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29.03.2023.02.04.2023.

Tech experts raise petition to halt Artificial Intelligence development

Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and other well-known high-tech figures and industry leaders have signed an open letter requesting that the Artificial Intelligence industry take a six-month break to allow for the development of safety protocols for the technology.

AI is surpassing human performance in many domains and tasks

The Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to “steering transformative technologies away from extreme, large-scale risks and towards benefiting life,” drafted the letter, which as of early Thursday had been signed by nearly 1,400 people. The group acknowledged that AI technology is quickly advancing and that it has surpassed human performance in many domains in the letter. The letter cites the GPT-4 program, created by San Francisco-based OpenAI, as a cause for alarm in light of its recent introduction. Read more at Peoples Gazette: link.

20.03.2023.20.03.2024.

Call for the offers for the procurement of the equipment for HPC4S3ME

The private institution University of Donja Gorica invites you to take part in the process of submitting bids for the selection of the most favorable supplier for the procurement of equipment for the University of Donja Gorica (UDG) for the purposes of realizing “Scientific potential in support of innovation development” EuropeAid/172351/ID/ACT/ME, HPC4S3ME- Building scientific and innovative potential for using HPC and AI for S3 Smart specialization in Montenegro, CFCU/MNE/213.

The link with more information and the call is posted at the UDG website: link.

The tender was advertised in daily news paper Pobjeda

16.02.2023.28.02.2023.

HPC4S3ME presented at IEEE IT2023

HPC4S3ME project was presented by prof. dr Tomo Popovic and doc. dr. Luka Filipovic at the 27th IEEE International Conference – Information Technology – IT2023. The conference had a special session dedicated to presentation of project results for the projects implemented in Montenegro and the region. The conference program is available at the following link.

The project presented by prof. dr Tomo Popovic and doc. dr Luka Filipovic

Proposing the use of HPC and AI for research in Montenegrin S3 priority domains

The project was presented in the conference session dedicated to EU projects

10.02.2023.01.03.2023.

What is S3 Montenegro?

Modernization and increasing the competitiveness of the Montenegrin economy, by concentrating available research, natural and economic resources on a limited number of priority areas. S3 should enable further accelerated development of the relevant priority areas, but also the development of new sub-areas within them, as well as new industries with strategic potential based on the synergistic interaction of priority areas. Achieving the main goal of S3, i.e. a modernized and competitive Montenegro, is based on three key strategic directions that represent the general long-term vision of the country’s development, namely healthy, sustainable and digital Montenegro.

The main priority domains identified in Montenegrin S3 are:

Sustainable agriculture and food value chain
Energy and sustainable environment
Health and tourism
Information and communication technology as a horizontal priority.

Click on image to open the official S3 Montenegro website

05.01.2023.22.03.2023.

Official project start

HPC4S3M project officially started on January 1, 2023. UDG signed the contract the documents provided by the Directorate for Financing and Contracting of EU Assistance Funds (CFCU) within the Ministry of Finance. The HPC4S3ME project is one of 9 projects funded by the European Union through the IPA II Project Financing within the framework of the public call for proposals “Scientific potential in support of innovation development”.