Communications of the ACM
NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Candidate Cracked
It took researchers in Belgium just an hour to crack the SIKE cryptographic algorithm.
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Art, AI Collide in Landmark Legal Dispute
Human artists and artificial intelligence companies are disputing generative AI-intellectual property in a landmark legal case.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Raises Alarm Over Student Cheating
Universities need new ways to assess and respond to threats to academic integrity posed by AI tools that students could use to cheat on written assignments.
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DeepMind Research Cracks Structure of Almost Every Known Protein
Scientists at DeepMind used its AlphaFold algorithm to predict the 3D shape of almost every known protein.
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Cathédrale Notre-Dame Rescue Is Buttressed by Digital Wizardry
Art historians, architects, computer scientists, and digital designers are leveraging virtual reality, 3D modeling, and cloud computing technologies to create a...
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NHS Signs Up for Tim Berners-Lee Pilot to Reinvent Web
The U.K.'s National Health Service is among more than a dozen partners that have signed up for a pilot program of Tim Berners-Lee's new company to promote a new...
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Self-Driving Industry Takes to the Highway After Robotaxi Failure
FThe autonomous vehicle industry is refocusing on more-profitable opportunities after efforts to commercialize robotaxis failed to live up to the hype.
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Recyclers Turn to Robots After Waste Import Bans
Waste import bans have prompted many companies to use robotic technologies to enhance their processing capabilities.
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How AI Helps Historians Solve Ancient Puzzles
Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are helping historians restore or recreate archaeological artifacts from photos of fragments.
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Pay Users to Spot Bias in AI, Say Top Researchers
Leading researchers have proposed a system of financially rewarding users to spot bias in algorithms.
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Automation Finds Home in Building Design
Startup Higharc iteratively creates customized three-dimensional home designs via algorithmic modeling.
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How to Design AI that Eliminates Disability Bias
AI has proven to magnify the prejudices that skew human decision making against women and ethnic minorities.
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Novartis, Microsoft Join Forces to Develop Drugs Using AI
Novartis and Microsoft have agreed to a five-year partnership to use artificial intelligence (AI) to develop new drugs faster, and with greater precision.
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Australian Regulators Cautiously Embrace AI to Boost Compliance
Australian regulators are cautiously using artificial intelligence to address a lack of compliance across that nation’s financial sector.
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Banks se AI to Catch Rogue Traders Before the Act
Over the past few years, banks have made significant strides in trader surveillance, embracing communication monitoring tools that look for obvious flash phrases...
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Scientist Warns Against Discoveries Made With AI
Inaccurate findings are being made in some areas of biomedical research.
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Researchers Take Step Closer to Creating Tech That Can Read Minds
Columbia University researchers have developed a system that can produce intelligible synthetic speech through computer processing of human brain activity.
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National Health Service Trials AI Software to Diagnose Breast Cancer
Several European companies have trained artificial intelligence to detect signs of breast cancer.
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Neural Networks Allow S to 'Read Faces' in a New Way
Stanford University professor Michal Kosinski is using deep neural networks to illustrate the use of facial-recognition technology for invasive monitoring
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Alibaba and Microsoft AI Beat Humans in Stanford Reading Test
Artificial intelligence programs from China and the U.S. last week outperformed humans in a global reading comprehension test
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Intelligent Machines Are Asked to Explain How Their Minds Work
Researchers are trying to teach intelligent machines to explain, in human terms, how their minds work.12