Communications of the ACM
How Many Ways Can You Teach a Robot?
ACM Prize recipient Pieter Abbeel is working to help robots learn, and learn to improve.
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Avoiding Defects in C Programming
Computer security specialist details tools and techniques developers can use to write secure code in C
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The Dangers of Treating AI like a God
We should be more critical of those making decisions about how AI is used, says anthropologist Beth Singler
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Robot Learning at Google and Generalization via Language
Google Robotics research scientist Eric Jang talks about robotic manipulation and self-supervised robotic learning
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Crypto Means Freedom to Garry Kasparov
The chess grandmaster expects a basket of coins to replace the dollar within a decade.
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The Benefits of Rust
An in-depth discussion about the virtue of Rust, its future, and more
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What Does the Data Say about the Current State of K-12 STEM Education in the U.S.?
A conversation with Julia Phillips of the National Science Board on the state of elementary and secondary STEM education in the nation.
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How Much Has Quantum Computing Actually Advanced?
John Martinis, former chief architect of Google Sycamore, offers a measured perspective on quantum's progress
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The Intersection of Math, Computers, and Everything Else
MIT senior Shardul Chiplunkar aims to be a translator between the tech world and the rest of society
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Human-Centered Explainable AI and Social Transparency
An interview with doctoral candidate Upol Ehsan, who researched human-centered explainable AI
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The Father of Web3 Wants You to Trust Less
Gavin Wood believes decentralized technologies are the only hope of preserving liberal democracy
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A Fix-It Job for Government Tech
To build trust in the government, it would help if the website worked
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China's AI Dream and the AI 'Arms Race'
Stanford postdoctoral fellow discusses research exploring impact of AI in a possible U.S.-China power transition
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Self-Supervised Learning and Large Language Models
Stanford PhD student discusses recent research on understanding, building, and controlling pre-trained models
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Imagining AI's Potential for Good
Kai-Fu Lee and Yoky Matsuoka discuss "human-in-the-loop" technology, and how AI might be used for health and caregiving
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AI Is Not A-OK
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says humans will need to find a way to coexist with artificial intelligence
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Henry Kissinger's Last Crusade: Stopping Dangerous AI
Former secretary of state has a whole new area of interest: artificial intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down
Timnit Gebru believes the incentives around AI research are all wrong
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Meta's Andrew Bosworth on Moving Facebook to the Metaverse
'The magnitude of technological shifts that we are trying to manifest here hasn't been attempted in a long time'
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RL Benchmarking, Climate Impacts of AI, and AI for Law
Stanford JD-PhD candidate Peter Henderson talks about creating robust decision-making systems and ML methods that benefit society
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