Communications of the ACM
Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
By knitting together multiple components and data streams, multimodal AI offers the promise of smarter, more human-like systems… From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Competition Makes Big Datasets the Winners
Measurement has driven research groups to home in on the most popular datasets, but that may change as metrics shift to real-world quality.
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Neural Networks Learn to Speed Up Simulations
Physics-informed machine learning is gaining attention, but suffers from training issues.
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Shrinking Artificial Intelligence
Energy concerns push AI optimizations to the edge.
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Holograms on the Horizon?
Machine learning drives toward 3D imaging on the move.
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Let the Algorithm Decide?
Algorithms fail their first test to replace student exams.
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The Best of NLP
Natural language processing delves more deeply into its knowledge gap.
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Coalition of the Willing Takes Aim at COVID-19
Data science can only do so much in the face of a pandemic.
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Malevolent Machine Learning
AI attacks throw light on the nature of deep learning.
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Hidden Messages Fool AI
Forced errors focus attention on neural network quirks.
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Learning to See
Machine learning turns the spotlight on elusive viruses.
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Floating Voxels Provide New Hope for 3D Displays
In search of holograms that can be viewed from any angle.
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Animals Teach Robots to Find Their Way
Navigation research demonstrates bio-machine symbiosis.
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Deep Learning Hunts for Signals Among the Noise
Neural networks can deliver surprising, and sometimes unwanted, results.
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Self-Repair Techniques Point to Robots That Design Themselves
Robots are being taught to brainstorm alternatives when damaged.
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Brain Science Helps Computers Separate Speakers in a Crowded Room
People can listen to a single voice amid the hubbub of a cocktail party; algorithms can help computers do it, too.
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Secure-System Designers Strive to STEM Data Leaks
Attackers using side-channel analysis require little knowledge of how an implementation operates.
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Decoding the Language of Human Movement
Computers that recognize what is happening in moving images can help defend against crime, and revolutionize rehabilitation.
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Researchers Probe Security Through Obscurity
Obfuscation protects code by making it so impenetrable that access to it won't help a hacker understand how it works.12