acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

News


bg-corner

An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.


How Can We Stop Algorithms Telling Lies?
From ACM News

How Can We Stop Algorithms Telling Lies?

Algorithms can dictate whether you get a mortgage or how much you pay for insurance. But sometimes they're wrong – and sometimes they are designed to deceive.

Wheelchairs Get Robotic Retrofit to Become Self-Driving
From ACM TechNews

Wheelchairs Get Robotic Retrofit to Become Self-Driving

Researchers have used sensors and artificial intelligence to create self-driving electric wheelchairs.

Watch 3-D Movies at Home, Sans Glasses
From ACM TechNews

Watch 3-D Movies at Home, Sans Glasses

"Home3D" allows users to watch three-dimensional movies without wearing special glasses.

This Deep Learning AI Generated Thousands of Creepy Cat Pictures
From ACM TechNews

This Deep Learning AI Generated Thousands of Creepy Cat Pictures

The Meow Generator is a collection of machine-learning algorithms that have created more than 15,000 disturbing cat faces.

Elon Musk Lays Out Worst-Case Scenario For AI Threat
From ACM News

Elon Musk Lays Out Worst-Case Scenario For AI Threat

Powerful technology will threaten all human jobs, could even spark a war, Tesla CEO says.

Intel, While Pivoting to Artificial Intelligence, Tries to Protect Lead
From ACM Careers

Intel, While Pivoting to Artificial Intelligence, Tries to Protect Lead

The computers in modern data centers—the engine rooms of the digital economy—are powered mainly by Intel chips.

Iran's Newest Robot Is an Adorable Dancing Humanoid
From ACM TechNews

Iran's Newest Robot Is an Adorable Dancing Humanoid

Researchers at the University of Tehran have developed Surena Mini, a small robot with a 3D-printed body, articulated limbs, and a round head with two camera-eyes...

Your Best Teammate Might Someday Be an Algorithm
From ACM TechNews

Your Best Teammate Might Someday Be an Algorithm

Google's People + AI Research (PAIR) project aims to develop and release tools designed to help make the inner workings of artificial intelligence systems more...

­a Pioneers More Effective Control For Border Patrol
From ACM TechNews

­a Pioneers More Effective Control For Border Patrol

Researchers are developing a framework for border surveillance that uses artificial intelligence to integrate data from different sources and respond in real time...

AI Research Seeks to Grow Trust Between Humans and Computers
From ACM TechNews

AI Research Seeks to Grow Trust Between Humans and Computers

Researchers have received a $7.55-million grant to find new ways to have artificial intelligence explain its decision-making process to human users.

Neural Network Poetry Is So Bad We Think It's Written By Humans
From ACM TechNews

Neural Network Poetry Is So Bad We Think It's Written By Humans

A neural network trained on poetry has attempted to write its own lines; ts best efforts can convince people they are reading the words of a human poet.

Intelligent Machines Are Asked to Explain How Their Minds Work
From ACM TechNews

Intelligent Machines Are Asked to Explain How Their Minds Work

Researchers are trying to teach intelligent machines to explain, in human terms, how their minds work.

Adding Humanity to Smart Machines
From ACM News

Adding Humanity to Smart Machines

A chat with former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov about his new book, machine intelligence, and human creativity.

Ai, People, and Society
From ACM News

Ai, People, and Society

Isaac Asimov's stories about the relationship between people and robots were only a few years old when the phrase "artificial intelligence" was used in a 1955 study...

Two Giants of AI Team ­p to Head Off the Robot Apocalypse
From ACM News

Two Giants of AI Team ­p to Head Off the Robot Apocalypse

There's nothing new about worrying that superintelligent machines may endanger humanity, but the idea has lately become hard to avoid.

Peering Inside an Ai's Brain Will Help ­S Trust Its Decisions
From ACM News

Peering Inside an Ai's Brain Will Help ­S Trust Its Decisions

Oi, AI—What do you think you're looking at? Understanding why machine learning algorithms can be tricked into seeing things that aren't there is becoming more important...

How AI Detectives Are Cracking Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
From ACM News

How AI Detectives Are Cracking Open the Black Box of Deep Learning

Loosely modeled after the brain, deep neural networks are spurring innovation across science.

Robocalypse Now? Central Bankers Argue Whether Automation Will Kill Jobs
From ACM News

Robocalypse Now? Central Bankers Argue Whether Automation Will Kill Jobs

The rise of robots has long been a topic for sci-fi best sellers and video games and, as of this week, a threat officially taken seriously by central bankers.

Light-Powered Computers Brighten Ai's Future
From ACM News

Light-Powered Computers Brighten Ai's Future

The idea of building a computer that uses light rather than electricity goes back more than half a century.

AI Will Prepare Robots For the ­nknown
From ACM TechNews

AI Will Prepare Robots For the ­nknown

Researchers suggest artificial intelligence could greatly benefit robotic exploratory spacecraft by giving them autonomy.
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account