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That Was The Week That Was
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That Was The Week That Was

The last week of October in the year 2023 may be remembered as the week when lawmakers made a real effort to outpace technology.

All Photos are Fake Until Proven Real
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All Photos are Fake Until Proven Real

The blurred lines of photographic reality in the AI Era.

Let's Be Objective about Large Language Models
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Let's Be Objective about Large Language Models

Objective evaluation of the linguistic competency of large language models (LLMs) is of paramount importance as we start contemplating the use of this technology...

Can AI Be Fair?
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Can AI Be Fair?

The ideology or impartiality of artificial intelligence.

Chat Generative Pre-trained... Testimony
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Chat Generative Pre-trained... Testimony

Questions about testimony as a means of knowledge acquisition may apply to AI chatbots.

ChatGPT (and Other Generative AI Applications) as a Disruptive Technology for Computer Science Education: Obsolescence or Reinvention
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ChatGPT (and Other Generative AI Applications) as a Disruptive Technology for Computer Science Education: Obsolescence or Reinvention

Generative AI may turn out to be disruptive technologies for computer science education, but  generative AI can also be conceived of as an opportunity for computer...

Can LLMs Really Reason and Plan?
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Can LLMs Really Reason and Plan?

Nothing in the training and use of LLMs would seem to suggest remotely that they can do any type of principled reasoning.

Ethics and Equity in AI for Collaborative Learning
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Ethics and Equity in AI for Collaborative Learning

In designing collaborative learning, design AI features using realistic examples of students’ learning; support teachers' awareness; develop students' sense of...

How Soon Will AI Start Firing Programmers?
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How Soon Will AI Start Firing Programmers?

Robots will likely revolutionize software engineering ranging from code reviews and bug fixing to automated refactoring, backlog prioritization, and employee appraisals...

Everything. Everywhere. All at Once: AI Policy When Congress Returns
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Everything. Everywhere. All at Once: AI Policy When Congress Returns

Here is a quick take on what to look for in Washington and on the broader AI Policy landscape when Congress returns in September.

Face It, Self-Driving Cars Still Haven't Earned Their Stripes
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Face It, Self-Driving Cars Still Haven't Earned Their Stripes

Edge cases remain a serious, unsolved problem, $100 billion later.

What If Generative AI Turned Out to be a Dud?
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What If Generative AI Turned Out to be a Dud?

Some possible economic and geopolitical implications.

Machine Learning: the Road to Artificial Intelligence?
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Machine Learning: the Road to Artificial Intelligence?

In the mid-1990s, data-driven, statistical, and empirical methods have taken the field of artificial intelligence (AI) by storm. In the last two decades, machine...

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.

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?"

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.

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...

ChatGPT Invents a Lot of Nonsense
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ChatGPT Invents a Lot of Nonsense

I asked ChatGPT who wrote the book "Meilensteine der Rechentechnik." The program returns many different answers, all wrong.
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