[1] Yesterday, Elon Musk entered the charged Twitter debate on whether
artificial general intelligence (AGI), or the ability for AI to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can, is imminent.
Of course, Musk's tweets should always be taken with truckloads of salt. The world's richest man is also known for some of the world's worst Twitter takes, from manipulating Tesla stock to giving Kanye West's 2020 presidential run his "full support" — not to mention the recent "will he or won't he," regarding his deal to buy Twitter itself.
Still, Musk's comments, as usual, couldn't be simply ignored. In a new post on his Substack, Gary Marcus, author of Rebooting.AI and a big (some say controversial) driver of the AGI critique on Twitter, wrote
an open letter to Elon Musk, offering to place a $100,000 bet on whether AGI would appear by 2029.
>> Read more. [2] Enterprises are increasingly adopting new digital technologies to help streamline and automate the design and
manufacturing of physical products.
Digital twins help organize and share much of this technical data. Digital threads connect changes to this data across a product or processes lifecycle.
However, some of the most crucial manufacturing data is managed as PDF documents and handwritten notes, also known as "unstructured data." At the Digital Twin Summit, executives from XSB, an industrial artificial intelligence (AI) company, explained how
natural language processing (NLP) techniques are bridging the gap between text documents, digital twins and digital threads.
>> Read more. [3] The world's fastest and most powerful high-performance computing (HPC) supercomputers are front and center at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) which runs from May 29 to June 2 in Hamburg, Germany. As part of the ISC event, Nvidia will provide insight into its latest HPC systems and the use cases they enable.
"HPC plus AI is really the transformational tool of scientific computing," Dion Harris, lead technical product marketing manager for accelerated computing, said in a media briefing ahead of ISC. "We talk about exascale AI because we do believe that this is going to be one of the key pivotal tools to drive scientific innovation and any data center that's building a supercomputer needs to understand how their system will perform from an AI standpoint."
>> Read more. 
