December 2018 Issue
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Designing Emotionally Sentient Agents
Emotionally sentient systems will enable computers to perform complex tasks more effectively, making better decisions and offering...
Point: Should AI Technology Be Regulated?
Considering the difficult technical and sociological issues affecting the regulation of artificial intelligence research and...
Counterpoint: Regulators Should Allow the Greatest Space for AI Innovation
Permissionless innovation should be the governing policy for AI technologies.
Point/Counterpoint on AI Regulation
December 2018 CACM Point/Counterpoint: Oren Etzioni, author of "Should AI Technology Be Regulated? Yes, and Here's How," and Adam Thierer, co-author of "Regulators Should Allow the Greatest Space for AI Innovation," present opposing views of AI regulation.
Europe's Influence Over U.S. Tech Was More Formidable Than Ever in 2018
CNET
The influence of the biggest US tech companies is as …
NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
For the second time in history, a human-made object has …
The U.S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for Quantum Computing
IEEE Spectrum
A task force evaluated the feasibility of developing a functional …
Short Take: Big Data and IoT in Practice
Saurabh Bagchi
Looking at some use cases for the adoption of big data in industries that deal with physical things, and drawing some inferences...
There Are No Digital Humanities
Herbert Bruderer
Many think that the opposite of digital is analog or mechanical.
FictionStein
Robin K. Hill
Science fiction like Frankenstein nudges readers to confer humanity but nudges them away from moral fortitude.