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Claims that an AI has achieved human levels of understanding should be approached with skepticism until it can be shown that
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Mind Matters| May 10, 2022
President Obama rattled the internet this week when he unloaded his opinion on net neutrality, the notion that all internet traffic should be treated equally.Wired From ACM Opinion | November 14, 2014
A few months ago I made the trek to the sylvan campus of the IBM research labs in Yorktown Heights, New York, to catch an early glimpse of the fast-arriving, long...Wired From ACM Opinion | October 27, 2014
Non-human employees are filling positions in all sorts of workplaces, and they are proving themselves to be fast, accurate, and reliable—more so than their human...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 28, 2014
I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2014
My expectations were low when I asked the National Security Agency to cooperate with my story on the impact of Edward Snowden’s leaks on the tech industry.Wired From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2014
It is now 30 years since I launched the campaign for freedom in computing, that is, for software to be free or "libre" (we use that word to emphasize that we're...Wired From ACM Opinion | October 1, 2013
Physically, the NSA has always been well protected by miles of high fences and electrified wire, thousands of cameras, and gun-toting guards.Wired From ACM Opinion | June 14, 2013
Apple's closed ecosystem is losing the battle for how we connect our mobile devices to accessories as open solutions like Bluetooth dominate over Apple's proprietary...Wired From ACM Careers | May 8, 2013
Bitcoin. Everybody's talking about it. What's true, and what's hype? Perhaps the only thing that's clear about Bitcoin is that it's not going away anytime soon.Wired From ACM Opinion | May 6, 2013
Whether you call it a data-driven prediction or think of it as a self-fulfilling prophecy, Moore's Law has been going strong.Wired From ACM Opinion | April 17, 2013
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments.Wired From ACM Careers | March 18, 2013