Communications of the ACM
It Is Time to Let Go of 'Virtual Reality'
Advocating standardized terminology and reporting guidelines for mixed reality research.
From ACM Opinion
Open Source Intelligence
Averting strategic surprises requires uncovering secrets hidden in plain sight
From Communications of the ACM
Is Your Autonomous Vehicle as Smart as You Expected?
Suggesting a better route to evaluate autonomous vehicles' smartness.
From Communications of the ACM
A Brave New World of Mediated Online Discourse
Is artificial intelligence up to the task of managing online discourse in social networks?
From ACM Opinion
Facebook's Unglamorous Mistakes
Facebook's little mistakes have big consequences, too, but only for us
From ACM Opinion
Is LiDAR on Its Way Out?
As automation proliferates, sensing is increasingly moving toward software and away from LiDAR
From ACM Opinion
Why the FTC Attempt to Stop Tech 'Surveillance' Faces Long Odds
Lina Khan's FTC has experienced a series of delays in trying to enact new privacy rules
From ACM Opinion
Dems Will Probably Miss Chance to Shape Crypto Regulation
Both houses of Congress are back in session with a packed agenda, and way down on that priority list is regulating crypto
From ACM Opinion
I Am Therefore I Think
Scientists say social interaction is 'the dark matter of AI'
From ACM Opinion
Individual AI, a New Technology that Will Change Our World?
Is the next version of AI a technological symbiosis of the human brain and the computer system?
From ACM Opinion
Deep Learning Can't Be Trusted
Brain modeling pioneer Stephen Grossberg explains why his ART model is better
From ACM Opinion
Save Social Media by Treating It like a City
Make online spaces more similar to offline ones to limit the reach of bad actors and keep people safe
From ACM Opinion
Does AI Understand Our Language?
Can large language models teach us about the nature of language, understanding, intelligence, sociality, and personhood?
From ACM Opinion
The Future of Robot Nannies
A machine can't love our children, but our children might love them
From ACM Opinion
Why It's Too Early to Get Excited About Web3
Idealism surrounding the Web3 vision is great, but we’ve been there before
From ACM Opinion
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
From ACM Opinion
Caution Ahead: Navigating Risks to Freedoms Posed by AI
Applications of AI could pierce through boundaries that safeguard our rights and liberties
From Communications of the ACM