Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Banning ChatGPT Will Do More Harm than Good
A high school senior argues that generative AI can help reshape education for the better.
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Why You Should Not Trust AI Search Engines
The technology is simply not ready to be used like this at this scale.
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AI Is Creating a New Colonial World Order
Artificial intelligence is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before.
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2021 Was the Year of Monster AI Models
GPT-3 kicked off a new trend in AI for bigger and bigger models, but how large will they get?
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How AI Is Reinventing What Computers Are
Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute
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The Voices of Women in Tech Are Still Being Erased
Women in computing have been silenced more often than they've been listened to
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Taxing Digital Advertising Could Help Break Up Big Tech
A novel approach to rein in the largest technology companies, encourage competition and innovation, and help democracy
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The Coming Productivity Boom
AI and other digital technologies have been surprisingly slow to improve economic growth. But that could be about to change.
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The Field of Natural Language Processing is Chasing the Wrong Goal
Researchers are too focused on whether AI systems can ace tests of dubious value. They should be testing whether systems grasp how the world works.
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Here’s One Way to Make Daily Covid-19 Testing Feasible on a Mass Scale
Pooling tests with the help of machine learning can allow us to safely reopen without a vaccine.
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How to Know if Artificial Intelligence is About to Destroy Civilization
These canaries in the coal mines of AI would be signs that superintelligent robot overlords are approaching.
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The AI Community Needs fo Take Responsibility for Its Technology and Its Actions
Celeste Kidd, a cognitive psychologist, challenged the audience to think critically about the future they want to build.
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AI Researchers Need to Stop Hiding the Climate Toll of Their Work
Researchers are sounding the alarm about the surprisingly large carbon footprint of the computations required for deep learning.
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Here Are 10 Ways AI Could Help Fight Climate Change
An international team of 22 big name AI researchers have laid out a road map suggesting how machine learning can help save the planet and humanity from imminent...
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A Second 737 Max Crash Raises Questions about Airplane Automation
As you read this, over a million people are in flight. Close to a third of the commercial airplanes in the sky at any given moment are Boeing 737s: it is the best...
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This Is Why AI Has Yet to Reshape Most Businesses
The art of making perfumes and colognes hasn't changed much since the 1880s, when synthetic ingredients began to be used.
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Never Mind Killer Robots; Here Are Six Real AI Dangers to Watch Out for in 2019
Once it was fashionable to fret about the prospect of super-intelligent machines taking over the world. The past year showed that AI may cause all sorts of hazards...
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Fake America Great Again
Guess what? I just got hold of some embarrassing video footage of Texas senator Ted Cruz singing and gyrating to Tina Turner. His political enemies will have great...
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