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Jul 30 2023

Computer scientists should inform the public that human tests are not a valid way to judge the quality of an AI model, nor a good way to compare AI models to human experts. Computer scientists should stop using human tests to measure AI.

Jeremy Roschelle

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jul 29 2023

Bigger than a Blackbox

When we ask how deep learning works, are we asking which node represents the answer to "animal, vegetable, or mineral?"

Robin K. Hill

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jul 26 2023

The Dissemination Game: Incentives of In-Person vs Virtual Participation

Incentives are changing the effectiveness of computer science conferences, but perhaps better conference design can improve them.

Jason Harline

Computing Profession

Jul 17 2023

Why They’re Worried

Summarizing experts' motivations for signing the 'Pause Letter.'

Isabella Struckman and Sofie Kupiec

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jul 17 2023

Is Bard Better than ChatGPT?

A test should show whether Bard is more powerful than ChattGPT or AI-powered Microsoft Bing.

Herbert Bruderer

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jul 14 2023

Egalitarian Authorship

Is there a way to provide egalitarian authorship to papers?

Carlos Baquero

Computing Profession

Jul 10 2023

An Organizational Perspective on the Process of Adopting Executable Exams

We analyze the organizational change that took place at the Technion when the assessment method in the CS1 course changed from paper-based exams to executable exams.

Yael Erez and Orit Hazzan

Education

Jul 5 2023

Lessons from PL/I: A Most Ambitious Programming Language

PL/I stands for Programming Language 1, and its aim was to be the Highlander of programming languages.

Doug Meil

Computing Applications

Jul 5 2023

VOT Challenge: Computer Vision Competition

VOT Challenge is one of the outstanding competitions in computer vision. At the end of this important event this year, I would like to share my opinions about this competition.

Aleksandr Romanov and Roman Solovyev

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jun 19 2023

ChatGPT Invents a Lot of Nonsense

I asked ChatGPT who wrote the book "Meilensteine der Rechentechnik." The program returns many different answers, all wrong.

Herbert Bruderer

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jun 19 2023

Exponential Protests

Exponential organizations offer an appropriate organized structure for the current Israeli protest, and maybe for other cases of civil resistance.

Orit Hazzan

Computing Profession

Jun 12 2023

Two Models of AI Oversight — and How Things Could Go Deeply Wrong

It's good that governments are stepping up, but some of the signals are deeply worrisome.

Gary Marcus

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jun 12 2023

The Hadoop Ecosystem’s Continued Impact

Hadoop owed much to the Google GFS, MapReduce, and BigTable papers, but it was also a response to a broader technology community need.

Doug Meil

Computing Applications

Jun 5 2023

ChatGPT is Not a Technological Singularity

It will take many years before generative artificial intelligence has a measurable effect on the economy as a whole.

Daniel Lemire

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jun 5 2023

What Does AI-Powered Microsoft Bing Say?

The answers from the AI-powered Microsoft Bing are often useless.

Herbert Bruderer

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Jun 3 2023

AI Does Not Help Programmers

Getting past the"Wow" effect.

Bertrand Meyer

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

May 31 2023

Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners – Part 4

We believe programming experience is crucial for human resources practitioners in the data and tech era.

Orit Hazzan and Dafna Gelbgiser

Computing Profession

May 31 2023

Navigating the 2023 Cybersecurity Landscape

The importance of information security technologies cannot be overstated, given how deeply integrated gadgets have become in our lives.

Alex Vakulov

Computing Profession

May 28 2023

Education is Always Changing: We Need to Define CS to Keep the Good Stuff

Hype and fashion cycles drive education change. Let's protect the good stuff.

Mark Guzdial

Education

May 27 2023

Pedagogical Paths Through Ethics

Concepts of ethics can be integrated into lessons that reflect contemporary concerns and involve student knowledge of modern technology.

Robin K. Hill

Education

May 23 2023

How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction

Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based on anything we know about science, logic, and nothing we even know about ourselves.

Walid S. Saba

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Northeastern University Senior Research Scientist Walid Saba

May 22 2023

Beyond Passwords: The Path to Stronger Authentication Mechanisms

The inherent risks associated with passwords stem from their very nature.

Alex Vakulov

Security and Privacy

May 17 2023

A Turning Point for U.S. AI Policy: Senate Explores Solutions

Preparing for the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence.

Marc Rotenberg

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

May 9 2023

Creating Organizational Sustainability by Connecting to National Core Values

The FIRST ISRAEL organization is working to increase its presence in the Israeli geographic periphery by exploiting Israel's social orientation and its strength in STEM education.

Orit Hazzan and Zafit Lukach

Computing Profession

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