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What If Generative AI Turned Out to be a Dud?
Some possible economic and geopolitical implications.
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Duped No More: Navigating the Maze of Social Engineering Schemes
The best way to guard against becoming a target of social engineering is to familiarize yourself with the strategies, psychological hooks, and technological means...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Automated Tests Are the Safety Net
Automated testing in software development significantly diminishes routine work and saves time, allowing programmers to work more effectively.
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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...
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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?"
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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.
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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.
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An Organizational Perspective on the Process of Adopting Executable Exams
We analyze the organizational change that took place at the Technion when the assessment method in the CS1 course changed from paper-based exams to executable exams...
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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.
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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...
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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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Exponential Protests
Exponential organizations offer an appropriate organized structure for the current Israeli protest, and maybe for other cases of civil resistance.
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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.
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