Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Machine Learning Security Needs New Perspectives and Incentives
Researchers and developers racing to make deep learning available to different applications need to actively seek out and address security challenges before they...
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Theorists and Experimentalists Must Join Forces
Collaborations between theorists and experimentalists are crucial for accelerating research.
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For Companies That Use ML, Labeled Data Is the Key Differentiator
Any company that is considering using machine learning cannot overlook one technical choice: supervised or unsupervised learning.
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Should Alexa Read Our Moods?
Companies should be barred from analyzing what people say and how they sound to recommend products or personalize advertising messages.
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Collusion Rings Threaten the Integrity of Computer Science Research
Experiences discovering attempts to subvert the peer-review process.
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Aversion to Versions
Code needs to run anywhere as long as the necessary dependencies can be resolved.
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The Risks of Election Believability (or Lack Thereof)
With 90% of the 2020 U.S. general election ballot contents verifiable by paper, why do only 65% of voters trust the results?
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Defining a Role for AI Ethics in National Security
Mariarosaria Taddeo, an associate professor and senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Dstl Ethics Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, discusses...
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Cooperative AI: Machines Must Learn to Find Common Ground
To help humanity solve fundamental problems of cooperation, scientists need to reconceive artificial intelligence as deeply social.
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Trustworthy Scientific Computing
Addressing the trust issues underlying the current limits on data sharing.
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The 10 Best Practices for Remote Software Engineering
Focusing on the human element of remote software engineer productivity.
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Let's Be Honest
Seeking to rectify the two mutually exclusive ways of comparing computational power — encoding and simulation.
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Building a Multilingual Wikipedia
Seeking to develop a multilingual Wikipedia where content can be shared among language editions.
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Roots of 'Program' Revisited
Considering the fundamental nature and malleability of programming.
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When Hackers Were Heroes
The complex legacy of Steven Levy's obsessive programmers.
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The Non-Psychopath's Guide to Managing an Open Source Project
Respect your staff, learn from others, and know when to let go.
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What Can the Maker Movement Teach Us About the Digitization of Creativity?
Experimenting with the creative process.
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50 Years of Pascal
The Pascal programming language creator Niklaus Wirth reflects on its origin, spread, and further development.
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Science Is Not Another Opinion
The issue is not who has the "truth," but whose claims deserve more credence.
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