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Why the U.S. National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) Matters

CTOvision

While launched to relatively little media or public fanfare, the NSCI can reasonably be compared to other sweeping, government-led initiatives designed to accelerate economic, scientific, or other advances in a specific sector. Government Wants To Access Microsoft's Email Overseas (warnewsupdates.blogspot.com). Related articles.

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Interview: Microsoft President Brad Smith supports plan for AI ‘safety brakes’ in U.S. Senate hearing

GeekWire

Brad Smith, the Microsoft president and vice chair, drew that comparison Tuesday in his testimony before the U.S. And I think we have, and can continue to create, a safety architecture that puts guardrails so that it prevents people from using it for things that would harm themselves or others. It’s extraordinarily useful.

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Acceptance Networks for Self-Sovereign Identity

Phil Windley

Our goal was to create a system of protocols, processes, technology and governance that would reduce the risk of self-sovereign identity and increase confidence in an identity system that let the subjects present verifiable credentials that carried reliable attributes from many sources. 3 This figure, from ToIP, shows how such a stack works.

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ChatGPT, the rise of generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Five years later, transformer architecture has evolved to create powerful models such as ChatGPT. ChatGPT was trained with 175 billion parameters; for comparison, GPT-2 was 1.5B (2019), Google’s LaMBDA was 137B (2021), and Google’s BERT was 0.3B (2018). GPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer.

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36 Shades of Hybrid IT

Cloud Musings

The primary drivers in an implementation model selection is enforcement of enterprise IT governance processes (status quo and MSP option) or acceptance of CSP IT governance processes (CSP option). Comparisons and options should be considered using real data.

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GM reveals Ultra Cruise ‘hands-free’ system that covers ‘95 percent’ of driving scenarios

The Verge

By comparison, Ultra Cruise will be much more capable. The sensing architecture is all new,” Ditman said. The federal government is paying more attention to ADAS, recently announcing that automakers would be required to report incidents involving driver assistance and autonomous systems within one day of learning of a crash.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Texas Cloud Computing.

Cloud Musings

Gravitant also provided extensive architecture and solution support. Gravitant , as the cloud broker, established, negotiated, and governed the reseller agreements with the individual cloud service providers. Provide a means to regulate payment across multiple government entities. Cloud Computing Presentations. Popular Pages.

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