ment of which Ford and Hayes are so fond) is silly. QED. So you can see why I feel so insulted. Here I sit, captain of enough silly proofs to take us, year by year, well into the next century, and I only win once, and only win now? Of course, our attitude may change if Jones’ says, “No, you don’t understand! Proponents of g are out there; and I have set myself the task of showing that they are ...

Bayesian); and nonsymbolic image-toimage transformations. Most successful practical vision systems are wellengineered combinations of specialpurpose sensors, hardware, and algorithms that are tailored to solve specific visual problems (and are generally more successful in proportion to the narrowness of the task). Some texts (for example, Batchelor, Hill, and Hodgson [1985]) don’t even mention ...

Regulation is a means societies use to create the stability, public goods, and infrastructure they need thrive securely. This policy brief intended both document address claims of new AI cold war: binary competition between United States China that too important for other powers either ignore or truly participate in directly, beyond taking sides. We argue while some this narrative are based at ...

The Communications website, https://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of , we'll publish selected posts or excerpts. twitter Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/blogCACM https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm Carlos Baquero whether using artificial intelligence provides an unfair advantage to writers.

AI practitioners typically strive to develop the most accurate systems, making an implicit assumption that system will function autonomously. However, in practice, systems often are used provide advice people domains ranging from criminal justice and finance healthcare. In such AI-advised decision making, humans machines form a team, where human is responsible for final decisions. But best team...

The use of quantitative methods for aquatic plants has not become as standardized as other components in the aquatic ecosystem, such as biotic (e.g., fish) or physical components (e.g., water chemistry) (APHA 1995, Lind 1979, Wetzel and Likens 1991). Even when considering aquatic biomass sampling, which is a widely accepted means of quantifying aquatic plant communities, there is considerable d...