Communications of the ACM
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July 2023
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AI Luggage for People with Visual Impairments Nets Rave Reviews
The AI Suitcase offers features that surpass those of traditional smartphone guidance systems, providing enhanced safety and environmental awareness.
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Why Meta is Giving Away its Extremely Powerful AI Model
The AI debate splitting the tech world, explained.
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The Robots We Were Afraid of Are Already Here
The long-anticipated automation revolution has begun. Robots are ready to operate forklifts and do laundry. It's not as scary as it sounds.
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U.S. Hunts Chinese Malware That Could Disrupt American Military Operations
American intelligence officials believe the malware could give China the power to disrupt or slow American deployments or resupply operations, including during a Chinese move against Taiwan.
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OpenAI Discontinues Its AI Writing Detector Due to 'Low Rate of Accuracy'
Research shows that any AI writing detector can be defeated—and false positives abound.
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Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google's Robots Are Getting Smart
Our sneak peek into Google's new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots.
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How Researchers Broke ChatGPT and What It Could Mean for Future AI Development
Researchers bypassed the safety guardrails for ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude with a series of adversarial attacks.
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AI Helps Scientists Eavesdrop on Endangered Pink Dolphin
Acoustic tracking technology could feed into conservation projects in the Amazon and beyond.
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Small Business Owners Embrace the Future – Majority Say They Will Adopt Generative AI
Survey shows two out of three business owners will try the technology in the next 12 months; 44% expect to hire fewer people due to AI.
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Breakthrough in Monte Carlo Computer Simulations
A new algorithm uses Monte Carlo computer simulations more efficiently to explore nonequilibrium systems with long-range interactions.
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Using Cameras on Transit Buses to Monitor Traffic
Ohio State University researchers monitored traffic using cameras already installed on the Campus Area Bus Service's transit buses.
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Laser Mapping Reveals Forgotten Maya City
Laser-mapping technology uncovered a long-lost Mayan city in the jungles of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
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Researchers Poke Holes in Safety Controls of ChatGPT and Other Chatbots
A new report indicates that the guardrails for widely used chatbots can be thwarted, leading to an increasingly unpredictable environment for the technology.
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The SEC is Giving Companies Four Days to Report Cyberattacks
Critics question whether the new rules might do more harm than good.
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This Tool could Protect Your Pictures from AI Manipulation
PhotoGuard, created by researchers at MIT, alters photos in ways that are imperceptible to us but stops AI systems from tinkering with them.
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Robot Boosts Solar Energy Research
Scientists developed a new robot for advancing semiconductor materials discovery.
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That's Funny—but AI Models Don't Get the Joke
A multi-institutional team of scientists tested artificial intelligence models' ability to understand humor.
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At Wagner's Festival, New Technology Reveals a Leadership Rift
The use of augmented reality in a production of the opera "Parsifal" opening Germany's Bayreuth Festival has incited a financial and philosophical dispute.
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Stretchy Integrated Electronics May Be Possible with Sandwiched Semiconductor
An international research team engineered a sandwiched semiconductor to provide elasticity to integrated electronics.
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Getting to the Root of the Problem In Tree Digital Twin Models
A new computational model simulates the coordinated three-dimensional development of trees and their roots.
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Researchers Demonstrate 'Unconditionally Secure' Quantum Digital Payments
The research represents a possible breakthrough in quantum communications and, potentially, the onset of the era of quantum fintech.
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Concerns Grow about MFA Bypass Attacks
Cybercriminals increasingly are using specially crafted attacks to bypass Multi-Factor authentication.
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The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here
Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a U.S. Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare for the next age of conflict.
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Creatives Are Fighting Back Against AI with Lawsuits
Will legal action force AI companies to change how they train their programs?
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Cleaning Up with TidyBot
A multi-institutional team of engineers mated a mobile robotic arm to a vision model and a large language model to create the TidyBot cleaning robot.
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How Hacking Honeybees Brings AI Closer to the Hive
Computer scientists have developed a new form of decision-making machine intelligence by analyzing the brains of honeybees.
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Impersonation Detection Feature Safeguards Brands, Personalities from Fake Accounts on Social Media
A Canadian firm has incorproated an impersonation protection feature into its social media monitoring platform.
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'A Certain Danger Lurks There': How the Inventor of the First Chatbot Turned Against AI
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans.
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The ESRB Wants to Start Using Facial Scanning Technology to Check People's Ages
The FTC is now seeking public feedback on the ESRB's proposal.
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A New Chemistry
Oxygen-ion batteries power forward.