Communications of the ACM
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AI Model Transferability in Healthcare: A Sociotechnical Perspective
To realize the promised benefits of applying AI and ML models at scale, a roadmap of the challenges and potential solutions to sociotechnical transferability is...
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Why Science Needs More Research Software Engineers
Ten years after their profession got its name, research software engineers seek to swell their ranks.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Breaking Patent Law
Inventions devised by machines require their own intellectual property law and an international treaty.
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How Language-Generation AIs Could Transform Science
University of Michigan's Shobita Parthasarathy warns that software designed to summarize, translate, and write like humans might exacerbate distrust in science....
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The Perils of Machine Learning in Designing New Chemicals and Materials
As ML tools become more broadly available when making new compounds and materials, the possibilities of misuse increase and must be guarded against.
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The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Datasets
Retired and redacted datasets flagged as harmful or biased continue to rear their ugly heads
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Moving Towards Reproducible Machine Learning
Reporting machine learning-based research can help to improve transparency and reproducibility
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But Is the Code (Re)usable?
It is crucial to guarantee the reproducibility of reported results, but don't forget to make research artifacts reusable for the scientific community
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Governing AI Safety through Independent Audits
Governance of highly automated systems is critical to garner widespread public trust
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AI Pioneer: 'The Dangers of Abuse Are Very Real'
Yoshua Bengio is one of three computer scientists who last week shared the US$1-million A. M. Turing award—one of the field's top prizes.
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Robots on the Run
Young animals gallop across fields, climb trees and immediately find their feet with enviable grace after they fall.
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How 2D Semiconductors Could Extend Moore's Law
The number of components in electronic circuits has doubled every two years since the 1960s—a trend known as Moore's law.
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Beware of Plausible Predictions of Fantasy Materials
The hunt is on for materials that have exotic properties, to enhance quantum computers, touch screens and electronic displays, and to double the efficiency of solar...
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How to Land a Journal Cover
Researchers: Felice Frankel will make photographers of you all. Photography—both macro- and microscopic—is an essential tool in science, because pictures are both...
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Technologies to Watch in 2019
Seven specialists forecast the developments that will push their fields forward in the year ahead.
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Cinematic and Scientific Techniques Combine to Show How a Long-Extinct Creature Moved
The trolls and orcs in The Lord of the Rings films aren't real. The dragons and dire wolves on the hit television show Game of Thrones are simulated. The dinosaurs...
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Dreaming of Death Rays: The Search for Laser Weapons
Lasers first emerged nearly 60 years ago, but the idea of using powerful beams of heat or light is hardly new.
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Classical and Quantum Computers Are Vying for Superiority
Will 2019 be the year when quantum computers show they have the right stuff? Google says so; one of the company's labs, in Santa Barbara, California, has promised...
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Trolling, Hacking and the 2016 S Presidential Election
Late in 2016, then-US President Barack Obama mused in an interview with The New Yorker magazine that he had probably been elected because his campaign had begun...
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