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June 2023


From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Apply to be the next ACM-W Communications Co-Chair

Apply to be the next ACM-W Communications Co-Chair

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…


From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (June 25 2023)

Science and Technology links (June 25 2023)

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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Speech AI Spotlight

Speech AI Spotlight

 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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Looks to Speed Up Materials Science Research with Quantum-Compatible System

Microsoft Looks to Speed Up Materials Science Research with Quantum-Compatible System

 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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Why the Big Uptake on Use of AI in the Enterprise?

Why the Big Uptake on Use of AI in the Enterprise?

 

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

(Excerpt) 

VB: We are at a really interesting point right now with new…


From The Eponymous Pickle

How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed

How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed

 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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos And Jack Ma Fund $200 Million Round For KoBold Metals

Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos And Jack Ma Fund $200 Million Round For KoBold Metals

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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

There Is Little Evidence for Today's AI Alarmism

There Is Little Evidence for Today's AI Alarmism

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…


From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

A Hidden Heroine

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…


From Yoshua Bengio

FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks

FAQ on Catastrophic AI Risks

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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Generative AI Could Add $4.4 Trillion a Year to the Global Economy, McKinsey Finds

Generative AI Could Add $4.4 Trillion a Year to the Global Economy, McKinsey Finds

 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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Is the Digital Twin of the Customer Emergent?

Is the Digital Twin of the Customer Emergent?

 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…


From Computational Complexity

Can you put n pennies on an n x n chessboard so that all of the distances are distinct/how to look that up?

 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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Help me Organize in Google Sheets

Help me Organize in Google Sheets

'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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Why is There a Data Trust Deficit?

Why is There a Data Trust Deficit?

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…


From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Giggling Squid

Friday Squid Blogging: Giggling Squid

Giggling Squid is a Thai chain in the UK.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Read my blog posting guidelines here.


From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

A Summer Message from the ACM-W Chair

A Summer Message from the ACM-W Chair

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…


From insideHPC

Why HPC Storage at the Edge Is a More Viable Option

Why HPC Storage at the Edge Is a More Viable Option

 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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Harvard's New Computer Science Teacher is a Chatbot

Harvard's New Computer Science Teacher is a Chatbot

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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning some things from Bing

Learning some things from Bing

 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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Lab-Grown Chicken Is Now Legal for Sale in the US

Lab-Grown Chicken Is Now Legal for Sale in the US

 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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Meta making LLaMA commercially available, despite lawmaker inquiries

Meta making LLaMA commercially available, despite lawmaker inquiries

 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…


From Schneier on Security

UPS Data Harvested for SMS Phishing Attacks

UPS Data Harvested for SMS Phishing Attacks

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.


From The Eponymous Pickle

A Wearable Robotic Assistant That's All Over You

A Wearable Robotic Assistant That's All Over You

 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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Welcome to White Castle. Would You Like Human Interaction with That?

Welcome to White Castle. Would You Like Human Interaction with That?

 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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Sets up AWS Generative Innovation Center

Amazon Sets up AWS Generative Innovation Center

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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Unlocking AI's Potential: Embracing Collaboration for Rapid Innovation

Unlocking AI's Potential: Embracing Collaboration for Rapid Innovation

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…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Stories are Key to Innovation

Stories are Key to Innovation

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…


From insideHPC

AWS Investing $100M in Generative AI Center

AWS Investing $100M in Generative AI Center

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…


From insideHPC

IonQ and QuantumBasel Partner on European Quantum Data Center

IonQ and QuantumBasel Partner on European Quantum Data Center

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…