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From ACM NewsDavid Geer Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 23, 2022
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
A study found that a system used to identify cases of sepsis missed most instances and frequently issued false alarms.
Wired From ACM News | June 22, 2021
Microsoft reveals plans to bring GPT-3, best known for generating text, to programming. "The code writes itself," CEO Satya Nadella says.
Wired From ACM News | May 27, 2021
Drills involving swarms of drones raise questions about whether machines could outperform a human operator in complex scenarios.
Wired From ACM News | May 17, 2021
A transmission factory shows how artificial intelligence may creep into industrial processes in gradual and often imperceptible ways.
Wired From ACM News | April 29, 2021
Kate Crawford, who holds positions at USC and Microsoft, says in a new book that even experts working on the technology misunderstand AI.
Wired From ACM News | April 27, 2021
Programs such as GPT-3 can compose convincing text. Some people are using the tool to automate software development and hunt for bugs.
Wired From ACM News | April 26, 2021
Some artificial intelligence experts think role playing adventure games will help machines learn to be as clever as we are.
Wired From ACM News | February 24, 2021
Singapore's Changi General Hospital is using software from Open Robotics to avoid standoffs among its robots in hallways or outside elevators.
Wired From ACM TechNews | February 12, 2021
New research renews concerns about bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Wired From ACM News | November 19, 2020
Researchers found they could stop a Tesla by flashing a few frames of a stop sign for less than half a second on an Internet-connected billboard.
Wired From ACM News | October 20, 2020
Alphabet's DeepMind pioneered reinforcement learning. A California company used it to create an algorithm that defeated an F-16 pilot in a simulation.
Wired From ACM News | August 26, 2020
A big study by the U.S. Census Bureau finds that only about 9% of firms employ tools like machine learning or voice recognition—for now.
Wired From ACM News | July 30, 2020
A new algorithm enables a small four-wheeled robot to perform real-time gait analysis in order to determine a walker's emotional state.
Wired From ACM TechNews | May 20, 2020
Sixty years ago, a sharecropper's son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished.
Wired From ACM News | February 3, 2020
The computing power required for AI landmarks, such as recognizing images and defeating humans at Go, increased 300,000-fold from 2012 to 2018.
Wired From ACM News | January 22, 2020