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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.

Duped No More: Navigating the Maze of Social Engineering Schemes
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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...

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...

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.

Automated Tests Are the Safety Net
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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.

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?

An Organizational Perspective on the Process of Adopting Executable Exams
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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...

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...

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.

Exponential Protests
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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.

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.
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