Communications of the ACM
Virtual Reality Stinks Because It Does Not Smell
For VR to feel truly immersive, it needs to start stinking it up.
From ACM Opinion
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.
From ACM Opinion
Deep Learning Is a Bad Idea for Security
Deep learning must address some major issues before AI can scale more widely into security applications
From ACM Opinion
Why Better AI May Depend on Fake Data
Synthetic data can provide AI with a broader education than real-world data, but challenges exist
From ACM Opinion
An AWS Inconvenience
The company's recent outage took down Adele, Netflix, Tinder, and more, but it could've been worse
From ACM Opinion
AI Needs to Prevent Cyberattacks, Not Just Detect Them
AI should be enabling faster, automated, more ubiquitous prevention of cyberattacks
From ACM Opinion
Where Should Information Go to Be Safe?
Enterprise data is safest in the cloud and in the 'fog', according to one expert
From ACM Opinion
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