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Apr 18 2023

ChatGPT Helps or Hurts our Cybersecurity?

The specter is that when fully mature, this technology would be able to generate undetectable attacks and the defenders will be constantly fighting these fires. I do not subscribe to this dystopian view of the future.

Saurabh Bagchi

Architecture and Hardware

Apr 13 2023

What Can the FATE Community Learn from the Successes and Failures in Privacy?

There are many similarities between FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics) and privacy, and I believe that there are a lot of lessons that the FATE community can learn from past work, successes, and failures in privacy.

Jason Hong

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Apr 6 2023

A Year Embedded in the Crypto-NFT Space

From digital ownership to artistic communities.

Carlos Baquero

Computing Applications

Mar 31 2023

The Imperativity of Algorithms

The important named algorithms that we call upon deserve a robust ontology.

Robin K. Hill

Computing Applications

Mar 27 2023

Automatic Language Translation Still Unsatisfactory

Google Translate and DeepL Translate still have trouble recognizing the second person singular and plural and the polite form, even in very simple sentences.

Herbert Bruderer

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 27 2023

The Sparks of AGI? Or the End of Science?

Marching into the future with an obstructed view.

Gary Marcus

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 24 2023

Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners: Part Three

How we took advantage of students' expertise in the application domain component of data science.

Orit Hazzan and Dafna Gelbgiser

Education

Mar 23 2023

Artificial Intelligence Without Real Intelligence?

Do the programs understand what they write?

Herbert Bruderer

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 23 2023

AI in the Public Interest: Education and Democracy

Now is a critical time to vigorously pursue public interests in education and to avoid a slippery slide into yielding public governance to an entirely private market view of how AI should be made available to students, teachers, and educational institutions. We need to strengthen governance of public data and more strongly shape the market for AI in education.

Jeremy Roschelle

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 16 2023

Why Businesses Must Untether Deep Learning

Deep learning only took a few years to make the leap from another theoretical piece of future-tech to a very real tool that's already making an impact on the business world.

Vivienne Sze

Computing Profession

Mar 15 2023

GPT-4’s Successes, and GPT-4’s Failures

How GPT-4 fits into the larger tapestry of the quest for artificial general intelligence.

Gary Marcus

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 9 2023

Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners: Part Two

"When I heard we will be learning Python, I became anxious."

Orit Hazzan and Dafna Gelbgiser

Computing Profession

Mar 8 2023

Cybersecurity Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs

Preventing unauthorized access or misuse of confidential data.

Alex Vakulov

Computing Profession

Mar 8 2023

Twiddler: Configurability for Me, but Not for Thee

Online platform businesses have a distinctly more abusive and sinister character than brick-and-mortar retail chains.

Cory Doctorow

Computing Profession

Mar 8 2023

The Urgency of the Technological, Geopolitical, and Sustainability Races

The HiPEAC Vision 2023.

Marc Duranton

Computing Profession

Mar 2 2023

Enabling AI Projects In An Enterprise

Identifying the development behaviors that have the highest chance of success for artificial intelligence efforts.

Doug Meil

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mar 1 2023

Serendipity: When Research in One Area Leads to a Positive Result in Another

A problem of the extremely optimal family of circulant graphs: when research in one scientific field gives an unexpected result in another.

Andrei Sukhov and Aleksandr Romanov

Computing Profession

Feb 22 2023

Teaching Data Science Research Methods to Human Resources Practitioners — Part One

The challenge was to teach data science concepts to students who have gaps in their computer science background and are experts in human resources management and practice.

Orit Hazzan and Dafna Gelbgiser

Education

Feb 21 2023

How Not to Test GPT-3

Why doing psychology on large language models is harder than you might think.

Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Feb 21 2023

Why *is* Bing So Reckless?

And how did some prominent journalists utterly miss this initially?

Gary Marcus

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Feb 17 2023

Using GitHub CoPilot is Like Having a Superpower

With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) and tools like GitHub CoPilot, I think we’re a step closer towards a world where software can be created by anyone. In fact, my colleague Brad Myers, who has investigated end-user programming for decades, believes that CoPilot is the biggest change to programming since Google search. I think this may be understating things. We’re going to see a wave of new kinds of software programming tools based on LLMs, and they will be transformative in how developers build and evaluate computer systems.

Jason Hong

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Feb 16 2023

ChatGPT for Provost!

Three to five years from now, we won’t be talking about what ChatGPT can or can’t do, but we could be talking about how ChatGPT brought us all together, and the intellectual culture of the university began to shift.

Jeremy Roschelle

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Feb 13 2023

What Google Should Really Be Worried About

How sewers of lies could spell the end of Web search.

Gary Marcus

Computing Applications

Feb 13 2023

What is an Author?

In a single-author text (such as this one), we can assume a lot about the process. In the multi-author case, all these assumptions start to break down.

Carlos Baquero

Computing Profession

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