Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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The Troubling Future for Facial Recognition Software
Considering the myriad perspectives of facial recognition technology.
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Bursting a Few Balloons Regarding the Famous DARPA Red Balloon Challenge
A balloon's-eyeperspective on a unique distributed, time-critical, geo-location problem.
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Is a Privacy Crisis Experienced, a Privacy Crisis Avoided?
Exploring immersive theatre as a way to educate audiences and study their perceptions of privacy and technology ethics.
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A Call to Action
Digital dreams have become nightmares: What we must do.
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The Inevitability of Trusted Third Parties
The search for a crypto use case continues
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DeepMind AlphaCode Does Not Compare to Human Programmers
Human programmers are in control but they must learn to harness the power and limits of AI-generated code
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The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Datasets
Retired and redacted datasets flagged as harmful or biased continue to rear their ugly heads
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Why Is Silicon Valley Still Waiting for the Next Big Thing?
Have the big thinkers of tech lost their mojo?
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Open Source Intelligence
Averting strategic surprises requires uncovering secrets hidden in plain sight
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I Unplugged What?
The lessons here are broader than just a simple "Don't do that."
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A Brave New World of Mediated Online Discourse
Is artificial intelligence up to the task of managing online discourse in social networks?
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Microsoft Quantum Computing Exec Sees Progress
Company's novel, risky approach to quantum computing might be ready to put setbacks behind it
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Is LiDAR on Its Way Out?
As automation proliferates, sensing is increasingly moving toward software and away from LiDAR
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Why Better AI May Depend on Fake Data
Synthetic data can provide AI with a broader education than real-world data, but challenges exist
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The Future of Robot Nannies
A machine can't love our children, but our children might love them
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The Growing Cost of Deep Learning for Source Code
Attempting to mitigate problems associated with the trend toward massive dataset scaling.
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The Long Road Ahead to Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Anticipating the output of the competition for new cryptographic algorithms.
From ACM Opinion
Your Response to AWS Going Down Shouldn't Be Multicloud
It's convenient but wrong to assume multicloud will solve your application resilience woes
From ACM Opinion