Devices which help track, analyze, and improve fitness and sporting performance have been emerging for several decades, first with simple devices like step-counting Fitbits and more recently with apps ...

Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

The terrifying possibility: the hard part of academic success becomes being the kind of person who’s good at promoting ideas, ...

Although chatbots such as ChatGPT, which are powered by large language models (LLMs), have some sense of time, it is conceptualized in a completely different way. As we increasingly interact with them ...

A marriage of formal methods and LLMs seeks to harness the strengths of both.

When that break occurs, the mathematics behind the code moves instantly. Organizations, however, do not move so fast.

Making cryptography ready for post-quantum migration will require architectural planning, testing discipline, and cross-organizational coordination. ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in ...

The impact of agentic AI attacks cascades across an organization/enterprise’s dimensions through the intensification of challenges associated with confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Today’s standard operating procedure for LLMs involves offline training, rigorous alignment testing, and deployment with frozen weights to ensure stability. Nick Bostrom, a leading AI philosopher and ...

Model collapse began as a theoretical concern but now shows up as observable degradation in tools that millions of practitioners use daily.

The conversational prowess of AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude appears to stem from sophisticated algorithms ...

The degradation is subtle but cumulative. Tools that release frequent updates while training on datasets polluted with ...