Communications of the ACM
Cyberlaw: Where We Are and What's On the Horizon
Legislating for cyberspace means establishing new legal frameworks and rethinking existing ones. The global picture is mixed.
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Amsterdam, Helsinki Launch Algorithm Registries to Bring Transparency to Public AI Deployments
The cities of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Helsinki, Finland, have launched beta versions of artificial intelligence registries.
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Google's TF-Coder Tool Automates Machine Learning Model Design
Google Brain researchers have created an automated coding tool for machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow, that outperforms humans on challenging development...
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Researchers' AI System Strips Identifiable Attributes Like Gender From Speech Recordings
Researchers have proposed a technique that can remove attributes like gender from speech data to protect sensitive information.
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Tech Execs Urge Washington to Accelerate AI Adoption for National Security
Technology company CEOs have issued 35 recommendations to Congress for maintaining global artificial intelligence supremacy.
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New York Bans Facial Recognition in Schools Statewide
The New York State legislature Wednesday passed a moratorium on the use of facial recognition and other biometric identification methods in schools statewide until...
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Lyft Releases Self-Driving Vehicle Data Set, Launches $30,000 Challenge
Lyft has released a Prediction Dataset, which contains the logs of movements of cars, pedestrians, and other obstacles encountered by its 23 autonomous vehicles...
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Facebook's TransCoder AI Converts Code From One Programming Language Into Another
Facebook says its TransCoder can convert code from one high-level programming language into another.
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Stanford Lab Envisions Delivery Drones That Save Energy by Taking the Bus
Stanford University researchers have developed a methodology that allows delivery drones to take the bus.
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IBM Claims Its Neural Computer Achieves Record AI Model Training Time
Researchers at IBM have developed a reconfigurable parallel processing system called the IBM Neural Computer.
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EU Robotics Project Gives Maintenance Workers a 'Second Pair of Hands'
A five-year EU effort to develop a proactive humanoid assistant as a "second pair of hands" for industrial workers has concluded with the development of a new robotic...
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UC Berkeley Researchers Open-Source RAD to Improve Any Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
A team of researchers has open-sourced Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data.
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Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio: Self-Supervised Learning is Key to Human-Level Intelligence
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio say self-supervised learning could lead to artificial intelligence programs more humanlike in their...
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Researchers Propose a Privacy-Preserving Communication Protocol for AI Training, Inference
A team of researchers has developed an end-to-end framework for secure computation of artificial intelligence models and batch normalization.
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Intel Trains Neuromorphic Chip to Detect Odors
Intel and Cornell University researchers have trained Intel's Loihi neuromorphic processor to identify 10 materials from their odors.
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Google's ML-Fairness-Gym Lets Researchers Study the Long-Term Effects of AI's Decisions
Researchers at Google have developed a set of components for evaluating algorithmic fairness in simulated social environments.
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Ubisoft Uses AI to Teach a Car to Drive Itself in Racing Game
Ubisoft is testing a reinforcement-learning algorithm that can manage discrete, continuous video game actions in a principled, predictable manner.
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Origami-Inspired Robot Gripper Grasps Objects p to 120 Times Its Weight
Researchers have designed a robot-mounted gripper that can lift items of various weights, shapes, and sizes.
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Google Releases Dataset to Help AI Systems Spot Fake Audio Recordings
The Google News unit and artificial intelligence research division Google AI have released a speech database in an attempt to identify bogus audio recordings.
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Xiaomi's AI Restores Details, Enhances Colors in Poorly Exposed Photos
Researchers at Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi have devised an artificial intelligence system that corrects details and colors in poorly exposed photos.
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