The UGC Overload: Scaling Content Moderation for Massive Datasets
AI and ML have a role to play in moderating user-generated content in real time to keep sites safe, civilized, and legally compliant.
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Barto, Sutton Announced as ACM 2024 A.M. Turing Award Recipients
ACM has named Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning in the 1980s, Barto and Sutton introduced the main ideas, constructed the mathematical foundations, and developed important algorithms for reinforcement […]
Researchers are tuning in on ways to turn down the volume with fabrics and materials that buffer, baffle, and block sound waves.
Buckle up, because what’s coming next is unlikely to look like what came before.
Prevalence and Prevention of Large Language Model Use in Crowd Work
LLMs may be particularly harmful in crowd work when the goal is to capture the diversity of human preferences, behaviors, or opinions.
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.
The Sustainability Gap for Computing: Quo Vadis?
A reformulated IPAT model provides insight for computer system engineers to consider computing's environmental impact.
Why Can’t We Predict Earthquakes?
Does the U.S. Geological Survey need to change its adamant position that it is impossible to accurately predict when an earthquake will occur?
The Evolution of Computer Science at the University Level
Interdisciplinary approaches that blend computer science with other fields of study have been increasing at universities and in popularity with students.
How Software Bugs led to ‘One of the Greatest Miscarriages of Justice’ in British History
Bad coding and bad testing characterize the software that led to wrongful convictions, financial ruin, and four suicides.
Initiatives created for the 2023 UbiComp/ISWC conference illustrate what can and should be done to support the needs of a diverse, increasingly global computing community.
The LiteLoad project is working to quantify the impact of poor connectivity in rural areas near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Tennessee, as a testing ground.
Is It Math or CS? Or Is It Both?
Igor Markov's “Reevaluating Google’s Reinforcement Learning for IC Macro Placement” in the November 2024 Communications looks at two non-peer-reviewed papers and makes baseless allegations of scientific integrity issues, all already found to be without merit.
Considering Trauma in Accessible Design for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Research into making smart-device-based computing apps accessible to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities has revealed several design suggestions.
I Was Wrong about the Ethics Crisis
Anxiety about the ills brought on by computing has risen dramatically.
Thinking of Algorithms as Institutions
Algorithms are not just lines of code; they are architectures that organize complex systems of interactions involving machines and humans.
The Fine Line between Persuasion and Coercion
How the Supreme Court's decision in Murthy v. Missouri leaves platforms free to set their own content-moderation policies on controversial issues.
Identifying Political Bias in AI
Findings suggest that no dataset is completely objective, even those carefully curated to be used as objectivity benchmarks.
Stealth aircraft can foil radar but can't dodge detection by Starlink satellite signals, a game-changer for aerial protection.
From X to Bluesky: To Echo Chamber or Not to Echo Chamber?
Our desire to avoid cognitive dissonance makes us inherently susceptible to echo chambers, a phenomenon intensified by algorithms that curate what we see, creating an environment in which beliefs are seldom challenged.
UT Austin researchers used AI to correctly predict 70% of earthquakes over seven months in an area of China a week before they happened.
There are technological reasons why BlueSky is experiencing sharp growth in users and activity.
The EU AI Act and the Wager on Trustworthy AI
The EU AI Act serves as a reminder for developers to always prioritize the well being of individuals and society as a whole.
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