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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
Three computer bugs this year exposed passwords, e-mails, financial data, and other kinds of sensitive information connected to potentially billions of people.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 5, 2014
In 1942, the science fiction author Isaac Asimov published a short story called Runaround in which he introduced three laws that governed the behaviour of robots...Technology Review From ACM News | May 16, 2014
In 1969, Playboy published a long, freewheeling interview with Marshall McLuhan in which the media theorist and sixties icon sketched a portrait of the future that...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 24, 2014
Google Glass shares much of its electronics and software with the smartphone, but it's a very different machine.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 19, 2014
In the movie Her, which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture this year, a middle-aged writer named Theodore Twombly installs and rapidly falls in love with...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | January 24, 2014
A silver BMW 5 Series is weaving through traffic at roughly 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph) on a freeway that cuts northeast through Bavaria between Munich and...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2013
The sixth most widely used website in the world is not run anything like the others in the top 10.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 24, 2013
On the day after Aaron Swartz's death in January, President Reif and I spoke about how MIT might respond to the breaking news of his suicide.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 4, 2013
Last week, I visited the MIT computer science department looking for a very famous cryptographer.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 17, 2013
Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 19, 2013
Driving on Interstate 495 toward Boston in a Ford Fusion one chilly afternoon in March, I did something that would've made even my laid-back long-ago driving instructor...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 16, 2013
Last week, President Obama officially announced $100 million in funding for arguably the most ambitious neuroscience initiative ever proposed.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 8, 2013
A decade-plus of anthropological fieldwork among hackers and like-minded geeks has led me to the firm conviction that these people are building one of the most...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2013
The amount of time and money needed to sequence genomes continued to fall in 2012, perhaps to no one’s surprise.Technology Review From ACM News | January 8, 2013
If China's ultimate aim in the sphere of technology is to become completely self-sufficient, it is well on the way to achieving this ambitious goal.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2012
In 1979, I was an aeronautical-engineering major at San Jose State University, sneaking time in the laser lab to make holograms or running over to the computer...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2012
Since 1978, the Chinese economy has seen phenomenal growth. While that’s not in dispute, the reason why China has managed to grow so fast and whether it can maintain...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 19, 2012
If you were asked to name the most important innovation in transportation over the last 200 years, you might say the combustion engine, air travel, Henry Ford’s...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 3, 2012