Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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How Big Data Carried Graph Theory into New Dimensions
Researchers are turning to the mathematics of higher-order interactions to better model complex connections in data
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Now That Machines Can Learn, Can They Unlearn?
Researchers are testing whether they can remove sensitive data without retraining AI systems from scratch
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How to Do Machine Learning without an Army of Data Scientists
Machine learning is still harder than it needs to be, but there are tools that can help
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How AI Struggles with Bike Lanes and Bias
Despite continued advances in AI, we still haven't solved some of its most basic problems
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Embodied AI, Superintelligence, and the Master Algorithm
What will take us from potential to reality in the next 18 months?
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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 Privacy Battle that Apple Isn't Fighting
California has begun enforcing a browser-level privacy setting, but you still can't find that option in Safari or iOS
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What Do Developers Want and Need from Secure Coding Training?
There is still confusion about the role developers play in software security
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A European Union Approach to Regulating Big Tech
Considering a new regulatory proposal for addressing digital market competition concerns.
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In Praise of the Disassembler
There is much to be learned from the lower-level details of hardware.
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Responsible AI: Bridging From Ethics to Practice
Recommendations for increasing the benefits of artificial intelligence technologies.
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Science Needs to Engage With Society: Some Lessons From COVID-19
Recent experiences toward communicating science to the general public.
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With Internet Shutdowns, India Is Violating a 'Duty to Memory'
The shutdowns, aimed at quelling unrest, undercut the nation's moral and ethical obligation to record history as it is.
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Why Machine Learning Can't Understand Human Language
While larger deep neural networks can incrementally improveme specific tasks, they aren't fit for general natural language understanding.
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Kubernetes Magic Is in Enterprise Standardization, Not App Portability
Kubernetes isn't going to magically make your applications portable, but it just might give you something even better.
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If You Say 'Science Is Right,' You're Wrong
It can't supply absolute truths about the world, but it brings us steadily closer.
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What OpenAI and GitHub's AI Pair Programmer Means for the Software Industry
AI-powered code generator provides some interesting hints about the business of large language models and the future of the software industry.
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Building Artificial Intelligence: Reward Is Not Enough
Rewards are not enough to build artificial intelligence, says data scientist Herbert Roitblat, countering claims from a recent paper by DeepMind scientists.
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Tesla AI Chief Says Self-Driving Cars Don't Need Lidar
Andrej Karpathy shares why the company still believes in a purely vision-based autonomous driving solution.
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