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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I started my career at Hughes Aircraft in 1972 while working on my Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). After designing airborne computers for four years, I graduated and then ...

In Heinlein’s tale, Mike was a companion, co-conspirator, and catalyst, a friend who could make us laugh even as he plotted ...

Hall's work has shaped the development of digital libraries and the evolution of the Internet.

If we consider an AI in the form of an LLM as a mathematical object, it represents a weakly structured set of coefficients.

For decades, empirical research has shown that programming is a demanding cognitive activity: Developers rely on working ...

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

Input on the publicly available Beaver benchmark is welcome in an effort to make LLM/agentic AI better for real-world business applications. ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping ...

The answer is trapped ions, the technology that underpins College Park, MD-based IonQ’s quantum computers. Trapped ions are ...

Large language models can write essays, solve math problems, and generate computer code, but it’s not fully understood how ...