Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
From ACM Opinion
Truly Ethical AI Needs Research to Be Independent from Big Tech
Curb the power of Silicon Valley and protect those who speak up about the harms of AI
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Why We Must Rethink AI Benchmarks
While helpful in comparing AI performance, benchmarks are often taken out of context, sometimes to harmful results
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Four AI Trends for 2022
Look for improvements to neural networks, strategic ethics, hiring practices, and even gastronomy
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Keeping AI in Healthcare in Check
Experts discuss the need to prevent AI bias in healthcare
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Be Wary of Trusting Algorithms in Volatile Markets
IT leaders can prevent disaster by understanding and articulating the risks of relying on increasingly complex algorithms
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The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3
Why GPT-3 as is will not cost many people their jobs or soon lead to AGI
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AI Reality Check
The limitations in getting machines to understand a world they don't live in
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An Insider's View of 'Algorithmic Warfare'
Artificial intelligence will change the nature of war, says a former U.S. deputy secretary of defense.
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AI Needs to Prevent Cyberattacks, Not Just Detect Them
AI should be enabling faster, automated, more ubiquitous prevention of cyberattacks
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The Turing Test Is Bad for Business
Technology should focus on the complementarity game, not the imitation game
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'Yeah, We're Spooked', Says Expert about AI's Potential Impact
Professor Stuart Russell says field of AI needs to grow up quickly to ensure humans remain in control
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AI and the Intelligence Community: The Tangled Web of Budget and Acquisition
The intelligence community still faces basic hurdles as it moves to transition and integrate AI at speed and scale
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Why We Forgive Humans More Readily Than Machines
When things go wrong, flexible moral intuitions cause us to judge computers more severely
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The Metaverse Is Simply Big Tech, but Bigger
It's a rebrand of Silicon Valley's increasing power and reach, and it's made for companies, not people
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Strong AI Requires Autonomous Building of Composable Models
Models built by AI must encode the fundamental patterns of experience
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Avoiding AI's Bad Reputation
AI-based advertising models 'give tech a bad name,' says Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost
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How AI Is Reinventing What Computers Are
Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute
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Programming Hate into AI Will Be Controversial, but Possibly Necessary
For a created consciousness to make value judgments, both liking and disliking functions must be part of the system.
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Moving Towards Reproducible Machine Learning
Reporting machine learning-based research can help to improve transparency and reproducibility
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