Communications of the ACM
Don't Be Dazzled by Claims of Artificial Intelligence
Media coverage must hold tech companies to account over claims about AI.
From ACM Opinion
RL Benchmarking, Climate Impacts of AI, and AI for Law
Stanford JD-PhD candidate Peter Henderson talks about creating robust decision-making systems and ML methods that benefit society
From ACM Opinion
Complexity Is Killing Software Developers
How to regain control, without losing out on the best these technologies have to offer
From ACM Opinion
The Metaverse Is Simply Big Tech, but Bigger
It's a rebrand of Silicon Valley's increasing power and reach, and it's made for companies, not people
From ACM Opinion
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
From ACM Opinion
Strong AI Requires Autonomous Building of Composable Models
Models built by AI must encode the fundamental patterns of experience
From ACM Opinion
Jeannette Wing: How Computing Has Transformed
Data science expert talks about how trustworthy AI and causal reasoning can help society solve real-world problems
From ACM Opinion
Who Is Writing Our Digital Future, and Why It Matters?
The world is not built for everybody—we must make sure every voice is heard and every body seen
From ACM Opinion
Avoiding AI's Bad Reputation
AI-based advertising models 'give tech a bad name,' says Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost
From ACM Opinion
Where Computing Might Go Next
The future of computing depends in part on how we reckon with its past
From ACM Opinion
Wall Street Doesn't Care about the Facebook Leaks, but Mark Zuckerberg Does
Facebook's numbers are doing fine for now, but not its reputation
From ACM Opinion
How to Expand and Improve CS Education Around the World
Six recommendations to take CS education to scale at primary and secondary school levels
From ACM Opinion
How AI Is Reinventing What Computers Are
Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute
From Communications of the ACM
We Are Not Users: Gaining Control Over New Technologies
Seeking a more selective approach to technology usage.
From ACM Opinion
Programming Hate into AI Will Be Controversial, but Possibly Necessary
For a created consciousness to make value judgments, both liking and disliking functions must be part of the system.
From ACM Opinion
Moving Towards Reproducible Machine Learning
Reporting machine learning-based research can help to improve transparency and reproducibility
From ACM Opinion
In Favor of More Science Communication by AI Researchers
Those developing AI should do more to fix the misunderstanding, hype, and misinformation that surrounds it
From ACM Opinion
The Uselessness of Useful Knowledge
Today's powerful but little-understood AI breakthroughs echo past examples of unexpected scientific progress
From ACM Opinion
Transparency Can Help Fix Social Media—if Anyone Can Define It
Transparency promises users more insight into and power over social media services, but also signals how much we must figure out
From ACM Opinion