Communications of the ACM
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Deep Learning Can't Be Trusted
Brain modeling pioneer Stephen Grossberg explains why his ART model is better
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The Benefits of Rust
An in-depth discussion about the virtue of Rust, its future, and more
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What Does It Mean for AI to Understand?
It's simple enough for AI to seem to comprehend data, but devising a true test of a machine's knowledge has proved difficult
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The Growing Cost of Deep Learning for Source Code
Attempting to mitigate problems associated with the trend toward massive dataset scaling.
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The Long Road Ahead to Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Anticipating the output of the competition for new cryptographic algorithms.
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How Much Has Quantum Computing Actually Advanced?
John Martinis, former chief architect of Google Sycamore, offers a measured perspective on quantum's progress
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Why We Must Rethink AI Benchmarks
While helpful in comparing AI performance, benchmarks are often taken out of context, sometimes to harmful results
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What Every Engineer and Computer Scientist Should Know: The Biggest Contributor to Happiness
Seeking the fundamental factors instrumental to happiness.
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Accelerator-Level Parallelism
Charging computer scientists to develop the science needed to best achieve the performance and cost goals of accelerator-level parallelism hardware and software...
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Self-Supervised Learning and Large Language Models
Stanford PhD student discusses recent research on understanding, building, and controlling pre-trained models
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'Yeah, We're Spooked', Says Expert about AI's Potential Impact
Professor Stuart Russell says field of AI needs to grow up quickly to ensure humans remain in control
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Anne Carpenter: Her Machine Learning Tools Pull Insights from Cell Images
Computational biologist brings the power of machine learning to researchers seeking answers in mountains of cell images
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Strong AI Requires Autonomous Building of Composable Models
Models built by AI must encode the fundamental patterns of experience
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Jeannette Wing: How Computing Has Transformed
Data science expert talks about how trustworthy AI and causal reasoning can help society solve real-world problems
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We Are Not Users: Gaining Control Over New Technologies
Seeking a more selective approach to technology usage.
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Privacy Engineering Superheroes
Privacy engineers are essential to both preventing and responding to organizational privacy problems.
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