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Terahertz and optical wireless communication towers in a futuristic city with softwaredefined networking control centers

^{Mind Matters News
October 1, 2024
COSM}

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

_{Mind Matters News
October 1, 2024
COSM}

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 ›

^{Mind Matters News
September 26, 2024
Artificial Intelligence}

Is Open AI — and Chatbots in General — the Next Train Wreck?

_{Mind Matters News
September 26, 2024
Artificial Intelligence}

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 ›

Man hands holding global network and data customer connection on nature background.

^{Mind Matters News
September 25, 2024
COSM}

COSM 2024: Learn More About the Tech That Will Replace the Chip

_{Mind Matters News
September 25, 2024
COSM}

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 ›

^{Eric Holloway
July 20, 2024
Artificial Intelligence}

Tech Hype Watch: Do Chatbots Really Understand Things?

_{Eric Holloway
July 20, 2024
Artificial Intelligence}

There is no way to build a computer that does not rely on 1’s and 0’s (computation), so computers that understand meaning are not possible. Read More ›

Mad african American female sit at table look at laptop screen frustrated by operational software system problems, angry biracial woman confused by slow internet connection, virus attack on computer

^{Jonathan Bartlett
July 20, 2024
Cybersecurity}

What We Can Learn From the Crowdstrike Fiasco

_{Jonathan Bartlett
July 20, 2024
Cybersecurity}

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 ›

Web Development Dreams Come True: Silhouetted Developers in Discussion with Company Logo

^{Jeffrey Funk
July 12, 2024
Artificial Intelligence}

Are We Close to Peak AI Hype?

_{Jeffrey Funk
July 12, 2024
Artificial Intelligence}

Sanity might be about ready to return to the market. Just maybe, we have reached peak hype. 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.

^{Mind Matters News
July 9, 2024
Artificial Intelligence}

Written by Human or Bot? Researchers Have a New Way to Tell

_{Mind Matters News
July 9, 2024
Artificial Intelligence}

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 ›

^{Mind Matters News
July 9, 2024
Artificial Intelligence, Privacy}

YouTube Tries to Take Down Deepfake Impersonations… Well, Sort Of

_{Mind Matters News
July 9, 2024
Artificial Intelligence, Privacy}

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 ›

Robot hand typing on the computer. The concept of artificial intelligence replacing a human in dealing with another human. Ai generative

^{Robert J. Marks II
June 14, 2024
Artificial Intelligence}

Marvin Minsky Asks: Can GPT4 Hack Itself?

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 14, 2024
Artificial Intelligence}

Creativity and understanding, properly defined, lie beyond the capability of the computers of today and tomorrow. Read More ›

Automation customer service concept with 3d rendering cute robot working with headset and notebook

^{Mind Matters News
June 13, 2024
Artificial Intelligence}

Researchers: Chatbots Generally Flunk Simple Logic Test

_{Mind Matters News
June 13, 2024
Artificial Intelligence}

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 ›