Communications of the ACM
Is AI Leading to a Reproducibility Crisis In Science?
Scientists worry that ill-informed use of artificial intelligence is driving a deluge of unreliable or useless research.
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Musk Will Take Questions from Twitter Employees—Twitter Should Answer His
The company risks losing the trust of users and investors if it does not tackle the issue of bots, spam, and fake accounts.
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Crypto Is Crashing Again but Blockchain Will Survive
The practical, real-world work of developing blockchain technology will keep on going, independent of market histrionics.
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'Sentience' Is the Wrong Discussion to Have on AI Right Now
A more important conversation would be one about human compatibility and trust.
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Google's 'Sentient' Chatbot Is Our Self-Deceiving Future
The next generation of AI will put the pathetic fallacy on steroids.
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Science Needs to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint
Greenhouse gas emissions from research damage the climate.
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Human-Like Programs Abuse Our Empathy
It is easy to be fooled by the mimicry, but consumers need transparency about how such systems are used.
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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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'AI Is Invisible'
Wendy Hall, computer scientist and acting chair of the AI Council, talks about challenging perceptions around AI.
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How Smarter AI Will Change Creativity
The promise and perils of a breakthrough in machine intelligence.
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Why Robots Need to See
Cameras and vision-based perception will increasingly serve as the technological underpinning for mobile robots going forward.
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AI Is Ushering In a New Scientific Revolution
AI is transforming the scientific process, automating and adding to what people can accomplish using it.
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Political Affiliation Influences Our Fear of Data Collection
It's not government Americans don't trust with their data; it's the opposite political party.
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Artificial General Intelligence Is Not as Imminent as You Might Think
A close look reveals that the newest systems, including DeepMind's much-hyped Gato, are still stymied by the same old problems.
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Democracy Deserves Better Algorithms
Big Tech could deploy any number of solutions to slow the spread of disinformation, with the most promising being to fix the algorithms.
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'I Don't Really Trust Papers Out of Top AI Labs Anymore'
The AI domain is grappling with the replication crisis that has gripped the scientific community for ages, mostly because researchers often don't share their source...
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We Should Not Try to Make Conscious Software—Until We Should
Eventually, the most ethical option might be to divert all resources toward building very happy machines.
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Why All Cryptocurrency Should 'Die in a Fire'
Computer scientist Nicholas Weaver thinks cryptocurrency is a terrible idea that will end in disaster.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Breaking Patent Law
Inventions devised by machines require their own intellectual property law and an international treaty.
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