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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Should Government Halt the Use of Facial-Recognition Technology?
Critics say false positives are far higher for some groups of people than for others, but supporters of the technology says the actual numbers involved are tiny...
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Unsafe At Any Level
The U.S. NHTSA's levels of automation are a liability for automated vehicles.
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Dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has confronted us with a raft of dilemmas that challenge us to decide what values are important in our designs.
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The U.S. Needs a High-Tech Manhattan Project
The United States needs to wrest the high-tech initiative from China and re-establish American dominance in telecommunications, computation, artificial intelligence...
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Towards a Conversational Agent that Can Chat About…Anything
In "Towards a Human-like Open-Domain Chatbot", we present Meena, a 2.6-billion-parameter end-to-end trained neural conversational model.
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Does Artificial Intelligence Technology Foreshadow a New Arms Race?
The possibility of an artificial intelligence arms race poses a threat to international security similar to that of a conventional or nuclear armament race.
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AI Isn't a Solution to All Our Problems
It's simply a tool—and hardly a perfect one
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We're Banning Facial Recognition. We're Missing the Point.
The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that.
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Sovan Bin, CEO and Founder at Odaseva
Sovan Bin discusses Odaseva's data governance solutions, the evolution of cloud services, and AI and machine learning's influence in the cloud user experience. ...
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Host of Problems with Facebook Deepfake Ban, Expert Says
Facebook's newly announced ban on deepfake videos presents a number of challenges in the fight against the spread of misinformation, says Tim Weninger, associate...
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The AI Community Needs fo Take Responsibility for Its Technology and Its Actions
Celeste Kidd, a cognitive psychologist, challenged the audience to think critically about the future they want to build.
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The AI Community Needs fo Take Responsibility for Its Technology and Its Actions
Celeste Kidd, a cognitive psychologist, challenged the audience to think critically about the future they want to build.
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Yoshua Bengio, Revered Architect of AI, Has Some Ideas About What to Build Next
The Turing Award winner wants AI systems that can reason, plan, and imagine
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Google AI Chief Jeff Dean on Machine Learning Trends in 2020
Google AI chief Jeff Dean discusses Google's early work on the use of ML to create semiconductors for machine learning, the impact of Google's BERT on conversational...
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Stop Saying Driverless Cars Will Help Old People
And maybe start including them in research instead of just assuming we know what they want.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Adversary
The AI that our top scientists and engineers are now building to advance American security and prosperity could instead sow the seeds of our demise.
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AIs Should Have The Same Ethical Protections As Animals
We will soon have AI as cognitively sophisticated as mice or dogs, so it is time to start thinking about whether these AIs deserve the ethical protections we typically...
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The Architect of Modern Algorithms
Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can't be overcome with good design alone...
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Dan Jacobson On ORNL's Algorithms for Climate-Resilient Crops
Dan Jacobson of Oak Ridge National Laboratory has a few ideas on how artificial intelligence might impact agriculture, the food industry, and the field of bioengineering...
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