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It's become easier to create lifelike AI avatars of people who have passed away.
More Efficient Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Researchers are exploring ways to reduce a quantum system's lopsided ratio of error-correction qubits to logical qubits.
Forget the Catastrophic Forgetting
Researchers are working to counteract catastrophic forgetting by AI systems when they are trained for new tasks.
Can ChatGPT Learn Chinese or Swahili?
Large language models might act differently if trained in different languages.
How the surprising water footprint of semiconductor manufacturing, datacenters, and AI solutions is sparking sustainable development.
Answers Begin to Surface to Deep Earth Puzzles
Evidence from high orbit is helping to shape understanding of the churning processes that shape oceans and continents.
Governments Setting Limits on AI
Many countries and regions are considering, or trying to implement, regulations on the training and use of artificial intelligence.
Will generative artificial intelligence accelerate the growth of made-for-advertising sites?
Edge AI Devices Eye Lifetime Learning
Helping artificial intelligence to adapt and learn, now and later.
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
Despite concerns, autonomous AI weapons and defense systems for military applications are on the rise.
Communications of the ACM is now a fully Open Access publication, which means that more than six decades of our renowned research articles, seminal papers, technical reports, commentaries, real-world practice, and news articles are now open to everyone.
The overriding philosophy of computing pioneer Niklaus Wirth, who died on January 1, 2024, was that systems should be simple, efficient, and “elegant.”
Transitioning from classic 'programmed automation' to modern 'AI-powered autonomy.'
The Battle to Mitigate E-Waste
As electronic waste grows by the metric ton, companies and citizens work to stem the tide.
After years and many attempts to build out a metaverse and make use of it, is there anything out there?
If We Could Talk to the Animals
Can artificial intelligence overcome the communication barriers between species?
By Eugene H. Spafford, with assistance by Simson Garfinkel John Rischard Rice, a leading scientist and educator, died at home on Jan. 7, 2024. Rice was the W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and a professor of mathematics at Purdue University. Rice was born June 6, 1934, in Tulsa, OK, to Margaret […]
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