Communications of the ACM
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February 2023
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Microsoft's ChatGPT-Powered Bing Reveals Its Codename and Rules, Argues With Users
Bing Chat reveals its codename and many of the rules for how it should respond to prompts.
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Ingestible Sensor Could Help Doctors Pinpoint GI Difficulties
An ingestible sensor can be monitored as it travels through the digestive tract, helping doctors to diagnose gastrointestinal ailments more precisely.
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The 'Flip-Flop' Qubit: Realization of Quantum Bit in Silicon Controlled by Electric Signals
Andrea Morello, Rostyslav Savytskyy, and Tim Botzem at Australia's University of New South Wales, Sydney demonstrated an electrically controlled "flip-flop" quantum bit (qubit).
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Surfing the Research Data Wave
A new data exchange format aims to provide a means for accessing and reusing large volumes of complex research data.
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Combating Disinformation Wanes at Social Media Giants
As the companies have shed jobs recently, many teams assigned to combat false and misleading information have taken a hit.
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Google Fiber's 5-gig Internet Service Starts Rolling Out in Three Cities
Google's Fiber home internet service now has a bidirectional 5 Gbps option in Kansas City, West Des Moines, and the Salt Lake City metropolitan area.
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The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT's Stunning Results on the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam
The AI software was able to achieve passing scores for the exam, which usually requires years of medical training.
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Undersea Fiber-Optic Cables Can Help Predict Earthquakes
An international team of researchers at Israel's Hebrew University of Jerusalem found undersea fiber-optic cables can detect earthquakes occurring at sea 30 seconds earlier than standard methods.
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AI Tech Enables Industrial-Scale Intellectual-Property Theft, Say Critics
Grzegorz Rutkowski has become one of the most popular artists to copy using image-generating artificial intelligence systems like OpenAI's Dall-E 2 and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion.
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Team Refines Precision of Medical Needles in Surgical Simulation
Computationally efficient mathematical models aim to improve the accuracy of flexible medical needles used in surgical simulation without adding unnecessary steps.
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Computing Guru Criticizes ChatGPT AI Tech for Making Things Up
Vint Cerf, who helped create the Internet's core network technology, hopes engineers can improve artificial intelligence's shortcoming.
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Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine
The former Google CEO is on a mission to rewire the U.S. military with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to take on China. Will it make the world safer?
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The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret
Integrating large language models into search engines could mean a fivefold increase in computing power and huge carbon emissions.
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Ambient IoT Gets Down to Business
Highly flexible, inexpensive low-energy sensors combined with pervasive connectivity and artificial intelligence deliver real-time triggers without human intervention.
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Why You Shouldn't Trust AI Search Engines
The technology is simply not ready to be used like this at this scale.
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Jury Rules that NFTs Aren't Really Art
Better luck next time, NFT bros.
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Why Are You Seeing So Many Bad Digital Ads Now?
Scrolling past ads has rarely been enjoyable. But in recent months, people say the experience seems so much worse.
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Creating 3D Objects with Sound
Scientists have created a technique for assembling three-dimensional (3D) objects using ultrasound.
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3D Modeling Tool Recreates a Landscape's Digital Twin
An automated framework developed by Charalambos Poullis and Qiao Chen at Canada's Concordia University can three-dimensionally (3D)-simulate large-scale landscapes.
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Sports Illustrated Publisher Taps AI to Generate Articles, Story Ideas
Sports Illustrated publisher Arena Group is investing in AI to help produce articles and suggest story ideas through partnerships with AI startups Jasper and Nota, and ChatGPT creator OpenAI.
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Major Quantum Computing Breakthrough Could Mean the Revolution Is Here
Preventing data degradation means the technology might be viable after all as world records are set.
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Researchers Discover a More Flexible Approach to Machine Learning
"Liquid" neural nets, based on a worm's nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability.
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Japan Rolls Out 'Humble, Lovable' Delivery Robots
Japanese robotics companies are testing autonomous delivery robots to address a shortage of delivery workers.
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Digital Twin for Intense Weather Gives Scientists 'Control Loop'
Scientists at Cerebras and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory said they can model extreme weather by accelerating field equations.
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Algorithm Detects Autism in Infants
Duke University researchers trained an algorithm to detect signs of autism in infants.
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TikTok Reveals Russian Disinformation Network Targeting European Users
Accounts spread anti-Ukrainian messages in local languages.
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The People Onscreen Are Fake. The Disinformation Is Real
Computer-generated avatars created by artificial intelligence software are being used by pro-China bot accounts as part of state-aligned disinformation campaigns.
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Harvard Shutting Down Project Studying Social Media Misinformation
Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government announced that next year it will close a research facility that studied online misinformation.
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You Know What's Cool? A 3D-Printing Factory
The Freeform Future startup aims to establish automated three-dimensional (3D) printing plants that mass-produce products from metal powders using laser arrays.
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U.S., EU to Launch First-of-Its-Kind AI Agreement
An artificial intelligence agreement between the U.S. and EU aims to improve a variety of fields by speeding and enhancing use of the technology.