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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Dense Visual Representations, NeRFs, and LLMs for Robotics
Google research scientist Pete Florence discusses how robotics can benefit from dense visual representations, neural radiance fields, and large language models....
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Demos
One way to examine the relationship between AI and democracy is to turn the attention toward the very basic unit common to all forms of democracy: the people.
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Open-Endedness and Evolution through Large Models
A conversation with Joel Lehman, machine-learning scientist formerly of OpenAI and Uber AI Labs.
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Linguistics and the Development of NLP
An interview with Christopher Manning, director of the Stanford University AI Lab and an associate director of Stanford's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence...
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Interpretable Machine Learning
A conversation with Been Kim, staff research scientist at Google Brain.
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AI Is Ushering In a New Scientific Revolution
AI is transforming the scientific process, automating and adding to what people can accomplish using it.
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Teaching Robots to Help People in Their Everyday Lives
An interview with Max Braun of Everyday Robots.
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The Missing Voices in Natural Language Processing
Who and what is being represented in the data and development of NLP models?
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The Future of AI in Games
Making artificial intelligence a tool of freedom and creativity for everyone.
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Machine-Learning Robustness, Foundation Models, and Reproducibility
An interview with Percy Liang, associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
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Robot Learning at Google and Generalization via Language
Google Robotics research scientist Eric Jang talks about robotic manipulation and self-supervised robotic learning
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Human-Centered Explainable AI and Social Transparency
An interview with doctoral candidate Upol Ehsan, who researched human-centered explainable AI
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China's AI Dream and the AI 'Arms Race'
Stanford postdoctoral fellow discusses research exploring impact of AI in a possible U.S.-China power transition
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RL Benchmarking, Climate Impacts of AI, and AI for Law
Stanford JD-PhD candidate Peter Henderson talks about creating robust decision-making systems and ML methods that benefit society
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Strong AI Requires Autonomous Building of Composable Models
Models built by AI must encode the fundamental patterns of experience
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Meta Learning and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Stanford professor Chelsea Finn talks about robotics and meta learning research
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Yann LeCun Talks Research Beginnings and Recent Developments
Deep-learning pioneer discusses early days in image-processing and developments in self-supervised learning for computer vision
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Who's Building the Foundation Models of the Future?
Curation, auditing, and evaluation of so-called 'foundation models' should not be left to the tech industry.
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The Imperative for Sustainable AI Systems
The impact of AI's massive carbon footprint is social, not just environmental12