Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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There's No Good Decision in the Next Big Data Privacy Case
In 2013, United States agents served a warrant on Microsoft seeking the emails of a suspect in a drug case.
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Social Agents: Bridging Simulation and Engineering
Seeking better integration of two research communities.
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Pay What You Want as a Pricing Model For Open Access Publishing?
Analyzing the "Pay What You Want" business model for open access publishing.
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Keeping the Machinery in Computing Education
Incorporating intellectual and developmental frameworks into a Scottish school curriculum.
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Engaging the Ethics of Data Science in Practice
Seeking more common ground between data scientists and their critics.
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Disgorging Profits in Design Patent Cases
Does the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Apple v. Samsung case represent a quagmire?
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Driverless Cars Made Me Nervous. Then I Tried One.
On my fourth day in a semi-driverless car, I finally felt comfortable enough to let it stop itself.
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Computing and the Fermi Paradox: A New Idea Emerges--The Aliens Are All Asleep
Anders Sandberg and Stuart Armstrong of the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, working with Milan Ćirković of the University of Novi Sad in Serbia...
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The Supreme Court Is Allergic to Math
The Supreme Court does not compute. Or at least some of its members would rather not. The justices, the most powerful jurists in the land, seem to have a reluctance—even...
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Will AI and Blockchain Be Game-Changers?
This week saw another major achievement by Google's Deep Mind, when it showed that a neural network could learn to play Go in just three days, without even looking...
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Andrew Ng Has a Chatbot That Can Help with Depression
I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but I've been seeing a virtual therapist.
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The 15 Most Influential Websites of All Time
The web, or "world wide web" as we used to say, turns 27 years old on December 20. On that date, nearly three decades ago, British engineer and scientist Tim Berners...
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Kitchen of the Future: Smart and Fast but Not Much Fun
Wandering among the engineers and strategy directors and managers of something called "connected customer experience" at the Smart Kitchen Summit, one had to wonder...
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Provoking Iran Could Have nseen Cyber Consequences
On Friday, President Trump announced that he will not certify Iran's cooperation with the 2015 nuclear agreement negotiated by the Obama Administration.
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Would You Buy a Self-Driving Future From These Guys?
When the owner of an automated Tesla was killed in a crash last year, the carmaker's founder, Elon Musk, urged journalists to peer into the future.
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The Future of Dna Sequencing
Forty years ago, two papers1, 2 described the first tractable methods for determining the order of the chemical bases in stretches of DNA. Before these 1977 publications...
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The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions
We are surrounded by hysteria about the future of artificial intelligence and robotics—hysteria about how powerful they will become, how quickly, and what they...
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What Facebook Did to American Democracy
In the media world, as in so many other realms, there is a sharp discontinuity in the timeline: before the 2016 election, and after.
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Is Your Bank Data Yours?
Who owns the information in your bank account? Transactions, balance history, every other detail?
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