I went to the Joint Math Meeting of the AMS and the MAA and took notes on things to look up later. In one of the talks they discussed a problem and indicated that the answer was known, but did not give a reference…
'Help me' gives google an edge.
AI-powered ‘Help me organize’ starts rolling out in Google Sheets
Avatar for Abner Li Jun 22 2023 - 11:22 am PT
The latest Duet AI features entering Workspace Labs is “Help me organize” for Google…Why is There a Data Trust Deficit?
ACM
June 21, 2023
ACM’s TechBrief on “The Data Trust Deficit“ https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3605240 examines why better insight into how data-driven systems sow distrust is necessary…Giggling Squid is a Thai chain in the UK.
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This June I was very pleased to meet the ACM-W Executive Committee at the ACM Headquarters in New York. Our committee is made up of representatives from all ACM-W regions around the world with industry and academia working hand…
The edge is growing fast. Deloitte predicts that the enterprise market for edge computing will see 22 percent growth in 2023, in comparison to 4 percent in spending on enterprise networking equipment and 6 percent on overall…
Once people get used to using particular chat framework, and comfortable with it use, they can be ready for any kind of training. See my previous post on this where Bing makes the case.
Harvard's New Computer Science Teacher…I happened on this while exploring the Bing Chat GPT system from Microsoft. I admit I have had some less than useful interactions with Microsoft. But here I was pleasantly surprised. ...
I got the message from Bing without…But how does it taste?
Lab-Grown Chicken Is Now Legal for Sale in the US
Vanessa Bates Ramirez i SingularityHub
The world’s first lab-grown burger was completed in 2013 after five years of research and development and with a price…Meta Making LLaMA commercially available, despite lawmaker inquiries
Meta reportedly making LLaMA commercially available, despite lawmaker inquiries
Sharon Goldman, @sharongoldman, June 16, 2023
Join top executives in San Francisco…I get UPS phishing spam on my phone all the time. I never click on it, because it’s so obviously spam. Turns out that hackers have been harvesting actual UPS delivery data from a Canadian tracking tool for its phishing SMSs.
A Wearable Robotic Assistant That's All Over You
IEEE Spectrum
Mat Sadowski, June 19, 2023
The Calico assistive robot developed by researchers at the University of Maryland can be worn on the user's clothes, where it runs along…Welcome to White Castle. Would You Like Human Interaction with That?
The Wall Street Journal
Heather Haddon, June 13, 2023
Fast-food chains like White Castle are deploying artificial intelligence-enabled chatbots in drive-throughs…Amazon steps in for generative AI
Amazon Invests $100M in AWS Generative AI Innovation Center
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ in Voicebot.ai on June 22, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Amazon Web Services is pouring $100 million into a new generative AI program…Good thoughts, an intro:
Unlocking AI's Potential: Embracing Collaboration for Rapid Innovation
AI collaboration across corporate boundaries can greatly accelerate innovations in data science, AI model development, and applying…Much Agree and if you can simulate from the stories, even better.
Stories Are Key To Successful Innovation
Paul Miller, VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester
JUN 22 2023
You and the leadership team have developed an innovation strategy…Amazon Web Services today announced the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, in which the company is investing $100 million to help customers build genAI solutions. Customers will work with generative AI strategists, data scientists…
COLLEGE PARK, MD – June 22, 2023 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced a partnership with Switzerland-based QuantumBasel to jointly establish a European quantum data center. The companies said the transaction…