Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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A Worthwhile Contest For Artificial Intelligence
If IBM's Watson machine defeats people on TV's Jeopardy this week, does that mean that computers are smarter than humans? Maybe not. But the performance could...
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Mind vs. Machine
In the race to build computers that can think like humans, the proving ground is the Turing Test—an annual battle between the world’s most advanced artificial...
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What Is Artificial Intelligence?
In the category "What Do You Know?," for $1 million: This four-year-old upstart the size of a small R.V. has digested 200 million pages of data about everything...
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Hackers Find New Way to Cheat on Wall Street
High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in microseconds, are vulnerable to manipulation by hackers who can inject tiny amounts...
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IBM's Single-Processor Supercomputer Efforts
Imagine a CPU designed to issue and execute up to seven instructions per clock cycle, with a clock rate 10 times faster than the reigning supercomputer. This is...
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What We're Driving At
Larry and Sergey founded Google because they wanted to help solve really big problems using technology. And one of the big problems we’re working on today is...
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Robots vs. Suicide Terrorists
In February 2008, a pair of suicide bombers struck the Israeli town of Dimona. One of the attackers detonated his explosive vest, killing an Israeli, and injuring...
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Google's Earth
"I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions," said the search giant's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial...
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The First Church of Robotics
This constant stream of stories about artificial intelligence suggests that machines are becoming smart and autonomous, a new form of life, and that we should...
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Rights For Autonomous Artificial Agents?
The growing role of artificial agents necessitates modifying legal frameworks to better address human interests.
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Preparing Computer Science Students For the Robotics Revolution
Robotics will inspire dramatic changes in the CS curriculum.
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Is Computer Science Truly Scientific?
Reflections on the (experimental) scientific method in computer science.
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Work Life in the Robotic Age
Technological change results in changes in expectations, in this case affecting the workplace.
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Why Minority Report Was Spot On
The launch of Microsoft's new Kinect games system, which allows players to run, jump, punch and shoot without having to wear strange clothing or hold any kind of...
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My (brief) Life as a Robot
On Wednesday I attended a Silicon Valley press conference dressed as a robot. Actually I was physically in New York City and virtually in Menlo Park, Calif. For...
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The Resurgence of Parallelism
Parallel computation is making a comeback after a quarter century of neglect. Past research can be put to quick use today.
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How the .s. Military Can Win the Robotic Revolution
One of the great conundrums of war and technology is the odd fact that there is no such thing as a permanent first-mover advantage.
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The Cyborg Insects Are Coming!
Telepathic helmets. Grid-computing swarms of cyborg insects, some for surveillance, some with lethal stingers. New cognitive-enhancement drugs. (What? AdderallProvigil...
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Rest in Peas: The nrecognized Death of Speech Recognition
The accuracy of computer speech recognition flat-lined in 2001, before reaching human levels. The funding plug was pulled, but no funeral, no text-to-speech eulogy...
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