Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Don't Let Statistics Ruin Baseball
One of the charms of baseball, which started up again this week, is the exhilarating departure it offers from the noisy bustle of daily life.
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Karen, an App That Knows You All Too Well
Thinking about a life coach but not ready to commit to the real thing?
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Even Computers Are nsure About Their March Madness Brackets
By this point of March Madness, with three games left in the men's NCAA basketball tournament, most brackets are busted.
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Why Shades of Asperger's Syndrome Are the Secret to Building a Great Tech Company
The individuals who have founded some of the most success tech companies are decidedly weird.
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Is 'making a Game Out of Learning' Bad For Learning?
In MIT's Education Arcade, classic game consoles line the office corridor, rafters are strung with holiday lights, and inflatable, stuffed and papier-maché creatures...
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Toolkits For the Mind
When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...
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A New Way to Navigate the Streets of Google Maps
Today we're introducing our most ambitious update yet: PAC-Maps.
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Germanwings Flight 9525, Technology, and the Question of Trust
Shortly before the dreadful crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, I happened to be reading part of "The Second Machine Age," a book by two academics at M.I.T., Erik...
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David and Goliath: What Do We Do About Surveillance?
"Dear subscriber, you have been registered as a participant in a mass disturbance."
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Learning to See Data
For the past year or so genetic scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have been collaborating with a specialist from another universe...
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How Technology Is Making S Tip More Than Ever
By now, you've probably experienced it: After grabbing a cup of espresso, buying some ice cream or taking a cab, you swipe your credit card and prepare to sign—but...
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What If Web Search Results Were Based on Accuracy?
Imagine, for a moment, that every Web search gave only accurate, verified information.
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Mathematicians of the Future?
Herbert Simon, the Nobel-prize winning economist, was a techno-enthusiast. In 1956 he predicted that, "within 10 years, computers would beat the world chess champion...
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Who Builds a House Without Drawing Blueprints?
Finding a better solution by thinking about the problem and its solution, rather than just thinking about the code.
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An Interview with Juris Hartmanis
A pioneer in the field of computational complexity theory reflects on his career.
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The Math of March Madness
The N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament started Thursday, but for most Americans the real action began days before, as they pored over brackets, competing to make...
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Reality Check: Comparing Hololens and Magic Leap
I've seen two competing visions for a future in which virtual objects are merged seamlessly with the real world.
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Why Some of Google's Coolest Projects Flop Badly
In public, companies try to trot out any hint of a success story—real or imagined. At SXSW this week, Google took a different tack: It talked all about its failures...
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