Pentagon names ex-DOGE employee Gavin Kliger as Chief Data Officer to lead its AI efforts; Kliger previously reposted white supremacist Nick Fuentes' content
The Pentagon on Friday named as Chief Data Officer a computer scientist who aided billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to overhaul …
SCOTUS declines to hear a dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material, in a case where a computer scientist was denied a copyright for AI-generated art
SCOTUS declines to hear a dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material, in a case where a computer scientist was denied a copyright for AI-generated art
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence …
Why AI isn't replacing radiologists: models underperform in hospital settings, AI use faces legal hurdles, and the job is much more than image recognition
For years, radiology has been the go-to example in conversations about AI and professional obsolescence. … Bluesky: Eric Knutson / @alwayscorrect : I think they are using predictive AI for that, not L...
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin on AI frontier models, scaling data centers, reasoning, DeepThink, AGI, and more
Google co-founder Brin says “anybody who's a computer scientist should not be retired right now. They should be working on AI."
A look at the ARC-AGI exam designed by French computer scientist François Chollet to show the gulf between AI models' memorized answers and “fluid intelligence”
Matteo Wong / The Atlantic :
A look at OpenWorm, a 13-year-old project that has so far failed to simulate C. elegans, one of the simplest and most extensively studied organisms in the world
Every time I read a story about mind uploading or personality backups I think “they can't yet simulate a worm with 300 neurons; a human has 86 billion” — www.wired.com/story/openwo... X: @wired : On...
Thomas E. Kurtz, an American mathematician, computer scientist, and co-inventor of the BASIC programming language with John Kemeny, died at 96 on November 12
Dag Spicer / CHM :
Q&A with physicist Lenka Zdeborová on how the physics of phase transitions in matter can help model the behavior of algorithms, understanding LLMs, and more
Quanta spoke with Zdeborová about the similarities between water and algorithms, using physics … X: @theomitsa , @epfl_en , @abatanasov , and @quantamagazine X: Dr. Theophano Mitsa / @theomitsa : Fant...
A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to uncover the Great Firewall's domain blocklists; GFWeb data reveals China blocked ChatGPT on March 2, 2023
GFWeb is a measurement platform capable of testing hundreds of millions … USENIX : GFWeb: Measuring the Great Firewall's Web Censorship at Scale X: Joanna Chiu / @joannachiu : I was amazed when UBC co...