Modern recommender systems use sophisticated engineering to suggest the thing you will want to buy, read, watch, or hear next online.

Open source AI momentum is more a matter of 'when' than 'if'.

Open source was not so much the goal itself as it was a means to an end: freedom.

A discussion of the evolution of the database industry over the past half century, and why the relational database concepts introduced by E.F. Codd have proven to be so resilient over several decades.

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Organizational challenges can be more difficult than technical ones.

Size matters in machine learning, but will this continue to be true?

Modern large language models appear to be able to fool the Turing Test. Will we know if they are becoming as intelligent as people?

New ways are being developed to shield data from being used to train artificial intelligence without owners' permission.

It is becoming easier---and more common---to recreate deceased individuals with artificial intelligence.

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What ethical framework should govern the interaction of ML researchers and crowdworkers?

How the surprising water footprint of semiconductor manufacturing, datacenters, and AI solutions is sparking sustainable development.

Considering how large language models might act differently if trained in different languages.

Proposing a new approach to programming language development.

Will generative artificial intelligence accelerate the growth of made-for-advertising sites?