Communications of the ACM
New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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We Will See a Completely New Type of Computer, Says AI Pioneer Hinton
ACM A.M. Turing award recipient Geoffrey Hinton envisions a "mortal" neuromorphic computer combining hardware and software.
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How the Collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's Crypto Empire Has Disrupted A.I.
Bankman-Fried and his colleagues spent more than $530 million to battle what they saw as the dangers of artificial intelligence. Now those efforts are reeling. ...
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New AI Speeds Computer Graphics by Up to 5x
Neural rendering harnesses machine learning to paint pixels.
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Scientists Use Quantum Computing to Create Glass that Cuts the Need for AC by a Third
Quantum computing, machine learning, and contact lens polymers combined to dramatically reduce energy costs.
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San Francisco Will Allow Police to Deploy Robots That Kill
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to grant city police the option to deploy potentially lethal robots in emergency situations.
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ML Tools Automatically Classify 1,000 Supernovae
A machine learning algorithm autonomously classified 1,000 supernovae using data from the Zwicky Transient Facility sky survey instrument at Caltech's Palomar Observatory...
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The Long Road to Driverless Trucks
Self-driving eighteen-wheelers are on U.S. highways, but there are still human "safety drivers" behind the wheel. What will it take to get them out?
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Lawsuit Takes Aim at the Way A.I. Is Built
A programmer is suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over artificial intelligence technology that generates its own computer code.
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AI Material Learns Behaviors, Adapts to Changing Conditions
University of California, Los Angeles engineers have developed a new class of material.
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Quantum Computers and the Universe
Ideas for quantum computing change the way we think about space and time.
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Swarm Robotics Moves Forward
Drawing inspiration from nature to enable complex behaviors.
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Preserving the Past with Immersive Technologies
Digital technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and holograms allow museums and other institutions to preserve historical events and tell stories...
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AI is Solving Classical Computing's Quantum Problem
Quantum computers, once thought to be "superior" to classical computers, increasingly are being seen as yet another accelerator for specialized problems, according...
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AI Is Better at Answering Questions if You Get Another AI to Ask Them
An artificial intelligence (AI) model that makes suggestions to another AI generates results as good as if they were prompts from people.
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Can You Tell Whether This Headline Was Written by a Robot?
Not this time, but artificial intelligence is churning out articles, illustrations, fake product reviews and even videos.
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Italy Outlaws Facial Recognition Tech, Except to Fight Crime
Italy has banned the use of facial recognition technology and "smart glasses," except when used in judicial investigations or the fight against crime.
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AI Uses Artificial Sleep to Learn New Task without Forgetting the Last
Scientists taught an artificial intelligence a second distinct task without overwriting connections learned from a first task, through the use of simulated sleep...
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AI Diversity Scoring System Could Help Root Out Algorithmic Bias
Princeton University's Adji Bousso Dieng and Dan Friedman have developed a diversity score for artificial intelligence to help detect bias.
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