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The Continual Re-Creation Of The Key-Value Datastore
The evolution of single machine key-value stores.
From BLOG@CACM
On the Ethics of Writing With AIs
AI-generated text, even if accepted from an ethical standpoint, raises questions about the provenance of the generated text.
From BLOG@CACM
Communing on Computing
Conferences can renew our professional commitment and inspire thought on problems we face.
From BLOG@CACM
AI as (an Ersatz) Natural Science?
The emergence of large learned models is changing the nature of artificial intelligence research in fundamental ways.
From BLOG@CACM
Machine Learning: Out! Data Science: In!
We propose to stop teaching machine learning courses to populations whose core discipline is neither computer science nor mathematics and statistics.
From BLOG@CACM
Students Speak to Ethical Issues
What are the concerns of students after study of computer ethics?
From BLOG@CACM
Your Job Can Be Done Better By My Algorithm
In our rarefied world of university teaching and learning, which jobs can be replaced by algorithms?
From BLOG@CACM
Superhero Secret Identities Aren't Possible with Today's Computing Technologies
In comic books, most superheroes have a secret identity, usually to protect their friends and family from retribution. However, today’s computer technology would...
From BLOG@CACM
Experiencing Loops in Time
We don't experience program loops as blocks, started over, because time is one-way.
From BLOG@CACM
AI Education for Teens: Lifting the Hood on Data and Machine Learning
What are key ideas and intuitions foundational to AI that AI education in secondary schools should target? This blog post describes our approach to teaching AI...
From BLOG@CACM
Safe AI in Education Needs You
Artificial intelligence is coming to your learners and will raise challenging issues that need experts like you. Learn how you can get involved in AI and Educational...
From BLOG@CACM
Language Imitation Games and the Arrival of Broad and Shallow AI
On the impact of large language models.
From BLOG@CACM
Safe Space for Alt-Views
Not everyone who questions computational hegemony is appealing to magic, mysticism, or divinity.
From BLOG@CACM
We Are Camille
Who is Camille Noûs, who has contributed to hundreds of papers on Google Scholar?
From BLOG@CACM
Misnomer and Malgorithm
The algorithm should be respected; the malgorithm should be rejected.
From BLOG@CACM
AI or Intelligence Augmentation for Education?
Applications of artificial intelligence to education are spreading and intensifying, but we have the acronym backwards. Building ethical, equitable applications...
From BLOG@CACM
Auditing AI and Autonomous Systems; Building an Infrastructure of Trust
How do we build trust? How can we systematically assure trust in our systems? How would auditing AI and autonomous systems contribute to this goal? Explaining...
From BLOG@CACM
Time to Assess National AI Policies
The Center for AI and Digital Policy has undertaken the first comparative review of national artificial intelligence policies.
From BLOG@CACM
Things To Do To An Algorithm
What happens when people's fate hangs on machine learning?
From BLOG@CACM