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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We Should Not Try to Make Conscious Software—Until We Should
Eventually, the most ethical option might be to divert all resources toward building very happy machines.
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Why All Cryptocurrency Should 'Die in a Fire'
Computer scientist Nicholas Weaver thinks cryptocurrency is a terrible idea that will end in disaster.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Breaking Patent Law
Inventions devised by machines require their own intellectual property law and an international treaty.
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How to Write Software with Mathematical Perfection
Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other, and now he's working on how engineers talk to their machines.
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Our House Is On Fire: The Climate Emergency and Computing's Responsibility
Efficiencies delivered by computing technology could play a vital role in enabling continued functionality within a resource-constrained future.
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The Planning and Care of Data
Rearranging buckets for no good reason.
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Involvement and Detachment
How detachment from your community blocks your success at leading innovations, and what to do about it.
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The Woman Who Brought Female Representation to Games
The year-long search for Wabbit creator Van Mai comes to a happy conclusion.
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The Problem with Blaming Robots for Taking Our Jobs
For decades, the effects of automation have been fiercely debated. Are we missing the bigger picture?
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Mark Zuckerberg on His Big Metaverse Bet
Meta CEO explains why he is committed to the metaverse and able to make bets that others will not.
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Lessons From Deploying Deep Learning to Production
Peter Gao, an early engineer at Cruise, reflects on his experience deploying deep-learning models into production.
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Can Large Language Models Be Democratized?
The very nature of large language models is undemocratic and in favor of the companies that publicize them.
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Computers Have Memories Too
Simons Foundation Junior Fellow Sebastian Wolff discusses his quest to simplify the switch between the two deletion processes.
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AI Companies Are Massively Faking the Loophole in the Turing Test
Claims that an AI has achieved human levels of understanding should be approached with skepticism until it can be shown that humans were not involved.
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Future of Computer Science Is in Its Application to Daily Life
Microsoft India CTO Shivkumar Kalyanaraman believes computer science's future will be based on how it can be applied as a utility.
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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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It Is Okay to Opt out of the Crypto Revolution
The crypto industry is investing heavily in getting more people to buy in, but that does not mean you have to.
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How Language-Generation AIs Could Transform Science
University of Michigan's Shobita Parthasarathy warns that software designed to summarize, translate, and write like humans might exacerbate distrust in science....
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