How Many Ways Can You Teach a Robot?
ACM Prize recipient Pieter Abbeel is working to help robots learn, and learn to improve.
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Competing Agendas Roil Online Content Moderation Efforts
The EU and the U.S. diverge on how they handle online content moderation.
Face It, Self-Driving Cars Still Haven’t Earned Their Stripes
Edge cases remain a serious, unsolved problem, $100 billion later.
Machine Learning: The Road to Artificial Intelligence?
Machine learning, as it is practiced, has little, if anything to do with AI and the more encompassing endeavor that we call Cognitive Science.
Optical Vectors Beam Multi-Bits
The technique works by modulating the vector-quality factor, instead of the amplitude of a laser.
Federated Learning: How Private Is It Really?
Just when it looks like Federated Learning is able to keep local data private, out comes a study to deflate us.
Automated Tests Are the Safety Net
Automated testing in software development significantly diminishes routine work and saves time, allowing programmers to work more effectively.
Quantifying artificial intelligence's capacity for creativity requires an understanding of what creativity is.
Artificial intelligence can unlock speed and quality improvements in three-dimensional graphics.
Computer-Assisted Proofs Take on Fluid Flow
Researchers use computers to show that equations can "blow up."
Technical Perspective: Can We Uncover Private Backbone Infrastructures?
In "A Manifold View of Connectivity in the Private Backbone Networks of Hyperscalers," Salamatian et al. assemble techniques from the two broad strategies developed by the networking community and complement them with new ones using concepts from Riemannian geometry.
A Manifold View of Connectivity in the Private Backbone Networks of Hyperscalers
We present a new empirical approach for elucidating connectivity in privately owned and operated backbone networks.
For a More Transparent Governance of Open Source
Seeking the best governance models for FOSS projects.
SI and Binary Prefixes: Clearing the Confusion
Considering the emergence of non-standard acceptance of SI prefixes.
Why You Should Be Able to Make Your Own Individualized, Digital Nano-Currency
Increasing opportunities for access to traditional financial systems.
A discussion with Alfred Spector, Peter Norvig, Chris Wiggins, Jeannette Wing, Ben Fried, and Michael Tingley.
A Computational Inflection for Scientific Discovery
Enabling researchers to leverage systems to overcome the limits of human cognitive capacity.
"Write a 700-word obituary for Vint Cerf." I tried this "prompting" text on a publicly available chatbot. The output? There was a considerable degree of invented but false statements about my life and work.
L-Space and Large Language Models
Design fiction is an approach to understanding and speculating about alternate futures. This column is a piece of such speculative fiction, set in 2025.
A Nested Inventory for Software Security, Supply Chain Risk Management
The growing importance of the Software Bill of Materials
Focusing on the use of artificial photosynthesis through solar leaf technologies.
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