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Sep 30, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | Gregory Mone |Herbert Bruderer |Ted Selker |WALID SABA
When Mark Kuemerle, vice president of technology at semiconductor manufacturer Marvell, needed to familiarize some new engineering hires with one of the challenges facing their industry, he borrowed a bunch of LEGO blocks from his kids. He presented the group with a select number of mismatched blocks. The pieces, Kuemerle explained to his new initiates, were meant to represent different chips with particular functions.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | Herbert Bruderer |Ted Selker |WALID SABA
Many clocks contain musical mechanisms: table clocks, standing clocks, longcase clocks, flute-playing clocks, and pocket watches. Automaton figures, furniture (e.g. desks), jewelry, as well as picture clocks sometimes also have built-in musical mechanisms. For the musical program, historical systems used different sound recording media: pinned cylinder, perforated disc, perforated cardboard tape, and perforated paper roll were widely used.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | Robin Hill |Ted Selker |WALID SABA |Alex Williams
Robin K. HillThe Techno-Pro Attitudehttps://bit.ly/3XgIziSJune 10, 2024Tech solutionism, as identified by Moss and Metcalf,7 is the notion that all problems have tractable technical fixes. We see variants in the naming and definition of this phenomenon: the technology imperative,8 or “the underlying technocratic philosophy of inevitability”,4 or even old-fashioned technocracy itself.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | Luis Ceze |Ted Selker |WALID SABA |Alex Williams
There is no denying that deep learning, especially with generative models AI, has deeply transformed how we use computers. It has also quickly become where a very large fraction of the world’s computing resources is now focused. Most deep-learning systems implementations involve expressing the machine learning (ML) model in some higher-level framework (for example, Caffe in the early days, then TensorFlow, and now PyTorch).
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | Ted Selker |Berry Billingsley |WALID SABA |Alex Williams
Our last post introduced a novel interface with a facial expression drawn on the sides of a cube made of a sponge, to guide the tone of a Generative AI response. Showing a face to the camera on a phone or tablet prompted Generative AI’s response to come from a curious, thoughtful, skeptical, or confident point of view. Besides getting people to see how tone affects responses, the unusual interface might help people remember the experience well.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | WALID SABA |Alex Williams |Gregory Goth
McCarthy and his Prediction Regarding ‘Scruffy’ AIJohn McCarthy, one of the founders of (and the one who supposedly coined the term) artificial intelligence (AI), stated on several occasions that if we insist on building AI systems based on empirical methods (e.g., neural networks or evolutionary models), we might be successful in building “some kind of an AI,” but even the designers of such systems will not understand how such systems work (see, for an example, [1]).
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
cacm.acm.org | Esther Shein |Ted Selker |WALID SABA |Alex Williams
Last fall, Eric Klopfer decided to conduct an experiment in his undergraduate computer science class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He divided the class into three groups and gave them a programming task to solve in the Fortran language, which none of them knew. One group was allowed to use ChatGPT to solve the problem, the second group was told to use Meta’s Code Llama large language model (LLM), and the third group could only use Google.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
cacm.acm.org | WALID SABA
View as:PrintMobile AppShare:Credit: Walid S. SabaCreated using Generative AI Tools1. Large Language Models: The End of History? Since the advent of the transformer and attention mechanisms [1] large language models (LLMs) have been all the rage, not only in the artificial intelligence (AI) community but in all of science and technology and even in business and society at large (the query "Large Language Models" I recently executed on Google returned over 2 billion hits).
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
cacm.acm.org | WALID SABA
View as:PrintMobile AppShare:1. Large Language Models: The End of History? Since the advent of the transformer and attention mechanisms [1] large language models (LLMs) have been all the rage, not only in the artificial intelligence (AI) community but in all of science and technology and even in business and society at large (the query "Large Language Models" I recently executed on Google returned over 2 billion hits).
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Aug 20, 2023 | 
cacm.acm.org | WALID SABA
View as:PrintMobile AppShare:1. IntroductionBefore we commence, we need to clarify what we men by learning. To make this clarification we first need to discuss our use of the phrase ‘I know’. To be sure, our folk use of the phrase ‘I know’ in our everyday linguistic communication is utterly overloaded to the point that it has misguided the most learned amongst us and has caused us to ignore the critical difference in the two major uses of the phrase.
