“A riddle wrapped up in an enigma” is a shortened form of a quotation made in October 1939, just one month after the Second World War had begun, by Sir Winston Churchill in a radio broadcast to the British people. At the time, Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty. The full comment was “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma…”
We recently probed Google’s Bard AI concerning the Russia-Ukraine war, and found that it displayed strong opinions about it.
Just in time for July 4th, a Federal court judge in the Missouri vs. Biden court case issued a pro First Amendment ruling.
Always use two-step verification, and never give either verification codes or passwords to anyone, even someone claiming to be a Coinbase employee.
A recent research paper posted on SSRN detailed a web3 search engine that would use decentralized storage, PoS (Proof of Stake) and new PoL (Proof of Learning) crypto mechanisms to power and ensure the integrity of the decentralized network and service.
AI will erase jobs in a range of industries, but perhaps it’s surprising that some tech jobs are among the first to go.
The Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland have banned ChatGPT and similar “large language model” AIs from public schools until government education departments determine how they can be used “safely and appropriately” in classrooms.
A team of 19 Chinese computer scientists from five separate institutions claim to have created an AI that designed a computer’s central processing unit (CPU)—a computer’s master chip or “brain”—in less than five hours, or about 1,000 times faster than humans could have accomplished the same task.
The National Science Foundation has named 34 semifinalists in the first round of its Regional Innovation Engine program. Five winners will be named this fall to share $15 million over two years, then split another $145 million.
Two new breakthroughs have moved quantum computers closer to practical use.
Quantum computers can store vastly more data and process it far faster than conventional computers. The reason: current computers store data as a series of ones and zeros. Each digit is stored in a specific spot in a computer’s memory chips and the computer processes each digit one after the other.