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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Your Response to AWS Going Down Shouldn't Be Multicloud
It's convenient but wrong to assume multicloud will solve your application resilience woes
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Facebook's Missteps Should Be a Lesson for Web3
The new crop of technologists building Web3 can still learn a lot from Open Graph's problems
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Securing Kubernetes Environments
Lack of resources is a massive blocker, so IT leaders need to prioritize
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The Father of Web3 Wants You to Trust Less
Gavin Wood believes decentralized technologies are the only hope of preserving liberal democracy
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The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3
Why GPT-3 as is will not cost many people their jobs or soon lead to AGI
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Self-Supervised Learning and Large Language Models
Stanford PhD student discusses recent research on understanding, building, and controlling pre-trained models
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AI Is Not A-OK
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says humans will need to find a way to coexist with artificial intelligence
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'Yeah, We're Spooked', Says Expert about AI's Potential Impact
Professor Stuart Russell says field of AI needs to grow up quickly to ensure humans remain in control
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Social Media Cos. Help African Governments Abuse 'Disinformation Laws'
Social media platforms alternate between ignoring disinformation and launching broad crackdowns on user speech
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The Metaverse Is Simply Big Tech, but Bigger
It's a rebrand of Silicon Valley's increasing power and reach, and it's made for companies, not people
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Anne Carpenter: Her Machine Learning Tools Pull Insights from Cell Images
Computational biologist brings the power of machine learning to researchers seeking answers in mountains of cell images
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Jeannette Wing: How Computing Has Transformed
Data science expert talks about how trustworthy AI and causal reasoning can help society solve real-world problems
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Where Computing Might Go Next
The future of computing depends in part on how we reckon with its past
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How AI Is Reinventing What Computers Are
Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute
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Medical Artificial Intelligence: The European Legal Perspective
Although the European Commission proposed new legislation for the use of "high-risk artificial intelligence" earlier this year, the existing European fundamental...
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Text and Data Mining of In-Copyright Works: Is It Legal?
How copyright law might be an impediment to text and data mining research.
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Infrastructure as Code
Helping software developers use code to access more control over cloud infrastructure assets
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Moving Towards Reproducible Machine Learning
Reporting machine learning-based research can help to improve transparency and reproducibility
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The FDA Should Better Regulate Medical Algorithms
Most do not require the agency's approval, and those that do often don't require clinical trial
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