Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Towards a Conversational Agent that Can Chat About…Anything
In "Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot", we present Meena, a 2.6-billion-parameter end-to-end trained neural conversational model.
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Numbers Are for Computers, Strings Are for Humans
How and where software should translate data into a human-readable form.
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Are We Losing Momentum?
Estimating when the second half of the world will come online.
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A* Search: What's in a Name?
A search for algorithmic answers returns unique results.
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Increasing Automation in Policing
Seeking the delicate balance between civil liberties and policing public safety.
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Stop Saying Driverless Cars Will Help Old People
And maybe start including them in research instead of just assuming we know what they want.
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Uncertainty
Considering how to best navigate stability and randomness.
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Removing the Risk of AI Bias in the Public Sector
What practical steps can be taken to drive ethical, unbiased AI use in the public sector?
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Why Google's Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters
Quantum computing is the first computing paradigm since Turing expected to change the fundamental scaling behavior of algorithms, making certain tasks feasible...
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50 Years Ago, I Helped Invent the Internet. How Did It Go So Wrong?
We did not anticipate that the dark side of the Internet would emerge with such ferocity. Or that we would feel an urgent need to fix it.
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Algorithms, Platforms, and Ethnic Bias
How computing platforms and algorithms can potentially either reinforce or identify and address ethnic biases.
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An Interview with Leonard Kleinrock
The UCLA professor and networking pioneer reflects on his career in industry and academia.
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Are We Witnessing A New Sputnik Moment In IT?
Google's engineers have succeeded in designing a quantum computer which, for the first time ever, has solved a problem a conventional computer is not able to. Are...
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Asimov's Three Laws Have Failed the Robots
Almost no one thinks that Isaac Asimov's Three Laws could work for truly intelligent AI.
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How Might We Increase System Trustworthiness?
Summarizing some of the changes that seem increasingly necessary to address known system and network deficiencies and anticipate currently unknown vulnerabilities...
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The Cloud as an Innovation Platform for Software Development
How cloud computing became a platform.
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Hackers Needed To Defeat Hackers
In an online world infested with hackers, we need more hackers.
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