Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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Supercomputer Emulator: AI's New Role in Science
Chris Bishop, Microsoft's head of AI4Science, sees machine learning partially supplanting simulation.
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AI's Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real
But short-term job chaos will give way to long-term prosperity, says artificial intelligence expert Kai-Fu Lee.
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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement
Her new organization, DAIR, aims to show a more thoughtful mode of AI research.
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Here's How AI Will Change Chip Design
Artificial intelligence's promise and potential for the semiconductor industry.
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Andrew Ng Calls for Smart-Sized, 'Data-Centric' Solutions to Big Issues
AI pioneer says he has identified the next big shift in artificial intelligence
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Deep Learning Can't Be Trusted
Brain modeling pioneer Stephen Grossberg explains why his ART model is better
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Pentagon Wants AI to Predict Events Before They Occur
AI-enabled platforms are expected to offer strategic warning of adversarial actions prior to any irreversible moves having been made
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Why OpenAI's Codex Won't Replace Coders
Human programmers can actually become more powerful and efficient with Codex
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Yoshua Bengio, Revered Architect of AI, Has Some Ideas About What to Build Next
The Turing Award winner wants AI systems that can reason, plan, and imagine
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Untold History of AI: The DARPA Dreamer Who Aimed for Cyborg Intelligence
At 10:30pm on 29 October 1969, a graduate student at UCLA sent a two-letter message from an SDS Sigma 7 computer to another machine a few hundred miles away at...
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Intel Execs Address the AI Talent Shortage, AI Education, and the 'Cool' Factor
Last week, I sat down with Intel's Gadi Singer, vice president and general manager of artificial intelligence architecture, and Chris Rice, head of AI talent acquisition...
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Startup JITX ses AI to Automate Complex Circuit Board Design
While anyone can learn how to design a circuit board, it takes a skilled engineer to design a circuit board that is both well optimized and unlikely to melt, explode...
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Forging Voices and Faces: The Dangers of Audio and Video Fabrication
In 1963, before he could give the speech he'd prepared for his trip to Dallas, U.S. president John F. Kennedy was assassinated. In March 2018, a company re-created...
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Q&a: The Ethics of sing Brain Implants to pgrade Yourself
Neurotechnology is one of the hottest areas of engineering, and the technological achievements sound miraculous: Paralyzed people have controlled robotic limbs and ...
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Blossom: A Handmade Approach to Social Robotics from Cornell and Google
As excited as we are about the forthcoming generation of social home robots (including Jibo, Kuri, and many others), it's hard to ignore the fact that most of them...
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Human-Level AI Is Right Around the Corner, or Hundreds of Years Away
Artificial intelligence is progressing rapidly, and its impact on our daily lives will only increase.
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Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at X, on the Future of Ai, Robots, and Coffeemakers
Astro Teller has an unusual way of starting a new project: He tries to kill it.
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What Would Marvin Minsky Read?
Marvin Minsky was one of the founders of artificial intelligence, and with John McCarthy, he created MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...
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Why Fully Autonomous Robot Cars Hail from the 20th Century
A vision of fully autonomous, self-driving cars allowing human owners to nap or read in the car seems to come from the future.
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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts
The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.12