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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Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
College students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected.
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Rise of Concerns About AI: Reflections and Directions
Research, leadership, and communication about AI futures.
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In Defense of IBM
The ability to adjust to various technical and business disruptions has been essential to IBM's success during the past century.
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Keys Under Doormats
Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications.
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How Tetris Explains the Promise of the ltimate Algorithm
Pedro Domingos is a serious guy with big ambitions.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love A.i.
The distinction between man and machine is under siege.
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Why Europe Isn't Creating Any Googles or Facebooks
Micha Benoliel grew up in France and launched his first technology startup there, but he never forgot the atmosphere of adventure and optimism in San Francisco,...
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Big Tech Has Become Way Too Powerful
Conservatives and liberals interminably debate the merits of "the free market" versus "the government."
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Brynjolfsson and Mcafee: The Jobs that AI Can't Replace
At the heart of capitalism is the concept of creative destruction.
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The False Science of Cryonics
I woke up on Saturday to a heartbreaking front-page article in the New York Times about a terminally ill young woman who chooses to freeze her brain.
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Do We Need to Prepare For the Robot prising?
For most of my life, I've been disappointed in robots.
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Making AI Work in the Real World
Until recently, AI seemed firmly stuck in the realm of science fiction.
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How ic Narrows Gender Gap Among Science, Technology Professors
Mitra Dutta, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, explains how a $3.3 million NSF grant has improved UIC's...
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Mark Zuckerberg and the End of Language
Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg hosted an online Q&A session on his personal Facebook page.
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I've Taught Computers to Paint Portraits — and How to Code
Falmouth University professor Simon Colton works with software that behaves in ways that would be deemed creative if observed in humans. In an interview, Colton...
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