Communications of the ACM
Breaking Up a Digital Monopoly
How to decompose a vertically integrated digital monopoly to enable competitive services based on a shared data structure.
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How to Do Machine Learning without an Army of Data Scientists
Machine learning is still harder than it needs to be, but there are tools that can help
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Embodied AI, Superintelligence, and the Master Algorithm
What will take us from potential to reality in the next 18 months?
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Low-Code Development Could Boost AI Adoption
Artificial intelligence is hard, but low-code options might make it much easier
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Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't Intelligent
The term "artificial intelligence" alone fuels confusion and hype, say some experts
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What Do Developers Want and Need from Secure Coding Training?
There is still confusion about the role developers play in software security
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But Is the Code (Re)usable?
It is crucial to guarantee the reproducibility of reported results, but don't forget to make research artifacts reusable for the scientific community
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How to Create Successful Developer Products
Interested in building software for developers? Follow these three design principles from Akita Software CEO Jean Yang.
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Governing AI Safety through Independent Audits
Governance of highly automated systems is critical to garner widespread public trust
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Artificial Intelligence and the Intelligence Community
The intelligence community's budget and acquisition processes rise to the top of the issues it must address before it can take full advantage of AI
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The U.S. Needs to Get Back in the Business of Making Chips
Pandemic-induced supply disruptions and competition from China pressuring U.S. companies to manufacture semiconductors at home.
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Why Machine Learning Can't Understand Human Language
While larger deep neural networks can incrementally improveme specific tasks, they aren't fit for general natural language understanding.
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Kubernetes Magic Is in Enterprise Standardization, Not App Portability
Kubernetes isn't going to magically make your applications portable, but it just might give you something even better.
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Building Artificial Intelligence: Reward Is Not Enough
Rewards are not enough to build artificial intelligence, says data scientist Herbert Roitblat, countering claims from a recent paper by DeepMind scientists.
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Non-Relational's Quiet Revolution in Databases
It's no longer exciting to talk about the rise of non-relational databases, but it's happening all the same.
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TinyML: What Is It and How Will It Change Machine Learning Best Practices?
TinyML will change machine-learning best practices by encouraging more developers to view it as a viable option.
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Tesla AI Chief Says Self-Driving Cars Don't Need Lidar
Andrej Karpathy shares why the company still believes in a purely vision-based autonomous driving solution.
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The Danger of Anthropomorphic Language in Robotic AI Systems
Clear, non-anthropomorphic language is central to dismantling misconceptions of AI as a black box.
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How Do We Stop the Supercomputing Carbon Crisis?
Efficiency measures are struggling to keep pace with, let alone make headway on, the accelerating demands of modern supercomputers.
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Neo4j's $325 Million Venture Suggests Databases Are Cool Again
Relational databases aren't dead, but database innovation is cropping up in all sorts of places now, including graph databases.
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