From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, had a racist rant in a video he posted last week. As a result most newspapers that carried the comic strip are dropping Dilbert...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | March 2, 2023 at 08:19 AM
Martin Haug, who is working on a LaTeX alternative Typst, asked me if I had updates on a LaTeX rant from 2011. I haven't seen any new serious backward compatibility...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | February 23, 2023 at 10:02 AM
Ted Chiang in a recent New Yorker article likened ChatGPT to a blurry JPEG, i.e. a "lossy compression" of the web. It's a good article but the analogy isn'tKolmogorov...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | February 16, 2023 at 10:19 AM
Despite OpenAI's claim that ChatGPT has improved mathematical capabilities, we don't get far multiplying large numbers.Typical for ChatGPT, the answer passes the...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | February 9, 2023 at 09:59 AM
Nature laid out their ground rules for large language models like ChatGPT includingNo LLM tool will be accepted as a credited author on a research paper. That is...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | February 2, 2023 at 09:39 AM
The current state of computer science reminds me of the early excitement of the Internet in the mid-90's. By the beginning of the 90's, computers landed in many...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | January 26, 2023 at 08:55 AM
I'm sure many of you long-time readers are asking, "Why all this big focus on machine learning in your posts and tweets? You are the 'Computational Complexity'research...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | January 19, 2023 at 09:42 AM
As Google started to limit academic storage, I started looking at Google Takeout and started wondering what I could do with all that data. I downloaded all the...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | January 12, 2023 at 09:41 AM
Given the excitement over ChatGPT, I spent part of the winter recess trying to understand the underlying technology of Transformers. After trying various tutorials...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | January 3, 2023 at 09:58 AM
Complexity result of the year goes toNP-Hardness of Learning Programs and Partial MCSPby Shuichi HiraharaConsider the following version of Occam's Razor: find the...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | December 21, 2022 at 08:40 AM
Bill didn't feel he had the expertise to share new insights on the FTX affair. Never stopped me.FTX is nothing short of corporate malfeasance in a poorly regulated...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | December 15, 2022 at 11:57 AM
With all the excitement about ChatGPT, how will machine learning disrupt education, say five to ten years down the road?My guess: individualized tutors. Imagine...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | December 5, 2022 at 08:53 AM
A colleague said how they enjoyed watching the collapse of Twitter under Elon Musk. But I use Twitter to keep connected to the CS community. In Twitter I hear not...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | December 1, 2022 at 11:37 AM
On November 4th I travelled to my undergraduate alma mater Cornell for a Celebration of the Life and Career of Juris Hartmanis who passed away in July. The workshop...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | November 21, 2022 at 09:52 AM
In the fall I try to make my predictions on the faculty job market for the spring. The outlook this year is hazy as we have two forces pushing in opposite directions...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | November 17, 2022 at 09:44 AM
Terry Tao entitled his 2006 Fields Medal Lecture "The Dichotomy between structure and randomness" and state the Structure Theorem: Every object is a superposition...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | November 10, 2022 at 10:21 AM
Generally with some exceptions, I use Facebook for personal stuff, LinkedIn for Illinois Tech stuff and Twitter and this blog for CS stuff. Many of you got to this...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | November 3, 2022 at 08:18 AM
In the 24th move of the second game of the 1978 Chess Championship, a cup of blueberry yogurt was delivered to the defending champion Anatoly Karpov who offered...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | October 24, 2022 at 10:04 AM
In a recent post, Bill used the announcement of a new AI multiplication algorithm to discuss the applications of Strassen's famous algorithm. For this post I'dAlpha...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | October 20, 2022 at 10:27 AM
Many years ago I was asked to serve on an advisory board for an organization that did confidential research. To be on the board I had to have US top secret clearance...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | October 13, 2022 at 09:34 AM