Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2023
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: A Look Back at ISC 2023 with a Look Ahead to the Uncertain Future of Leadership-Class Supercomputing
In this Lenovo-sponsored episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin and Doug discuss the recent annual ISC 2023 HPC confab in Hamburg, a conference that this year showed growth in attendees and number of exhibitors, if not a return to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Chatbots Lose Money Every Time You Use Them. That's a Problem.
Fascinating aspect. Thinking impact.
AI Chatbots Lose Money Every Time You Use Them. That's a Problem.
By The Washington Post, June 5, 2023
ChatGPT running on a smartphone.
The tech giants staking their future on AI rarely discuss…From BLOG@CACM
ChatGPT is Not a Technological Singularity
It will take many years before generative artificial intelligence has a measurable effect on the economy as a whole.
From insideHPC
Verne Global Receives $100M Loan from Digital 9
According to a news report from Alliance News, Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC on Monday said it signed a USD$100 million green loan debt facility for Verne Global Iceland, the colo data center services provider, with a fixed-term…
From BLOG@CACM
What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?
The answers from the AI-powered Microsoft Bing are often useless.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton: On the Rise of AI
Podcast
Wharton Ripple Effect
Rise of AI: How Do We Coexist With Algorithms?
THIS EPISODE Professor Kartik Hosanagar discusses how AI is impacting the world as we know it and how we can keep up.
Knowledge at Wharton is the free…From The Eponymous Pickle
Training Machines for Uncertain Real-World Simulations
Training Machines for Uncertain Real-World Situations
MIT News
Adam Zewe, May 31, 2023
An algorithm developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Technion—Israel Institute…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sweden is developing its own big language model
More Language models.
Sweden is developing its own big language model
Artificial Intelligence Sweden is leading an initiative to build a large language model not only for Swedish, but for all the major languages in the NordicBy…From Schneier on Security
The Software-Defined Car
Developers are starting to talk about the software-defined car.
For decades, features have accumulated like cruft in new vehicles: a box here to control the antilock brakes, a module there to run the cruise control radar, and…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The gender shades audit
Face recognition technology is used widely, such as at passport controls and by police forces. What if it isn't as good at recognising faces as it has been claimed to be? Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru tested three different…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing Using Chatbit Bing to Answer Questions
ChatGPT Using Bing to Answer Questions
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ on May 23, 2023 at 1:00 pm
ChatGPT will start sourcing answers using Bing, Microsoft announced at its Build conference. OpenAI’s explosively popular generative AI chatbot…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computer Tackles Airport Problem
Classic Problem.
Quantum Computer Tackles Airport Problem
By Popular Science
May 11, 2023
Is there an optimal way to assign flights to gates?
An international team of researchers is developing and testing algorithms for problems involving…From Computational Complexity
Quantifiers: To Parenthesize or not to Parenthesize? Matrix of Formula: To Bracket or not to Bracket?
For the book
Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Bounds
by Demaine-Gasarch-Hajiaghayi
(See here for a link to a first draft.)
we had to make some choices about which notation to use. One of the leastWhen…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Playing the weighting game
How do search engines find the best web pages. It is like a giant talent contest where you want the best web pages to win. Karen Spärck Jones worked out how best to do it and her algorithm is the basis of most search algorithms…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google releases Bard to the world – but leaves the EU behind
Example of how Country/region regulation can stall uses, increase training, mauntenance needs.
Google releases Bard to the world – but leaves the EU behind in Nextweb
The bloc's frosty reception of generative AI could be to…From The Eponymous Pickle
Race to Make AI Smaller, Smarter
The Race to Make AI Smaller, Smarter
The New York Times
Oliver Whang, May 30, 2023
The BabyLM Challenge, organized by computer scientists at institutions including Johns Hopkins University and Switzerland's ETH Zurich, is aimed…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Can Rewrite Code
Recently have heard some very good coders say, no can't happen professionally anytime soon. True?
AI Rewrites Coding By Samuel Greengard
Communications of the ACM, April 2023, Vol. 66 No. 4, Pages 12-14 10.1145/3583083
Computer…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Collecting mini-beasts and pocket monsters
Satoshi Tajiri created one of the biggest money-making media franchises of all time. It all started with his love of nature and, in particular, minibeasts. It also eventually took gamers back into the fresh air.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
“Tlahcuilo”, a visual composer
A main goal of computational creativity research is to help us better understand how this essential human characteristic, creativity, works. By building computer models of the processes we think are behind creativity, we can…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technogy links (June 3 2023)
There are fewer serial killers these days. Some suggests it is due to better forensic techniques: we catch the killers faster and more efficiently. Between the beginnings of the Web (1996) and today, the household Internet connection…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Topping the Hat
An “einstein” that doesn’t need flipping Siobhan Roberts is a Canadian science journalist, biographer, and historian of mathematics. She has an article that appeared in print in yesterday’s New York Times. It is on a second breakthrough…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google: Search General Experience (SGE)
Google Labs writes (Click through for detail), had been brought to to my attention)
3 new ways generative AI can help you search
This week, we began opening up access to Search Labs, a new program to test out early experiments…From The Eponymous Pickle
Making of a Mona Lisa Hologram (With pictures)
The Making of a Mona Lisa Hologram (With pictures)
By AIP Publishing, June 2, 2023
While the Mona Lisa hologram is two-dimensional, the technique can be extended to create three-dimensional images as well.
An international team…From The Eponymous Pickle
Priomise of Holographic Displays
ACM NEWS
Talked these in terms of advertising
The Promise of Holographic Displays
By Sandrine Ceurstemont
Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 1, 2023
Unlike today's two-dimensional computer screens, holographic displays could soon present…From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating high-yielding Hybrid Crops that can be Propagated indefinitely
Unmixed Blessing?
Researchers are Closing in on the long-sought goal of creating high-yielding hybrid crops that can be Propagated Indefinitely
18 MAY 2023 BYERIK STOKSTAD
Science, Vol 380, Issue 6646.
In early summer, unusualBut…From The Eponymous Pickle
Fruit Picking Robotics
Fruit-Picking Robot Eve Ready to Harvest Apples Commercially, as Shortage of Workers Persists
By ABC News (Australia), May 25, 2023
Eve, the fruit-picking robot.
Australian startup Ripe Robotics spent four years developing itsRipe…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Follow those ants
Ant colonies are really good at adapting to changing situations: far better than humans. Sameena Shah wondered if Artificial Intelligence agents might do better by learning their intelligent behaviour from ants rather than us…
From BLOG@CACM
AI Does Not Help Programmers
Getting past the"Wow" effect.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Chromolithographs
Beautiful illustrations.
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 insideHPC
Report: CoreWeave Wins Miscrosoft Deal for GPU Cloud Services Worth Billions
Suddenly, GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is one of the hot tech companies of the week and likely longer. No sooner did the Roseland, NY, startup announce on Wednesday it had secured $200 million in a series B venture round extension…