Communications of the ACM
Giving AI Common Sense
Can we teach smart machines what is obvious to every 10-year-old?
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Driverless Congestion
A simulation of Zurich, Switzerland, demonstrated that driverless taxis would not replace personal transportation in cities, as long as private autonomous vehicles...
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Microsoft Quietly Deletes Largest Public Face-Recognition Dataset
Microsoft has deleted its MS Celeb dataset from the Internet.
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Why Should We Care About Technology Ethics? The pdated ACM Code of Ethics
Ethical responsibility is especially critical to artificial intelligence developers, said Catherine Flick of the ACM Committee on Professional Ethics.
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Software Vendor May Have Opened a Gap for Hackers in 2016 Swing State
A Florida election software company targeted by Russians in 2016 inadvertently opened a potential pathway for hackers to tamper with voter records in North Carolina...
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Apple macOS Security Protections Easily Bypassed With 'Synthetic' Clicks, Researcher Finds
A researcher found a zero-day vulnerability in a central Apple macOS safeguard, allowing apps or malware to circumvent permissions and access a user's private data...
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Keeping Algorithms Fair
It's easier to de-bias algorithms than it is to de-bias people.
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Vulnerability of Cloud Service Hardware ncovered
Researchers have found that field programmable gate arrays have vulnerabilities that could be exploited by cyber criminals.
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