Communications of the ACM
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February 2024
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If We Could Talk to the Animals
Can artificial intelligence overcome the communication barriers between species?
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Beijing Unveils AI Child
Tong Tong, billed as the world’s first virtual AI child, was unveiled at an exhibition held in Beijing in late January.
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FBI Shuts Down China's 'Volt Typhoon' Hackers Targeting U.S. Infrastructure
During a U.S. House committee hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray disclosed that his agency had shut down the China-backed hacking group known as "Volt Typhoon."
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India Tells Tech Giants to Police Deepfakes
As India prepares for a general election this year, a government official said social media companies will be held accountable for AI-generated deepfakes on their platforms.
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OpenAI and Other Tech Giants Will Have to Warn the U.S. Government When They Start New AI Projects
The Biden administration is using the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI algorithms.
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EU Countries Give Crucial Nod to Artificial Intelligence Law
Ambassadors of the 27 countries of the European Union unanimously approved the world's first comprehensive rulebook for Artificial Intelligence.
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Bengio Urges Canada to Build Public Supercomputer
ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Yoshua Bengio says Canada should make supercomputers available to public entities so they can keep pace with private companies in AI development.
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Japan Bids Sayonara to the 3.5" Floppy Disk
Japan's rules for the submission of official documents to the government no longer mention physical media like floppy disks, CD-ROMs, or other "electronic recording media."
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Smart Hat Senses When Traffic Lights Change
Flexible conductive fibers can cool and contract without producing stress cracks, permitting them to be woven into cotton clothing.
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Cyberattack Hits Georgia County Where Trump Is Charged
Fulton County, GA, experienced a cyberattack over the weekend that affected its court, tax, firearms, and marriage-license systems.
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ChatGPT Violated European Privacy Laws, Italy Tells OpenAI
Italy's data protection authority told OpenAI that its ChatGPT AI chatbot violated the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
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Robot Trained to Read Braille at Twice the Speed of Humans
A robotic sensor developed by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Cambridge and trained using machine learning algorithms can read braille about twice as fast as human readers.
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NASA Selects Winners of Third TechRise Student Challenge
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration named 60 winning teams for its third TechRise Student Challenge.
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Mitigating Urban Climate Change
Making cities greener takes more than just planting trees.
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Virtual Reality as Therapy
Leveraging precisely designed alternate realities as therapeutic tools.
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Algorithmic Advance: The Group Isomorphism Problem
Exploring a potential way to immensely speed up algorithms for the group isomorphism problem.
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Teaching Transformed
The apparent ability of LLMs to write functioning source code has caused celebration over the potential for massive increases in programmer productivity and consternation among teachers.