Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Large Language Models Will Change Programming…a Little
Hype has been a primary driver of the excitement around LLMs.
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With AI, We Are Reliving the Start of the Smartphone Era
We often judge the utility of a new technology on how well it deals with the problems of older ones.
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Who Is Liable when AI Kills?
We need to change rules and institutions while still promoting innovation to protect people from faulty artificial intelligence.
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Why You Should Not Trust AI Search Engines
The technology is simply not ready to be used like this at this scale.
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ChatGPT Can Improve Education, not Threaten It
A professor explains why he is allowing students to incorporate ChatGPT into their writing process instead of banning it.
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What Is Wrong with ChatGPT?
AI is being designed and deployed by corporate America in ways that will disempower and displace workers and degrade the consumer experience.
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Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics
A wave of research improves reinforcement learning algorithms by pre-training them as if they were human.
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ChatGPT: Five Priorities for Research
Conversational AI is a game-changer for science; here's how to respond.
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"Conversational" AI Is Really Bad at Conversations
Conversation without change is just a five-finger exercise.
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Yann LeCun: ChatGPT 'Not Particularly Innovative'
Deep learning pioneer says many research labs are using the same techniques and doing the same kind of work.
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It Is Time to Have a Group Chat about AI
We need to seriously consider how to regulate the use of AI—long before it can replace the functions of tens of millions to billions of people.
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Human Values for Artificial Intelligence
We must act now to ensure that AI's development is guided by human-centric principles.
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The Battle Over Women's Data
In a post-Roe world, bodily autonomy must include control over personal data.
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Interpretability of Artificial Neural Network Models in AI versus Neuroscience
Potential synergies and tensions between neuroscientists and AI researchers in interpreting artificial neural networks.
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Advancing Ethics Review Practices in AI Research
Recent initiatives to implement AI ethics review processes, better understand societal impacts, and share learnings have had a positive effect, but more needs to...
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AI Is Now Essential National Infrastructure
Building government artificial intelligence capability is as important as roads and rail.
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Can AI Invent?
Recent patent applications for two inventions that are claimed to have been made by an AI are bringing these questions to the fore.
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