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Good Morning! In an insightful paper, top researchers envision the future of AI as a "Collective AI" network, similar to Star Trek's Borg hive mind, where independent AI units can continuously learn and share knowledge. C++ creator speaks out against code security concerns have arisen as the White House warns against using languages like C++ and C. Meanwhile, Microsoft has released AI-powered .NET Smart Components to boost user productivity.

— Forrest Knight & Meghanadh Vasireddy

Top Computer Scientists Say the Future of AI is Similar to that of Star Trek

In a recent paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers from top universities like Loughborough, MIT, and Yale outline their vision.

The researchers predict the emergence of "Collective AI" - a network where numerous AI units can continuously learn and share knowledge with each other. They draw parallels to sci-fi concepts like the "Borg" hive mind from Star Trek.

Key Aspects:

• AI units remain independent with their own objectives (an "AI democracy")

• Instant knowledge sharing across the collective network

• Enables rapid response to threats, personalized medical care, adaptable robots

• Based on advances in lifelong learning and universal knowledge sharing protocols

Today's large language models like ChatGPT acquire most knowledge during training with limited further learning. Collective AI allows continuous expansion of an AI's knowledge base.

Potential Benefits:

• Combining latest AI expertise with patient data for better healthcare

• Robots that quickly adapt to emergency/disaster environments

• Optimized learning speed and sustainability compared to current isolated AI models

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Get smarter about protecting your S3 data

With rising costs for Amazon S3 storage and potentially devastating business consequences from data loss, you need a holistic approach to cutting unnecessary spending and guarding against risks. Lawrence Miller, a consultant to multinational corporations who holds numerous networking certifications, has authored a concise volume that lays out the path to success in managing backup and compliance for S3 data lakes.

C++ Creator Speaks Up After White House Warning

The White House recently released a report urging developers to avoid using programming languages with memory safety vulnerabilities, citing C++ and C as examples of such "vulnerable" languages.

Bjarne Stroustrup's Response: Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, has defended the widely-used language in response to the White House report. In a statement to InfoWorld, he pointed out the strengths of contemporary C++ and the ongoing efforts to provide strong safety guarantees.

Improving safety has been a goal since C++'s inception in 1979. Stroustrup highlighted some key safety improvements in modern C++:

• RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization)

• Containers

• Resource management pointers instead of traditional C-style pointers

He realized that while much existing C++ code doesn't follow up-to-date guidelines, the C++ standards committee is working on "Profiles" - a framework to specify and verify code safety guarantees.

Bjarne Stroustrup wants to incrementally introduce guarantees like type and resource safety into large codebases through static analysis and minimal runtime checks. His long-term goal for C++ is to offer type and resource safety when and where needed.

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Microsoft Releases AI-Powered .NET Smart Components

Microsoft has launched .NET Smart Components, a new set of AI-powered UI controls that can easily be dropped into existing .NET web applications. The components aim to boost user productivity without requiring developers to spend weeks redesigning UX or studying machine learning.

The initial release includes three smart components:

• Smart Paste automatically fills out forms using data from the user's clipboard

• Smart TextArea provides intelligent autocomplete for sentences based on configured tone, policies, URLs etc.

• Smart ComboBox makes semantically relevant suggestions to help users find what they need

The experimental components currently work with Blazor, MVC, and Razor Pages apps using .NET 6 or later. Microsoft plans to add support for other .NET UI frameworks like .NET MAUI, WPF, and Windows Forms based on feedback.

"You don't have to spend weeks of dev time...researching machine learning and prompt engineering. .NET Smart Components are prebuilt end-to-end AI features that you can drop into your existing app UIs," said Daniel Roth, Principal Product Manager.

Developers can try out the components using sample apps on GitHub and provide feedback to Microsoft on expanding the capabilities.

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