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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

And unlike other technology waves, AI has moved faster and diffused more widely across industries and knowledge workflows. As ...

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 ...