The TikTok Ban and Its Consequences
The Supreme Court’s unsigned opinion upholding the TikTok ban sidesteps almost all of the major legal issues in the case.
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Does AI Prediction Scale to Decision Making?
AI has no mechanism for making predictions or generating unique outputs well beyond its training data.
Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity
It’s time for new integrity-focused standards to enable the trusted AI services of tomorrow.
Very clever proofs show that efficient and parallel computation can be used to achieve the same results as slower serial methods.
Autonomy 2.0: The Quest for Economies of Scale
An ever-evolving software stack and the digital twin paradigm will significantly accelerate progress in the autonomy industry.
Panmodal Information Interaction
Emerging modalities that complement search have created new possibilities for information interaction.
Social media echo chambers intensified by algorithms create an environment in which beliefs are seldom challenged.
Co-pilots sit behind you and your code whispering semantic nothings in your ear.
The incorporation of generative AI has fundamentally changed the nature of data annotation tasks in crowd work.
Artificial Intelligence as Catalyst for Biodiversity Understanding
AI should be a bridge rather than a barrier to the biological sciences' pursuit of understanding and preserving the natural world.
Putting the Smarts into Robot Bodies
Delving into the key tradeoffs of building foundation models for embodied AI systems.
A Glimpse Into the Pandora’s Box
A combination of safety measures and safety labels should be developed and employed on how AI models in applications analyze camera frames in real time.
Abstraction is a by-product of computer science's central purpose, understanding information processes.
Homo Ratiocinator (Reckoning Human)
After 40,000 years of making tools for computing and reasoning, it is time for Homo Ratiocinator to live up to its traditional name, Homo Sapiens.
"LLMs might get it sort of right some of the time, but nowhere near as reliably as the average person."
A fundamental paradox riddles much of today’s mainstream AI alignment research, and the community needs to find ways to mitigate it.
Should governments decide what regulations are necessary to ensure safe development and deployment of AI technologies?
It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety
Memory-safety standardization is an essential step to promoting universal strong memory safety in government and industry, and to ensure access to more secure software for all.
Investigating Research Software Engineering: Toward RSE Research
It is necessary to build better domain-specific tooling to address the domain-specific challenges of research software and to establish RSE Research as a research field over RSE.
Building Safer and Interoperable AI Systems
AI agents are now contemplated that can interact with each other and with information sources on the Internet. What could go wrong?
Strong community support and ongoing innovation keep the Go programming language at the forefront of cloud development.
It simply is not appropriate to write code that will be connected to the Internet in an unsafe language such as C.
Artificial Intelligence Then and Now
Branding large language models as artificial intelligence primes customers to believe they have capabilities they lack.
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