Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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AI System Passed an Eighth-Grade Science Test
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence introduced an artificial intelligence system that successfully passed an eighth-grade multiple-choice science test...
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AI Is Learning From Humans. Many Humans.
While artificial intelligence systems are viewed by most people in technology as the future of the industry, tech executives rarely discuss the labor-intensive...
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And Now, a Bicycle Built for None
Researchers from Tsinghua University in China have developed a self-driving bicycle.
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Toby Walsh, A.I. Expert, Is Racing to Stop the Killer Robots
Autonomous weapons, capable of acting without human oversight, are closer than we think, Walsh believes, and must be banned.
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Stanford Team Aims at Alexa, Siri With Privacy-Minded Alternative
Stanford University researchers are designing voice-operated virtual assistants that give users more control over personal information.
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DeepMind Can Now Beat s at Multiplayer Games, Too
Researchers have developed automated "agents" that display humanlike behavior when playing in capture-the-flag mode in the Quake III multiplayer computer game. ...
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San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Technology
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has banned the use of facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes by police and other agencies in the city.
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AI Is Flying Drones (Very, Very Slowly)
Researchers have developed an autonomous drone that navigates using artificial intelligence.
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He Helped Create AI. Now, He Worries About 'Killer Robots'
Yoshua Bengio, a co-recipient of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, is concerned about artificial intelligence being weaponized.
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Warnings of a Dark Side to AI in Health Care
A recently published study warns that new artificial intelligence technology designed to enhance healthcare is vulnerable to misuse.
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Warnings of a Dark Side to A.I. in Health Care
Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved a device that can capture an image of your retina and automatically detect signs of diabetic blindness.
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India Fights Diabetic Blindness With Help From AI
The Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India, is working with Google artificial intelligence scientists to automate the identification of diabetic retinopathy.
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AI Shows Promise as Physician Assistant
Researchers in the U.S. and China have developed a system that uses artificial intelligence to automatically diagnose common childhood conditions.
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Making New Drugs With a Dose of AI
An artificial intelligence designed by Google's DeepMind unit recently won the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction competition.
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Making New Drugs With a Dose of Artificial Intelligence
You can think of it as a World Cup of biochemical research.
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The Rise of the Robot Reporter
As reporters and editors find themselves the victims of layoffs at digital publishers and traditional newspaper chains alike, journalism generated by machine is...
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How Do You Govern Machines That Can Learn? Policymakers Are Trying to Figure That Out
Expert discussions on artificial intelligence took place last week in support potentially arrive at consensual recommendations for AI policy by the summer.
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Curbs on A.I. Exports? Silicon Valley Fears Losing Its Edge
A common belief among tech industry insiders is that Silicon Valley has dominated the internet because much of the worldwide network was designed and built by Americans...
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One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google's parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers...
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