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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Computational Complexity
The Thrill of Seeing Your Name in Print is Gone
In the 1980's and 1990's when I got a paper accepted to a journal or conference it seemed important to see it in print. Having a paper accepted was nice, butthis...![[Book] Guardrails](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Guardrails
When we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, “guardrails” that guide our decisions, like the laws and rules that govern us. But what are...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Plant Looks Like a Squid
Newly discovered plant looks like a squid. And it’s super weird: The plant, which grows to 3 centimetres tall and 2 centimetres wide, emerges to the surface for...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
P=NP and Bitcoin
The present value of working on conjectures… Anil Nerode of Cornell University has served over sixty years—he’s believed to be the longest such faculty member in...
From insideHPC
India Spending Billions on AI
India is getting into AI in a big way. The Indian government announced yesterday it has budgeted more than Rs 10,300 crore (US$1.24 billion) for India’s AI ecosystem...
From Schneier on Security
Essays from the Second IWORD
The Ash Center has posted a series of twelve essays stemming from the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2023). Aviv Ovadya, Democracy...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How many political parties rule Canada? Fun with statistics
Canada has several political parties with elected member of parliament: the Liberals, the Conservatives, the Bloc Québecois, de NDP and the Green. But do the behave...
From Schneier on Security
A Taxonomy of Prompt Injection Attacks
Researchers ran a global prompt hacking competition, and have documented the results in a paper that both gives a lot of good examples and tries to organize a taxonomy...
From The Noisy Channel
Making Sense of Null and Low Results
With rare exception, searchers are unhappy when a search query returns zero results. Businesses — especially ecommerce businesses trying to sell products to searchers...
From insideHPC
Core Scientific to Provide CoreWeave up to 16 MW of Data Center Infrastructure for AI and HPC
AUSTIN, Texas– Core Scientific, Inc. (Nasdaq: CORZ), a bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure company, and CoreWeave, a GPU cloud provider, today announced a...
From insideHPC
Vultr Expands Cloud Nvidia H100 GPU Capacity
March 5, 2024 — Cloud hosting and cloud servers company Vultr announced the expansion of our Seattle cloud data center region at Sabey Data Centers’ SDC Columbia...
From insideHPC
Gates and CoolIT Systems Announce Liquid Cooling Collaboration
DENVER, March 6, 2024 – Gates (NYSE: GTES), a manufacturer of power transmission and fluid power solutions, announced its collaboration in data center cooling market...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA CUDA-X to Be Integrated with HP AI Workstations
March 7, 2024 — NVIDIA and HP Inc. today announced that NVIDIA CUDA-X data processing libraries will be integrated with HP AI workstation solutions to turbocharge...
From insideHPC
Qumulo Launches a Cloud Native Solution for Cold File Data
SEATTLE– March 5th, 2024 – High performance data management and storage company Qumulo has announced the availability of Azure Native Qumulo Cold (ANQ Cold), part...
From insideHPC
DCS Corporation Names Brian Wood Vice President of Robotic Systems Division
ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 7, 2024 — DCS Corporation is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Wood to vice president and division manager of the Robotic Systems...
From insideHPC
Jérôme Denigot Named EVP, Sensing & Monitoring, at CGG
CGG announced today the appointment of Jérôme Denigot as Executive Vice President, Sensing & Monitoring, effective February 26, 2024. In this new position, he will...
From Schneier on Security
How Public AI Can Strengthen Democracy
With the world’s focus turning to misinformation, manipulation, and outright propaganda ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we know that democracy has...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Sensitivity
Our next favorite theorem gave a relatively simple proof of the sensitivity conjecture, a long-standing problem of Boolean functions.Induced subgraphs of hypercubes...
From insideHPC
Argonne: ATPESC Training Application Deadline Extended to March 10
The application deadline for the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) program has been extended to Sunday, March 10. This year marks the...
From insideHPC