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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Adam Dymitruk on Event Modeling
Exploring the event-modeling approach to discovering requirements and designing software systems.
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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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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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The 'End of Crypto'? Not So Fast
The trust lost in the FTX debacle will take years to rebuild, but it is certainly not the end of crypto.
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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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Why Synthetic Data Is Key to Paving the Way for Smart Cities
Synthetic data helps in projects that place heavy demand on data.
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Why Don't Robots Have Rights? A Lawyer's Response
Robots are hardware and software packages that lack a nature or any abilities outside of whatever their designers imagine.
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Why Don't Robots Have Rights?
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
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How AI Is Generating a Tech Industry Upturn
We have a whole new era of exuberance on our hands.
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Software Engineering in Physics Research
A discussion on how physics research scientists use software.
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Scientists Increasingly Cannot Explain How AI Works
AI researchers are warning developers to focus more on how and why a system produces certain results than the fact that the system can accurately and rapidly produce...
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AI in Medicine Is Overhyped
AI models for healthcare that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest.
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AI Model Transferability in Healthcare: A Sociotechnical Perspective
To realize the promised benefits of applying AI and ML models at scale, a roadmap of the challenges and potential solutions to sociotechnical transferability is...
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The Computer Scientist Who Is Boosting Privacy on the Internet
Harry Halpin has helped create a new kind of network that might enable more private Internet conversations.
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AI and ML Observability
Andy Dang, head of Engineering at WhyLabs, discusses observability and data ops for AI/ML applications and how that differs from traditional observability.
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Rethinking Silicon Valley: Stewart Brand's Lost Journal
Discovering a hidden chapter in computing history.
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