Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Want to See in the Dark? One Day They'll Have an App For That
The combination of man and machine has been so entrenched in our popular culture that for many, the idea that you could attach a sensor to a mouse brain which enables...
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The Value of Microprocessor Designs
Applying a centuries-old technique to modern cost estimation.
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Talking, Walking Objects
Meeting Simon for the first time was one of the most sublime experiences I've had. With every coy head nod, casual hand wave and deep eye gaze, I felt he already...
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Why Subtraction Is the Hardest Math in Product Design
Simple doesn't just sell, it sticks.
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What Makes a Mind? Kurzweil and Google May Be Surprised
After writing about Ray Kurzweil’s ambitious plan to create a super-intelligent personal assistant in his new job at Google (see "Ray Kurzweil Plans to Create a...
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The Trouble With Tinkering Time
It's the latest R&D trend: penciling in tinkering time on the company clock.
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What the Baseball Hall of Fame Decision Could Mean For the Singularity
If you buy into Ray Kurzweil's vision of the Singularity, then the future is a marvelous place where we’re all physically and mentally enhanced and living longer...
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How to Design a Better World
When I was young, my teachers praised me for being good at math and art, but my father would always tell people, "You know, John is good at math."
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The Father of Fractals
In nature,technology and art the most common form of regularity is repetition: a single element repeated many times, as on a tile floor. But another form is possible...
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Quantum Networks May Be More Realistic Than We Thought
The nice thing about buzzwords, though, is that some people take them seriously while also recognizing the problems inherent to the idea.
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Red Pill, Blue Pill: Is the niverse Just a Giant Computer Simulation?
I've started making my way (skeptically) through Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind, and at the recommendation of a friend, I've also started keeping tabs on ...
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5 Reasons We May Live in a Multiverse
The universe we live in may not be the only one out there. In fact, our universe could be just one of an infinite number of universes making up a "multiverse."
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Alan Turing Remembered
A unique firsthand account of formative experiences with Alan Turing.
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Moods
Recognizing and working with moods — your own, your team's, and your customers' — is essential to professional success.
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Can More Code Mean Fewer Bugs?
The bytes you save today may bite you tomorrow.
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How Far Away Is Mind-Machine Integration?
Okay, great: we can control our phones with speech recognition and our television sets with gesture recognition.
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This Is Your Brain on Neural Implants
You are in the future with technologies more advanced than today's.
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