Observing the tsunami of artificial intelligence (AI) hype that has swept over the world in the past few years, science fiction writer Ted Chiang staked out a contrarian position. “Artificial intelligence,” he insisted, was just a “poor choice of words … back in the ’50s” that had caused “a lot of confusion.” Under the rubric of intelligence,...

In November 2022, ChatGPT took the world by storm, demonstrating that a chatbot could be sufficiently refined to be practical and useful (unlike earlier attempts like Microsoft’s disastrous Tay chatbot back in 2016). Now, after just two short years, generative AI technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, progressing quickly from simple text...

As AI systems become more advanced and integrated into our lives, there has been a corresponding urgency to ensure they align with social values and norms, and that their benefits significantly outweigh any potential harms. In response to this imperative, legal and regulatory bodies globally are engaged in a concerted effort to develop comprehensive...

Abstract Improving the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) is important to both the compiler and neural architecture search (NAS) communities. Compilers apply program transformations in order to exploit hardware parallelism and memory hierarchy. However, legality concerns mean they fail to exploit the natural robustness of neural networks....

The exponential growth in the rate of scientific publication4 and increasing interdisciplinary nature of scientific progress27 makes it increasingly hard for scholars to keep up with the latest developments. Academic search engines, such as Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar, help scholars discover research papers. Techniques such as automated...

“How should we evaluate the legacy of Thomas Jefferson?,” asks a professor of American history. The reply: “The general consensus on Thomas Jefferson is that he was a complex and contradictory figure who championed the ideals of democracy, tolerance, and independence, but also owned hundreds of slaves and fathered several children with one...