Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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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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U.S. Science and Technology Offer Hope for the Future
The scientific advances announced in recent months are thrilling, capable of sustaining our economic and military competitiveness for decades to come.
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Stop Passing the Buck on Cybersecurity
Why companies must build safety into tech products.
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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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The Computer Scientist Who Finds Life Lessons in Games
In Shang-Hua Teng's work, theoretical and practical questions have long been intertwined. Now he's turning his focus to the impractical.
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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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U.K. Online Safety Bill Is Doomed to Fail
Draft legislation suffers from mission creep, internal contradictions, and a dire lack of clear definitions.
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An Analysis of Black Faculty in CS Research Departments
Exploring Black faculty at computer science research departments where Ph.D. programs exist.
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The Premature Obituary of Programming
Why deep learning will not replace programming.
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Building Machine Learning Models Like Open Source Software
Proposing a community-based system for model development.
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Software Engineering of Machine Learning Systems
Seeking to make machine learning more dependable.
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Ethical AI is Not about AI
The equation Ethics + AI = Ethical AI is questionable.
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The Elephant in the Room
It is time to get the POSIX elephant off our necks.
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