Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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North Korea: Surfing the Net in the World's Most Isolated Nation
What's the point of a computer in a hermit country sealed off from the internet?
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Could Robots Become Too Cute For Comfort?
Would you share your innermost secret with a robot?
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How Humans Could Inhabit the Solar System
With our rising planet's population competing for space and resources, some people are convinced we need to look beyond Earth to help ensure humanity's survival...
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Cyborgs: The Truth About Human Augmentation
At the height of summer, when London was baking in unseasonable heat, I made an ill-fated trip to the Serpentine lido in central London.
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Why Is Science Fiction So Hard to Define?
Time Out, the weekly listings magazine, recently ranked the 100 best sci-fi movies of all time.
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What Would Happen If All Satellites Stopped Working?
We may not always realise it, but we depend on space technology orbiting the Earth.
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Alan Turing: Is He Really the Father of Computing?
When Alan Turing arrived to start work at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington, south-west London, he was 33 years old. It was October 1945 and he was...
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How I Traced My Ancestry Back to the Stone Age
I recently had a genetic test to find out more about where my ancestors came from.
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Rethinking the Social Network
At some point later this year, Facebook will connect one in every seven people on the planet. When it passes the billion user mark—and really it is a question of...
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The Birth of a .k. Tech Giant
British chip designer ARM will soon be 20 years old. Bill Thompson was there at the start.12