Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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A Lesson in Resource Management
Waste not memory, want not memory — unless it doesn't matter.
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Design Thinking
Design thinking is the newest fashion for finding better solutions to problems. Combining it with computational thinking offers some real possibilities for improving...
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Blinded By the Light
The probe sails through space, traveling the distance of the LA-to-Chicago red-eye in a minute.
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Should Tech Designers Go With Their Guts—or the Data?
For many tech companies, design is no longer subjective.
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A Force For Face-to-Face Communication
Clifford I. Nass, a professor of communication at Stanford who died on Saturday, regaled me several times over the years about his method for torturing students...
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Why We Should Think About the Threat of Artificial Intelligence
If the New York Times's latest article is to be believed, artificial intelligence is moving so fast it sometimes seems almost "magical."
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There's One Key Difference Between Kids Who Excel at Math and Those Who Don't
"I’m just not a math person."
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The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think
"It depends on what you mean by artificial intelligence."
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The Nobel Prize in Physics Is Really a Nobel Prize in Math
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs for the prediction of the Higgs boson, which was experimentally confirmed...
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The Many Meanings of Open
I was recently asked to talk about the idea of "open," and I realized the term is used in at least eight different ways.
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Nobel Prizes 2013: Computer Models That Can Mimic Life
We talk about computer modeling a lot in the context of climate science—powerful algorithms that help scientists get a better idea of how climate systems work,...
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Google in Jeopardy: What If IBM's Watson Dethroned the King of Search?
Remember Watson, IBM's Jeopardy! champion?
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In Search of Planetary Intelligence
It is said that Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about Western civilization, remarked, "I think it would be a good idea."
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Does Digital Age Overcomplicate Design?
There is a scene in the television series "Boss" in which the mayor of Chicago, played by Kelsey Grammer, is discovered by his wife washing bed sheets by hand at...
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To Boldly Go Nowhere, For Now
On Aug. 20, NASA's administrator formally welcomed the newest candidates of the astronaut corpsand released a space exploration roadmap that includes robotic and...
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How Robots Can Trick You Into Loving Them
I like to think of my Roomba as cute and industrious.
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Who Will Prosper in the New World
Self-driving vehicles threaten to send truck drivers to the unemployment office.
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