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Federated Learning: How Private Is It Really?
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Federated Learning: How Private Is It Really?

Just when it looks like Federated Learning is able to keep local data private, out comes a study to deflate us.

ChatGPT in Computer Science Education: Freshmen's Perceptions
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ChatGPT in Computer Science Education: Freshmen's Perceptions

Exploring freshmen's conceptions of the impact of ChatGPT on computer science education.

Coaxing Performance from the Complexity of HPC
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Coaxing Performance from the Complexity of HPC

Network latency and HPC performance.

Stop Judging AI Using Human Exams
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Stop Judging AI Using Human Exams

Computer scientists should inform the public that human tests are not a valid way to judge the quality of an AI model, nor a good way to compare AI models to human...

Bigger than a Blackbox
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Bigger than a Blackbox

When we ask how deep learning works, are we asking which node represents the answer to "animal, vegetable, or mineral?"

The Dissemination Game: Incentives of In-Person vs Virtual Participation
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The Dissemination Game: Incentives of In-Person vs Virtual Participation

Incentives are changing the effectiveness of computer science conferences, but perhaps better conference design can improve them.

Why They're Worried
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Why They're Worried

Summarizing experts' motivations for signing the 'Pause Letter.'

Is Bard Better than ChatGPT?
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Is Bard Better than ChatGPT?

A test should show whether Bard is more powerful than ChattGPT or AI-powered Microsoft Bing.

Egalitarian Authorship
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Egalitarian Authorship

Is there a way to provide egalitarian authorship to papers?

Lessons from PL/I:  A Most Ambitious Programming Language
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Lessons from PL/I: A Most Ambitious Programming Language

PL/I stands for Programming Language 1, and its aim was to be the Highlander of programming languages. 

VOT Challenge: Computer Vision Competition
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VOT Challenge: Computer Vision Competition

VOT Challenge is one of the outstanding competitions in computer vision. At the end of this important event this year, I would like to share my opinions about this...

Two Models of AI Oversight — and How Things Could Go Deeply Wrong
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Two Models of AI Oversight — and How Things Could Go Deeply Wrong

It's good that governments are stepping up, but some of the signals are deeply worrisome.

What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?
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What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?

The answers from the AI-powered Microsoft Bing are often useless.

Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners – Part 4
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Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners – Part 4

We believe programming experience is crucial for human resources practitioners in the data and tech era.

How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction
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How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction

Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based on anything we know about science,...

A Turning Point for U.S. AI Policy: Senate Explores Solutions
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A Turning Point for U.S. AI Policy: Senate Explores Solutions

Preparing for the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence.

Creating Organizational Sustainability by Connecting to National Core Values
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Creating Organizational Sustainability by Connecting to National Core Values

The FIRST ISRAEL organization is working to increase its presence in the Israeli geographic periphery by exploiting Israel's social orientation and its strength...

400 Years of Mechanical Calculating Machines
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400 Years of Mechanical Calculating Machines

Germany is celebrating the 400th birthday of Schickard's "calculating clock."

What Can the FATE Community Learn from the Successes and Failures in Privacy?
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What Can the FATE Community Learn from the Successes and Failures in Privacy?

There are many similarities between FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics) and privacy, and I believe that there are a lot of lessons that the FATE...

AI in the Public Interest: Education and Democracy
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AI in the Public Interest: Education and Democracy

Now is a critical time to vigorously pursue public interests in education and to avoid a slippery slide into yielding public governance to an entirely private market...
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