Intelligent Machines are on the way

"a machine-animal symbiont with an animal visual system and brain to augment mechanical functions [..] feasible and likely to be available within the next 15 years"

#AI hype 50 years ago. What will people read in 50 years about our time? #IEEE #IEEESpectrum

Intelligent Machines are on the way
IEEE spectrum July 1974

Oscar Firschein, Martin A. Fischler
Lockheed Research Laboratory

L. Stephen Coles, Jay M. Tenenbaum
Stanford Research Institute

Driverless Buses Provide New Routes for Robotaxi Tech
https://spectrum.ieee.org/driverless-bus

#IEEESpectrum #TransitTooter

#IEEESpectrum on the dawn of the #EthernetBridge at #DEC.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-dec-engineers-saved-ethernet

#AI #LLM #PromptEngineering #ManVsMachine from #IEEESpectrum
https://bit.ly/3T7y3GZ

Videoconferencing exhaustion has now been neurologically proven. https://spectrum.ieee.org/zoom-fatigue

#Videoconferencing #OnlineMeetings #Fatigue #ZoomFatigue #IEEESpectrum

@ana Wow, that page is super detailed. I remember reading about core memory in this IEEE Spectrum article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-vacuum-tubes-forgotten-rival

#IEEESpectrum #CoreMemory

The IEEE Spectrum Top Programming Languages of 2023 #Programming #Python @IEEESpectrum https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/09/12/the-ieee-spectrum-top-programming-languages-of-2023-programming-python-ieeespectrum/ #ieeespectrum #programming #software #program #python #code

🤓📊 The Top Programming Languages 2023 >
Python and SQL are on top, but old languages shouldn’t be forgotten
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-top-programming-languages-2023
#programming #programminglanguages #programminglanguage #development #developer
#IEEESpectrum ( @IEEESpectrum@twitter.com )

IEEE Spectrum's Top Programming Languages 2023:

"This year, Python doesn’t just remain No. 1 in our general “Spectrum” ranking—which is weighted to reflect the interests of the typical IEEE member—but it widens its lead."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-top-programming-languages-2023
#IEEE #spectrum #IEEESpectrum #TPL #Python

"The Top Programming Languages 2023 > Python and SQL are on top, but old languages shouldn’t be forgotten"
#Python #SQL #ProgrammingLanguage
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-top-programming-languages-2023
From #IEEESpectrum

The top ten #programming languages. Back in 2003 I started messing around in #python , a couple of years later some colleagues told me I should use only #java as Python was of no value... I think they got the wrong langauge, the one I used in school #comal was in the end of less use.

#ieeespectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-top-programming-languages-2023

Can AI and fMRI “Hear” Unspoken Thoughts?
Hopes for paralyzed patients counterbalance calls for mental privacy

Utterly fascinating that we don’t know much about the brain, but we seem pretty good at “reading minds”! I got a chance to interview the lead researcher on this study for #IEEESpectrum:

#AI #LLM #NLP #neuroscience #fMRI #machineLearning #neuralNetworks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mind-reading-ai

“In AI, bigger is supposed to be better. Neural networks with billions of parameters power everyday AI-based tools, and each new large language model edges out its predecessors in size and complexity. Meanwhile, at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a researchers have been working on going small.”

I wrote about liquid neural networks for IEEE Spectrum:

#AI #neuralNetworks #machineLearning #IEEESpectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/liquid-neural-networks

A remarkably sober look at the need for regulation, transparency around how models are trained, and costs in the world of AI. It makes a really good point about the UX required for machine learning to be useful at scale.

“I have learned from experience that leaving tools completely open-ended tends to confuse users more than assist,” says Kirk. […]

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/04/14/the-future-of-ai-will-always-be-more-than-six-months-away/

The first-known piezoelectric liquids could have novel applications in electrically controlled optics and hydraulics https://spectrum.ieee.org/piezoelectric-liquid by @cqchoi for #IEEEspectrum

Time Reflections Reverse How Light Travels in Time: Novel “time interfaces” could have wireless, radar, and optical computing applications https://spectrum.ieee.org/time-reversal-interface by @cqchoi for #IEEEspectrum

Decentralized Social Media Rises as Twitter Melts Down - #IEEESpectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mastodon-social-media
>#Mastodon is just the start—here comes the #Fediverse

The many innovations that came from Xerox Alto: Ethernet, GUI, SmallTalk, WYSIWYG word processing (MS Word), DynaBook (tablet computer), HyperCard, PostScript.

#IEEESpectrum #XeroxAlto

https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto

Fantastic #IEEESpectrum article on the Xerox Alto personal computer and the many innovations that came from it to revolutionize personal computing.

Bonus: the article has gorgeous photos of the Alto in use at Xerox in the 1970s.

#XeroxAlto

https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto

It’s the 50th anniversary of the #XeroxAlto! The #IEEESpectrum has a good article (linked below) and the cover photo is a bit of a flashback. My first computer at Xerox was an Alto (then a #XeroxDolphin and then a #XeroxDandelion). We all had that same table and chair and some had that same potted plant.

I got lucky and inherited a bean bag chair from someone. They were cool/popular at the time.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto