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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Three Key Takeaways from Meta's Galactica AI
We should look at Galactica's initial failure as another scientific experiment, one that can bring us one step closer to success.
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How to Solve AI's 'Common-Sense' Problem
AI systems without common sense will make mistakes when they reach the limits of where they've been trained.
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Democratizing LLMs Needs a Revolution in AI Hardware
Hardware barriers must be overcome to make LLMs available to a broader audience.
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Intro to Model-Free and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Neuroscientist and author Daeyeol Lee talks reinforcement learning in humans and animals, AI and natural intelligence, and more.
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'Sentience' Is the Wrong Discussion to Have on AI Right Now
A more important conversation would be one about human compatibility and trust.
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Can Large Language Models Be Democratized?
The very nature of large language models is undemocratic and in favor of the companies that publicize them.
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Democratize Machine Learning with No-Code AI
Organizations lacking skilled data scientists and ML engineers can create and deploy ML models, too.
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Humans Should Be at the Center of AI
Human-centered AI aims to reduce fears of existential threats and increase benefits for users and society.
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Encourage Women in Tech to Protect against AI Bias
Need to ensure tech accurately reflects the structure of society
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Meta's Yann LeCun on His Vision for Human-level AI
Rather than try to replace natural intelligence, create AI that is compatible with human intelligence
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Humans and AI: Problem Finders and Problem Solvers
Technologies such as AlphaCode cannot think about and design their own problems, but they are very good problem solvers
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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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Individual AI, a New Technology that Will Change Our World?
Is the next version of AI a technological symbiosis of the human brain and the computer system?
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Does AI Understand Our Language?
Can large language models teach us about the nature of language, understanding, intelligence, sociality, and personhood?
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Why We Must Rethink AI Benchmarks
While helpful in comparing AI performance, benchmarks are often taken out of context, sometimes to harmful results
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A Developer's Guide to Machine-Learning Security
Countering adversarial attacks means understanding the different types as well as the ML weak spots
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How AI Can Enhance the Human Experience
With AI, the digital age can complement humanity like never before
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Why Machine Learning Can't Understand Human Language
While larger deep neural networks can incrementally improveme specific tasks, they aren't fit for general natural language understanding.12