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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Beyond Interpretability: Developing a Language to Shape Our Relationships with AI
Wouldn't it be nice if we could ask AI questions to learn how and why it makes its predictions?
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To Win the Next War, the Pentagon Needs Nerds
Data scientists, coders, and other techies could prove decisive in future conflicts—if Uncle Sam can recruit them.
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Is AI Threatened by Too Little Data?
Knowing when to limit your data dramatically affects the quality of your artificial intelligence.
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Two Paths for Digital Disability Law
Understanding the legal drivers of efforts to make technology accessible.
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How Ukraine Has Defended Itself against Cyber Attacks
As in Ukraine, U.S. organizations should work with U.S. cybersecurity agencies to prepare for and prevent attacks.
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Patterns and Prose
A University of Southern California computer scientist is a coder by trade and a poet at heart.
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What Stewart Brand Sees on the Horizon
Silicon Valley prophet thinks tech can clean itself up.
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Quantum Computing Has a Hype Problem
Quantum computing startups are all the rage, but it is unclear if they will be able to produce anything of use in the near future.
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Democratize Machine Learning with No-Code AI
Organizations lacking skilled data scientists and ML engineers can create and deploy ML models, too.
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How Compute and the Climate Go Hand-in-Hand
Data is critical to the success of all climate tech projects, whether to drive development or improve efficiency.
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AI Suggested 40,000 New Chemical Weapons in Six Hours
Drug-developing artificial intelligence invents 40,000 potentially lethal molecules in quarter of a day.
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Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
What would it take for artificial intelligence to make real progress?
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Yoshua Bengio: 'I Have Rarely Been as Enthusiastic about a New Research Direction'
Yoshua Bengio gushes about GFlowNets, calling them "a new beast" for which the appropriate optimization algorithms are still making rapid progress
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Security: The Lock and the Key to Blockchain's Future
For blockchain technology to fulfill its full potential, the security standard needs to mature
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The Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
The cloud is not only material but also an ecological force
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Intelligence and Comprehension
What does it mean to say a computer model 'understands'?
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Crypto and Technology for the People
Brown University professor Seny Kamara talks about the intersection between social responsibility and cryptography/technology
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