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2021's Top Stories About AI

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Many of this year's top articles grappled with the limits of deep learning (today's dominant strand of AI) and spotlighted researchers seeking new paths. Here are the 10 most popular AI articles that Spectrum published in 2021, ranked by the amount of time people spent reading them. Their article isn't a total downer, though.

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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

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This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning.”. Regardless of what you might think about AI, the reality is that just about every successful deployment has either one of two expedients: It has a person somewhere in the loop, or the cost of failure, should the system blunder, is very low.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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Several research articles he came across said it was impossible to create such a machine because it would be unable to print motors and other electronic parts. I'm a very competitive person," he says, "so I was motivated to try and disprove these articles and actually build this device.". The incoming freshman at MIT won $600.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. The service allows members to avoid the fixed costs of car ownership as well as parking charges, fuel costs, or recurring annual fees.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Cortada is also a contributor to IEEE Spectrum , most recently of an article this month entitled " How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market ," and in that sense I'm delighted to call him a colleague. Once the PC business in IBM got folded into the main corporate structure, its costs of operating went up.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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His “As We May Think” article, for the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic magazine, envisioned a desktop computer and a “web” of “associative trails” that no less than the founders of Google cite as the inspiration for today’s information science and the Internet.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

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Android running the dashboard means Google Assistant, Google Maps, Google Play Store, and more, are instantly available and work the way you already use them. Hey, Google” is deeply ingrained in a lot of users by now, and Android finally makes voice commands practical in a car from a major maker. Watch this space.