It has long been fashionable to say the public sector should be more like the private sector, which typically means to be ...

Many members have shared thoughtful perspectives regarding a recent Communications opinion piece discussing the possibility of opening the ACM Digital Library for large language model (LLM) training.

The question of whether it’s accurately reflecting the model is still a big question.” Wong said black box approaches have stifled the uptake of potentially beneficial AI in specialist sectors. At the ...

The need for stronger assumptions in black-box audits of AI models can lead to a gray-box setup, where each hypothesis is weighed as a double-edged sword. ACM encourages its members to take a direct ...

Yet in practice, many academic works use the term black-box audit, while assuming some prior knowledge of what is inside the ...

Hence, any text-to-SQL benchmark should address the difficulties of real-world data stores. Those that do not are of academic ...

From the Tin Man and Wall-E to GlaDOS and Samantha, machine companions have long inhabited sociotechnical imaginaries. With the mainstreaming of large language models (LLMs) they have moved from ...

In Heinlein’s tale, Mike was a companion, co-conspirator, and catalyst, a friend who could make us laugh even as he plotted ...

If we consider an AI in the form of an LLM as a mathematical object, it represents a weakly structured set of coefficients.

Many people experience relationships with AI companions as socially valuable while remaining fully aware the agent is nonhuman. ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future ...

The need for stronger assumptions in black-box audits of AI models can lead to a gray-box setup, where each hypothesis is weighed as a double-edged sword. ACM encourages its members to take a direct ...

For decades, empirical research has shown that programming is a demanding cognitive activity: Developers rely on working ...