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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Yoshua Bengio: The Past, Present, and Future of Deep Learning
2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient discusses his career, collaborations, deep learning's promise, and directions for the field.
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Building a New Economy: Data, AI, and Web3
How distributed technologies could return more control to users.
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Can Universities Combat the 'Wrong Kind of AI'?
Seeking an artificial intelligence reset.
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The Four Horsemen of an Ailing Software Project
Don't let the pale rider catch you with an exception.
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The Context Problem in Artificial Intelligence
The artificial intelligence design challenge of teaming humans and machines is difficult because machines cannot read the context of use.
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Software Engineering in Physics Research
A discussion on how physics research scientists use software.
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Rethinking Silicon Valley: Stewart Brand's Lost Journal
Discovering a hidden chapter in computing history.
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Mobile-App Privacy Nutrition Labels Missing Key Ingredients for Success
Android and iOS privacy labels confuse developers and end users.
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Data Platforms and Network Effects
How data-network effects create opportunities and inflate expectations.
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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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The AI Researcher Giving Her Field Its Bitter Medicine
Anima Anandkumar wants computer scientists to move beyond the matrix, among other challenges.
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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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Interpretable Machine Learning
A conversation with Been Kim, staff research scientist at Google Brain.
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On the Model of Computation: Counterpoint: Parallel Programming Wall and Multicore Software Spiral: Denial Hence Crisis
Parallel programming wall and multicore software spiral: Denial hence crisis.
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On the Model of Computation: Point: We Must Extend Our Model of Computation to Account for Cost and Location
We must extend our model of computation to account for cost and location.
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Can Neural Networks Learn Better than Human Neurons?
When AI programmers stop trying to copy the human neuron, neural networks make much better progress.
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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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