Communications of the ACM
Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows
COBOL is one of the top mainframe programming languages in use, but most schools and universities have not taught COBOL in decades.
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Researchers Taught an Algorithm to 'Taste'
Scientists taught an algorithm to better predict an individual's tastes in wines.
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Using LLMs to Code New Tasks for Robots
A research team developed a tool that uses large language models to code new tasks for robots, which it then simulates.
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Crowdsourced Feedback Helps Train Robots
A reinforcement learning approach trains robots using crowdsourced feedback from nonexpert users.
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Robot Can Tidy Up Clothes in a Messy Bedroom
Ken Goldberg at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues developed a robot system to efficiently pick up strewn clothes.
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Outdated Password Practices are Widespread
Researchers say a majority of the world’s most popular websites put users and their data at risk by failing to meet minimum password requirement standards.
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Apple to Make It Easier to Text Between iPhones, Androids
Apple will adopt a technological standard next year that will allow text messaging to operate more smoothly between its iOS devices and Android devices.
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Revamping Python for an AI World
Mojo has the same syntax as Python, but runs up to 35,000 times faster.
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How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of Facebook
Meta's goal is to get more people to use more of its apps and to monetize those people to the greatest extent possible.
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Engineers Are on a Failure-Finding Mission
An algorithm developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers aims to identify potential failures in simulated autonomous systems prior to their real...
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Kids with Disabilities Are Gamers, Too
Students developed prototype assistive technologies that could enable children with cerebral palsy to play video games.
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Vision via Sound for the Blind
Scientists have created "acoustic touch" technology that uses sound to help blind people "see."
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Smart Scalpel Helps Doctors Hone Surgical Skills
A smart scalpel developed by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Edinburgh measures the amount of force applied during surgical procedures and could facilitate...
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The App Store–But for Cars–May Not be Far Off
Automaker General Motors has released a suite of open source application programming interfaces so software developers can build apps that integrate with connected...
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Researchers Say Guardrails Built Around A.I. Systems Are Not So Sturdy
OpenAI now lets outsiders tweak what its chatbot does. A new paper says that can lead to trouble.
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Medical Imaging Fails Dark Skin. Researchers Fixed It
A team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University developed a way to produce clear images of anyone's internal anatomy, no matter their skin tone.
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Glasses Transcribe Speech in Real Time
Several companies have started marketing "live-captioning glasses" to help hearing-impaired users communicate by overlaying real-time transcribed speech on the...
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Disney Packs Big Emotion into Little Robot
A team of Disney Research scientists last week unveiled a bipedal robotic character combining a child-size frame with stubby legs, wiggling antennae, and an expressive...
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AI Beats Human Sleuth at Finding Problematic Images in Research Papers
A study by independent U.K. biologist Sholto David found that artificial intelligence can identify image manipulation in research papers faster and more accurately...
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