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March 2023


From The Eponymous Pickle

Google's Bard Is Here (Waitlist)

Google's Bard Is Here  (Waitlist)

Yet another chatty AI,   examining.  From the Lamda Language model.

-  You can sign up to try Bard at bard.google.com. We'll begin rolling out access in the U.S. and U.K. today and expanding over time to more countries and languages…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Twins in Consumer Package Goods

Digital Twins in Consumer Package Goods

 In the process of looking for in process applications 

Digital Twins & CPG Manufacturing Transformation

By Justin Honaman, Worldwide Head of Consumer Products – Food & Beverage, AWS

Good intro piece

dig·​i·​tal: of, relating to,…


From Yoshua Bengio

Scaling in the service of reasoning & model-based ML

Scaling in the service of reasoning & model-based ML

This blog post is co-written by my PhD student Edward J. Hu. Scaling seems to work really well. We must be cautious in pursuing research…

L’article Scaling in the service of reasoning & model-based ML est apparu en premier sur…


From The Eponymous Pickle

BBC advises staff to delete TikTok from work phones

BBC advises staff to delete TikTok from work phones

Security addressed  at the BBC

BBC advises staff to delete TikTok from work phones

Published, 22 hours ago, By Zoe Kleinman, Andre Rhoden-Paul & Chris Vallance

BBC News

The BBC has advised staff to delete TikTok from corporate phones…


From insideHPC

ADIA Lab to Establish European HQ in Spain

ADIA Lab to Establish European HQ in Spain

Granada, Spain — 21 March 2023 — The government of Spain has signed an agreement with ADIA Lab, the Abu-Dhabi-based research institute dedicated to data and computational sciences, that will see ADIA Lab establish its European…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Use cases of GPT-4

Use cases of GPT-4

 Directions and examples.....

MIT Technology Review

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

How AI experts are using GPT-4

Plus: Chinese tech giant Baidu just released its answer to ChatGPT.

By Melissa Heikkiläarchive page

March 21, 2023   STEPHANIE…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Security Robotics

Security Robotics

Basic physical security is needed. 

Robots are your new office security guard

Jennifer A. Kingson

Cobalt Robotic

They stand five feet tall and glide at three miles per hour, patrolling office buildings for everything from broken…


From Schneier on Security

US Citizen Hacked by Spyware

US Citizen Hacked by Spyware

The New York Times is reporting that a US citizen’s phone was hacked by the Predator spyware.

A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta’s security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by…


From insideHPC

OmniScale Media Selected as SC23 Strategic Communications Partner 

OmniScale Media Selected as SC23 Strategic Communications Partner 

Vancouver, WA – March 21, 2023 – OmniScale Media, a media agency focused on advanced computing technology companies, today announced a new partnership with SC23, the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Debuts PaLM API and MakerSuite for Generative AI App Developers

Google Debuts PaLM API and MakerSuite for Generative AI App Developers

Google Tools for Building Generative AI

Google Debuts PaLM API and MakerSuite for Generative AI App Developers

ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ

Google has introduced two new tools for building generative AI projects. The new PaLM API offers access…


From insideHPC

IBM Quantum System One Deployed at Cleveland Clinic

IBM Quantum System One Deployed at Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland and Armonk, NY – March 20, 2023 – Today, Cleveland Clinic and IBM officially unveiled what they said is the onsite, private sector IBM-managed quantum computer in the United States. The IBM Quantum System One will be…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Cohere.ai Pre trained Models and Tools for NLP Tasks

Cohere.ai  Pre trained Models and Tools for NLP Tasks

Brought to my attention,    Useful when combined with GPT models?   Experiences?

Harness the power of text A

 Cohere.ai


See their blog for examples, uses:  https://txt.cohere.ai/

Automatically generate writing according to any criteria…


From insideHPC

AWS Adopting HVO to Decarbonize Data Centers in Europe

AWS Adopting HVO to Decarbonize Data Centers in Europe

March 20, 2023 — Amazon Web Services said today it has begun transitioning to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) to power backup generators at its data centers in Europe, with sites in Ireland and Sweden among the first to make…


From insideHPC

HPE Acquiring OpsRamp for GreenLake ITOM

HPE Acquiring OpsRamp for GreenLake ITOM

HOUSTON – March 20, 2023 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today said it has agreed to acquire OpsRamp, an IT operations management (ITOM) company that monitors, observes, automates and manages IT infrastructure, cloud…


From The Eponymous Pickle

CGT: Smart Packaging

CGT: Smart Packaging

CGT Insider, CGT Webinar

Towards an area of much smarter packaging, Get ready

ICYMI: How ChatGPT Could Overhaul Consumer Goods and Red Flags to Look For

 The best strategy for generative AI is likely cautious experimentation atUnilever…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Control with Better Speech Recognition

Machine Control with  Better Speech Recognition

 Industrial manufacturing view .... 

Intuitive machine control using speech recognition

Research News / February 15, 2023

Fraunhofer researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Oldenburg have developed…


From The Eponymous Pickle

The Loyalty Gap: Difference Between Repeat and Loyal Customers

The Loyalty Gap: Difference Between Repeat and Loyal Customers

 Customers considered 

The Loyalty Gap: The Difference Between Repeat Customers and Loyal Customers

By Shep Hyken -March 16, 2023    in Customerthink

Or, The Loyalty Gap.    In a recent Shepard Letter, I discussed the Trust Gap,…


From Computational Complexity

New Upper Bound on R(k). WOW!

 R(k) is the least n such that for all 2-colorings of the edges of \(K_n\) there is a monochromatic \(K_k\)

(so there are k vertices such that the coloring restricted to the edges between those k vertices is constant)


Here is some…


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

Empowered by Support: Communities, Connections & Careers – Part 3

Empowered by Support: Communities, Connections & Careers – Part 3

Part 1 – Introductions and impact of communities in career Part 2 – Initiatives and communities for women We continue with Kathleen’s journey in a startup. Kathleen, please tell us more about OwnTrail, which you were a member…


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

Empowered by Support: Communities, Connections & Careers – Part 2

Empowered by Support: Communities, Connections & Careers – Part 2

Part 1 – Introductions and impact of communities in career Continuing our discussion, could you talk more about your own initiatives? What are also some other initiatives that are available for free for anyone? Are there any…


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

Empowered by Support: Communities, Connections & Careers – Part 1

Empowered by Support: Communities, Connections & Careers – Part 1

Whether you are a student or an experienced engineering leader, a robust network, an opportunity for peer learning, the prospects of mentorship, and a crowd-sourced catalogue of career opportunities are vital for your personal…


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

Above and Beyond Scholarship – Dilrukshi Gamage, PhD

Above and Beyond Scholarship – Dilrukshi Gamage, PhD

Year of Scholarship and Conference Attendance: ​​ICCE (International Conference on Computers in Education) 2014 Nara, Japan Country of Origin: Sri Lanka Country of residence at the time of receiving the ACM-W Scholarship: Sri…


From The Eponymous Pickle

OpenAI Launches GPT-4 (Announcement, Description and Further Details)

OpenAI Launches GPT-4 (Announcement, Description and Further Details)

 (Link throughs will be updated) 

OpenAI launches GPT-4!

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From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Liability

AI and Liability

Is this different from more general liability issues?  Does it matter in how the technology is seen by consumers, patients?   As intelligent? .   In the last AI efforts we talked with with company lawyers.  Insurance Implications…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Technology in Insurance Sector (India)

Technology in Insurance Sector (India)

 Would think that AI would also change things strongly here.  How specific this is to India is unclear.

ACM NEWS

Technology Innovation in the Insurance Sector

By Express Computer (India), March 14, 2023

The insurance sector has experienced…


From The Eponymous Pickle

ISSIP Talk on Digital Twins

ISSIP Talk on Digital Twins

The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals  (ISSIP)

ISSIP Ambassador Panel Online Talk on Digital Twins         

ISSIP Ambassadors Shaun West and Antonio Padovano joined the ISSIP Ambassador Panel Talk on Digital…


From The Eponymous Pickle

Boosting Photodiode Efficiency to 220%

Boosting Photodiode Efficiency to 220%

Towards more efficient power for devices

Boosting Photodiode Efficiency to 220% By R. Colin Johnson

Commissioned by CACM Staff, March 16, 2023

Eindhoven University of Technology’s super-sensitive photodiode will be used in sensors…


From The Eponymous Pickle

NVIDIA GPU Accellerated Applications

NVIDIA GPU Accellerated Applications

From NVIDIA< GPU Accellerated Applications.    -      Quite a considerable library  Examining.

Industries

Financial Services

Consumer Internet

Healthcare

Higher Education

Retail

Public Sector

All Industries >

Solutions

Data Analytics

Machine…


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

Welcome to our new ACM-W Scholarships Committee Chair!

Welcome to our new ACM-W Scholarships Committee Chair!

Dr Marjana Prifti Skenduli is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of New York Tirana, Albania. She received her bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Tirana…


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

Ohio Celebration of Women in Conference (OCWiC) 2023!

Ohio Celebration of Women in Conference (OCWiC) 2023!

It’s a wrap! The Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWiC) occurred on February 24th & 25th, 2023, at Sawmill Creek Resort in Huron, Ohio. Except for 2021, due to the pandemic, this celebration has occurred every odd year…

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