Consensus

The United Nations general assembly has passed (with the notable support of China) a resolution promoting the safe development of AI around the world. The resolution is non-binding, but symbolizes a heightened global concern about the potential risks of the burgeoning technology.The resolution was sponsored by the United States, which worked for months on the wording to gain the support of China, Russia, Cuba, and other countries less friendly to the U.S. The U.S. and China are considered the world’s biggest developers of…

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The UK government, AI companies, and creative organisations have failed to reach consensus on a proposed code that would set clear guidelines for the training of AI models on copyrighted material. For almost a year, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has been consulting with companies including Microsoft, Google DeepMind, and Stability AI as well as various art and news organisations like the BBC, the British Library, and the Financial Times.   The purpose of the talks was to produce a…

This article describes how to implement a Raft Server consensus module in C++20 without using any additional libraries. The narrative is divided into three main sections: A comprehensive overview of the Raft algorithm A detailed account of the Raft Server's development A description of a custom coroutine-based network library The implementation makes use of the robust capabilities of C++20, particularly coroutines, to present an effective and modern methodology for building a critical component of distributed…

Jason Hiner/ZDNETTo call Apple's news strategy for its $3,500 Vision ProCNET's Scott Stein says "living in the Vision Pro for the past week has been one of the most complex experiences of all. It's one of the hardest products I've ever had to evaluate. Parts of it are stunning. Others don't feel entirely finished." One aspect that impressed Stein was the Vision Pro's depth mapping and spatial awareness; particularly, how the headset did not need to map out guardian boundaries to process the objects surrounding…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain More than three years after New York authorities sued the National Rifle Association and four of its current and former leaders, the trial will begin on Jan. 8, 2024. In her complaint, New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges that outgoing NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre "exploited the organization…

NEW DELHI : India is negotiating an end-of-summit declaration with both member and guest nations for the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit on 12 December, said union information technology minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Monday. At a pre-summit press briefing, Vaishnaw said the declaration aims to advance talks on global AI regulatory frameworks, besides pitching for a digital public infrastructure (DPI)-like model that could be…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Writing in the journal Nature ahead of COP28, a team of Met Office scientists has emphasized that—surprisingly—there is currently no formally agreed way of defining the current level of global warming relevant to the Paris Agreement. They have proposed a solution. While the global average temperature in a…

Number and percentage of MEPs from different European regions surveyed. To ensure a diversity of views within our sample, we interviewed two representatives from each of the five political groups represented in the European Parliament in each of the five geographic regions of the European Union. Credit: Nature Sustainability (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41893-023-01246-x Politicians in the European Parliament are supportive of…

In my first engineering role in a software call center company, we wanted to add fault tolerance to the existing solution. After fruitless attempts to invent a consensus algorithm, we switched to ClusterLabs’ Pacemaker. Several years later, at Yandex, I skipped the invention step and was the first in the company to bring in Zookeeper and use it to build a cluster configuration management system. Later, I used etcd (the backbone of Kubernetes) and contributed to the open-source, improving etcd’s update performance. This…