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COSM: Ethernet Inventor Asks, Are We Ready for New IT Technology?

Bob Metcalfe, winner of the Turing Award, the “Nobel Prize of computing,” for the co-invention of the Ethernet, will offer some thoughts at the upcoming COSM meet on what to expect “Beyond Chips, Silicon, and Data Centers.” He asks, "Will we be spooked by the coming terahertz waferscale paradigm?” Read More ›
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Is Open AI — and Chatbots in General — the Next Train Wreck?

Yesterday AI commentator Gary Marcus described OpenAI — the ChatGPT chatbot company — as a slow-motion train wreck. He was referring to yet more high-profile departure via a series of puff piece magazine covers, commenting, “From left to right that’s Ilya Sutskever (now gone, less than a year later), Greg Brockman (on leave, at least until the end of the year), CTO Mira Murati (departure just announced) and Sam Altman (fired, and then rehired).” Read More ›
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COSM 2024: Learn More About the Tech That Will Replace the Chip

Tech philosopher George Gilder is feeling pretty pumped about the upcoming COSM meet, October 31 to November 1, 2024 — and with good reason. He’s got a pretty strong lineup of speakers. They aren’t the people who are always in the news. But if you ask insiders, they are some of the people who matter most. Read More ›
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What We Can Learn From the Crowdstrike Fiasco

Saving effort in the short term by running these risks is a decision that should be made with full knowledge of how near-term decisions affect long-term risks. Read More ›
Artificial Intelligence Content Generator. A man uses a laptop to interact with AI assistant. AI offers functions like chatbot, generate images, write code, writer bot, translate and advertising. LLM.
Artificial Intelligence Content Generator. A man uses a laptop to interact with AI assistant. AI offers functions like chatbot, generate images, write code, writer bot, translate and advertising.
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Written by Human or Bot? Researchers Have a New Way to Tell

The researchers warn against using chatbots in research writing: While it can compose correct English, what it says may be false, inaccurate, or confabulated. Read More ›
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YouTube Tries to Take Down Deepfake Impersonations… Well, Sort Of

YouTube doesn’t want to harm its business model, which thrives on sensation and controversy but it must also avoid at all costs a legal and political powderkeg. Read More ›
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Robot hand typing on the computer. The concept of artificial intelligence replacing a human in dealing with another human. Ai generative
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Marvin Minsky Asks: Can GPT4 Hack Itself? 

Creativity and understanding, properly defined, lie beyond the capability of the computers of today and tomorrow. Read More ›
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Researchers: Chatbots Generally Flunk Simple Logic Test

The AI researchers report “a dramatic breakdown of function and reasoning capabilities of state-of-the-art models trained at the largest available scales”. Read More ›