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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Will AI Help Us to Work Less?
The idea that tech will free us from drudgery is an attractive narrative, but history tells a different story.
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AI Expert Weighs In on the Rise of Chatbots
Products like ChatGPT will never be truly ready to go unless we have a working AI technology that supports continuous life-long learning.
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GPT-4 Is Not Perfect, but Neither Are You
An interview with OpenAI's Greg Brockman.
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Do We Need a National Algorithms Safety Board?
Perfectly safe algorithmic systems are not possible, but safer systems are.
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Medical AI Is as Much Social as It Is Technological
Medical AI applications need to overcome transparency and trust issues.
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Large Language Models Will Change Programming…a Little
Hype has been a primary driver of the excitement around LLMs.
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With AI, We Are Reliving the Start of the Smartphone Era
We often judge the utility of a new technology on how well it deals with the problems of older ones.
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Who Is Liable when AI Kills?
We need to change rules and institutions while still promoting innovation to protect people from faulty artificial intelligence.
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Why You Should Not Trust AI Search Engines
The technology is simply not ready to be used like this at this scale.
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ChatGPT Can Improve Education, not Threaten It
A professor explains why he is allowing students to incorporate ChatGPT into their writing process instead of banning it.
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What Is Wrong with ChatGPT?
AI is being designed and deployed by corporate America in ways that will disempower and displace workers and degrade the consumer experience.
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Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics
A wave of research improves reinforcement learning algorithms by pre-training them as if they were human.
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ChatGPT: Five Priorities for Research
Conversational AI is a game-changer for science; here's how to respond.
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"Conversational" AI Is Really Bad at Conversations
Conversation without change is just a five-finger exercise.
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Yann LeCun: ChatGPT 'Not Particularly Innovative'
Deep learning pioneer says many research labs are using the same techniques and doing the same kind of work.
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How ChatGPT Could Revolutionize Education
Could an AI chatbot change learning forever?
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It Is Time to Have a Group Chat about AI
We need to seriously consider how to regulate the use of AI—long before it can replace the functions of tens of millions to billions of people.
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