Communications of the ACM
Quantifying Computing Power and Innovation
Rapid increases in chip speed and power have fueled innovation in many industries, but the future trajectory of that progress…
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It's Time for AI to Retire the Turing Test
The Turing Test's most troubling legacy is an ethical one: It is fundamentally about deception.
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Deep Learning Is a Bad Idea for Security
Deep learning must address some major issues before AI can scale more widely into security applications
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Why Better AI May Depend on Fake Data
Synthetic data can provide AI with a broader education than real-world data, but challenges exist
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An AWS Inconvenience
The company's recent outage took down Adele, Netflix, Tinder, and more, but it could've been worse
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AI Needs to Prevent Cyberattacks, Not Just Detect Them
AI should be enabling faster, automated, more ubiquitous prevention of cyberattacks
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Where Should Information Go to Be Safe?
Enterprise data is safest in the cloud and in the 'fog', according to one expert
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Did DeepMind Just Take a Big Step Toward More Human-Like AI?
DeepMind researchers have created software agents that navigate a three-dimensional game world called XLand, where the agents learn from experience, by trial and...
From ACM Opinion