IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK

[Quantum Technology] Cybersecurity of Quantum Computing: A New Frontier. Research and development of quantum computers continues to grow at a rapid pace. The U.S. government alone spent more than $800 million on quantum information science (QIS) research in 2022. The promise of quantum computers is substantial – they will be able to solve certain problems that are classically intractable, meaning a conventional computer cannot complete the calculations within human-usable timescales. Given this computational power, there is growing discussion surrounding the cyber threats quantum computers may pose in the future. There is very little discussion, however, on how we will protect quantum computers in the future ?

[AI] Samsung workers accidentally leaked trade secrets via ChatGPT. Never forget that anything you share with ChatGPT is retained and used to further train the model. Samsung employees have learned this the hard way after accidentally leaking top secret Samsung data. Samsung employees accidentally shared confidential information while using ChatGPT for help at work. Samsung's semiconductor division has allowed engineers to use ChatGPT to check source code. But the Economist Korea reported three separate instances of Samsung employees unintentionally leaking sensitive information to ChatGPT. In one instance, an employee pasted confidential source code into the chat to check for errors. Another employee shared code with ChatGPT and "requested code optimization." A third, shared a recording of a meeting to convert into notes for a presentation. That information is now out in the wild for ChatGPT to feed on.

[Blockchain] India building national blockchain infrastructure. Various Indian news outlets have reported that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is building an Indian national blockchain infrastructure. India’s project is called the Unified Blockchain Framework for offering National Blockchain Service and creation of Ecosystem. It aims to provide a blockchain-as-a-service infrastructure so that developers don’t have to worry about the heavy lifting involved in setting up blockchain nodes, their security and interoperability with other blockchains. It will also provide smart contract templates for a variety of use cases. The applications being explored emphasize government use cases, but the project will also investigate the relevance of blockchain in industries such as shipping, logistics and finance.

[Industrial Metaverse] Transforming 5G Network Design and Planning With Digital Twins. The highly complex nature of 5G networks is making the telecom industry increasingly more amenable to the concept of digital twin technology in support of 5G network deployments. Within the telecom's environment, a real-world entity most often encompasses a service provider’s network and its broader environment including terrain, buildings, vegetation, subscribers, devices and so on. A digital twin can replicate the live network environment so that it can be used to quickly and cost-effectively simulate various interactions and instances to determine what will happen in different scenarios, using different 5G features and capabilities. Today's networks are so expansive and complex that making the necessary changes and updates to the infrastructure is both a protracted and costly process.

[General technology] Opera brings its free VPN to iOS to rival Apple and Google’s paid alternatives. Opera, the makers of an ad-blocking web browser, announced today it’s rolling out an updated version of its iOS app that now includes its free VPN. Previously available on Mac, Windows, Linux and Android, the iOS release now makes Opera the first browser to offer a free VPN service across all major computing platforms, the company touted in its announcement. The news is particularly timely given that, late last year, Opera’s largest competitor Google expanded its own VPN tool to desktop users on Mac and PC, after earlier supporting iOS and Android.

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OTHER NEWS AND TOP READS

• ​Kuwait news outlet unveils AI-generated presenter Fedha - BBC
• ​Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best - Futurism
• ​The United States, Britain, and Australia Announce the Path Forward for AUKUS - CSIS
• ​World Quantum Day – A Chance to Look in on NQIS Centers - HPC Wire
• ​BIS prefers tokenized deposits over stablecoins for private digital currency - BIS
• ​Bank of England Building Its CBDC Team - PYMNTS
• ​Sony Electronics Introduces New Generation Spatial Reality Display - The Metaverse Insider
• ​Digital Twins Offer a Whole New Layer of Security, Study Suggests - IEEE
• ​Meta's WhatsApp rolls out business payment tool in Brazil - Reuters
• ​GCHQ gets first woman to lead UK’s cyber intelligence spy agency - Euronews

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Stanford University & Google’s Generative Agents Produce Believable Proxies of Human Behaviours

By: SYNCED

“In a new paper Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, a team from Stanford University and Google Research presents agents that draw on generative models to simulate both individual and emergent group behaviours that are humanlike and based on their identities, changing experiences, and environment.

Figure 1: Generative agents create believable simulacra of human behavior for interactive applications. Source:https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442.pdf

The team summarizes their main contributions as follows:

• Generative agents, believable simulacra of human behaviour that are dynamically conditioned on agents’ changing experiences and environment.
• A novel architecture that makes it possible for generative agents to remember, retrieve, reflect, interact with other agents, and plan through dynamically evolving circumstances.
• Two evaluations (a controlled evaluation and end-to-end evaluation) that establish causal effects of the importance of components of the architecture, as well as identify breakdowns arising from, e.g., improper memory retrieval.
• Discussion of the opportunities and ethical and societal risks of generative agents in interactive systems.

The team sought to build a virtual open-world framework where intelligent agents go about their business and engage with each other in natural language — planning their days, sharing news, forming relationships, and coordinating group activities — all while conditioning their behaviours on both the changing environment and their past experiences. The team’s novel agent architecture combines a large language model (LLM) with mechanisms that synthesize and extract information based on the LLM outputs such that the agents learn from their past experiences how to make more accurate real-time inferences while maintaining long-term character coherence.”

Read the full article from Synced here: https://syncedreview.com/2023/04/12/stanford-u-googles-generative-agents-produce-believable-proxies-of-human-behaviours/

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