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NY State Will Give Out Hundreds of Robots as Companions for the Elderly
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NY State Will Give Out Hundreds of Robots as Companions for the Elderly

The State of New York will distribute robot companions to the homes of more than 800 older adults to serve as proactive digital assistants — engaging in small talk...

Shortage of AI Experts Worsens the Skills Crisis
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Shortage of AI Experts Worsens the Skills Crisis

Slow progress in some countries' adoption of artificial intelligence means businesses can't harness the technology to solve the shortage of labor and skills they...

CS Student Uses TikTok Dance Videos and AI to Generate 3D Avatars
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CS Student Uses TikTok Dance Videos and AI to Generate 3D Avatars

University of Minnesota computer science Ph.D. student Yasamin Jafarian has been using TikTok dance videos as food for a computer algorithm to construct lifelike...

AI Traffic Light System Optimizes Flow in Complex Environments
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AI Traffic Light System Optimizes Flow in Complex Environments

Researchers at Aston University developed a deep reinforcement learning agent that achieves adaptive signal control of traffic lights in complex, imprecise, and...

AI Will Help Older Adults' Participation in Research
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AI Will Help Older Adults' Participation in Research

Researchers from Florida State University are studying artificial intelligence-based approaches to recruiting and retaining older adults to participate in research...

To Win the Next War, the Pentagon Needs Nerds
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To Win the Next War, the Pentagon Needs Nerds

Data scientists, coders, and other techies could prove decisive in future conflicts — if Uncle Sam can recruit them.

Scientific Manuscripts Get AI-Based Assessment
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Scientific Manuscripts Get AI-Based Assessment

The American Chemical Society has added Writefull's Manuscript Categorization API, an AI-based language services tool, to its publications workflow.

Here's One Way to Deal With the AI Talent Shortage
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Here's One Way to Deal With the AI Talent Shortage

AI-powered drug discovery company Absci opened a research center in New York City last week to help attract talent.

How a Shopping Mall Trip Inspired Me to Work in Neuro-Symbolic AI
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How a Shopping Mall Trip Inspired Me to Work in Neuro-Symbolic AI

I'll never forget the time — at just six years of age — when my father showed me a toy robot holding a tray and told me that very soon there will be actual robot...

Tool Predicts If Your Job Is at Risk From Automation
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Tool Predicts If Your Job Is at Risk From Automation

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne and the University of Lausanne have developed an algorithm which assesses the risk of a job being...

Has the Data Science Field Become Less Competitive?
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Has the Data Science Field Become Less Competitive?

A few mild yet significant signs indicate that data science as a job might be losing its sheen.

Chess Broadcast Includes Players' Heart Rate Determined by AI
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Chess Broadcast Includes Players' Heart Rate Determined by AI

World Chess will show the heart rate of players in its official broadcasts of the final rounds of the FIDE Grand Prix Series, measured using an AI technology similar...

Automatic Information System Extracts Scientific Articles on COVID-19
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Automatic Information System Extracts Scientific Articles on COVID-19

A team of researchers created the VIGICOVID system that uses natural language questions to get answers in the avalanche of research papers on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV...

AI Hiring Tools Are Hindering Women's Careers
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AI Hiring Tools Are Hindering Women's Careers

Researchers found that job seekers who set their gender profile as female on hiring platforms generate fewer ads for high-paying jobs, suggesting bias in such systems'...

UNLV President Turns Himself Into an AI
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UNLV President Turns Himself Into an AI

Keith Whitfield, president of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, is available to chat with all 31,000 students at any hour of the day or night — as long as...

Researchers Use AI to Fight Coronavirus
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Researchers Use AI to Fight Coronavirus

Michigan State University researcher Guowei Wei and his team used an artificial intelligence model to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying SARS-CoV-2...

Researchers Train Neural Network to Recognize Chemical Formulas From Research Papers
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Researchers Train Neural Network to Recognize Chemical Formulas From Research Papers

Scientists at startup Syntelly, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the Sirius University of Science and Technology have trained neural networks to convert images...

Scientists to Build AI-Powered Robot for E-Waste Recycling
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Scientists to Build AI-Powered Robot for E-Waste Recycling

The potential impact of AI robots on e-waste recycling might soon become clear thanks to a research project that seeks to develop AI-powered tools that allow a...

Developers Who Use Emojis More Likely to Stick With GitHub
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Developers Who Use Emojis More Likely to Stick With GitHub

Researchers used emojis to take the emotional temperature of workers and predict the likelihood of developers dropping the GitHub platform. 

Researchers Build AI That Builds AI
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Researchers Build AI That Builds AI

Researchers can fine-tune artificial neural networks using hypernetworks, saving some of the time and expense of training such networks.
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