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The goal put forth by the Turing Test is not a useful one for AI scientists. It is time to set a new challenge that inspires
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Fast Company| January 4, 2021
Seven years ago, a cover of The Economist showed Barack Obama, head down on a Louisiana beach in front of an oil rig—the picture of lonely despair.
Nature From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2017
More than 50 years ago, physicist Richard Feynman spoke of "swallowing the surgeon" in his classic lecture, 'There's plenty of room at the bottom'.
Nature From ACM Opinion | May 24, 2017
Nearly 20 years ago, I was fortunate enough to play friendly blitz chess against former world champion Garry Kasparov.
Nature From ACM Opinion | April 27, 2017
Many scientists worry over the reproducibility of wet-lab experiments, but data scientist Victoria Stodden's focus is on how to validate computational research:...Nature From ACM Opinion | September 15, 2016
In 1816, a teenager began to compose what many view as the first true work of science fiction—and unleashed one of the most subversive attacks on modern science...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 28, 2016
Almost 25 years ago, physicists discovered a way of 'teleporting' a quantum system from one place to another without moving it.Nature From ACM Opinion | April 13, 2016
In 1984, I was part of a team that was developing a receiver for a satellite-navigation system. After weeks of debugging, the blur of random digits settled on a...Nature From ACM Opinion | March 31, 2016
Napoleon had it and so did Charles Darwin. Tennis champion Roger Federer has it in spades. The dictionary defines intuition as knowledge obtained without conscious...Nature From ACM Opinion | January 28, 2016
A Swiss company is set to become the first firm to capture carbon dioxide from the air and sell it on a commercial scale, a stepping stone to larger facilities...Nature From ACM Opinion | December 22, 2015
Today's supercomputers lack the power to model accurately many aspects of the real world, from the impact of cloud systems on Earth's climate to the processing...Nature From ACM Opinion | September 30, 2015
It is thought that studies involving the use of genome-editing tools to modify the DNA of human embryos will be published shortly.Nature From ACM Opinion | March 13, 2015
Interplanetary flight is the next giant leap for humans in space. Yet consensus on even the smallest steps forward has proven elusive.Nature From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2014
Quantum computers of the future will have the potential to give artificial intelligence a major boost, a series of studies suggests.Nature From ACM Opinion | July 30, 2013
Alarming cracks are starting to penetrate deep into the scientific edifice. They threaten the status of science and its value to society. And they cannot be blamed...Nature From ACM Opinion | May 11, 2012