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Harvard-Educated Professor Is Propelling China's AI Ambitions
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Harvard-Educated Professor Is Propelling China's AI Ambitions

Andrew Yao has influenced some of the biggest Chinese startups, informed government policy, and molded a generation of academics.

Could Machine Learning Fuel a Reproducibility Crisis in Science?
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Could Machine Learning Fuel a Reproducibility Crisis in Science?

Researchers Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan at Princeton University have sounded an alarm about what they call a "brewing reproducibility crisis" in machine-learning...

Scientists Are Trying to Give Robots Social Skills
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Scientists Are Trying to Give Robots Social Skills

A team of MIT researchers has developed a framework for robotics that incorporates social interactions, enabling the machines to understand how they help — or hinder...

Collaborators Will Use AI to Model Uncertainty
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Collaborators Will Use AI to Model Uncertainty

The University of Adelaide and MTX Group have entered into a research collaboration that will use ML and AI to model uncertainty with a view to avoiding failure...

Researchers' Computer Model Predicts Whether a Pesticide Will Harm Bees
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Researchers' Computer Model Predicts Whether a Pesticide Will Harm Bees

Researchers at Oregon State University have trained a support vector machine to predict the toxicity of proposed pesticides to honey bees based on the compound's...

Not My Job: AI Researchers Push Back on Ethical Concerns
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Not My Job: AI Researchers Push Back on Ethical Concerns

Feathers were ruffled with a policy shift at this year's CVPR conference which "strongly encouraged" researchers to include a discussion about potential negative...

Taxonomy Makes Machine-Learning Model Features More Understandable
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Taxonomy Makes Machine-Learning Model Features More Understandable

MIT researchers have developed a taxonomy to improve the interpretability of features of machine learning models so that data scientists will be more comfortable...

Researcher Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper About Itself
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Researcher Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper About Itself

Swedish researcher Almira Osmanovic Thunström asked OpenAI's GPT-3 text generating algorithm to write an academic paper about itself. The paper is currently being...

AI-Created Craft Beer Available in New Orleans
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AI-Created Craft Beer Available in New Orleans

New Orleans locals can now order the AI Blonde Ale craft beer created by an artificial intelligence platform.

Researchers Build An Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm
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Researchers Build An Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithm

A group of Cornell physicists and computer scientists developed an unsupervised machine learning method that can automatically extract charge density wave order...

Grad Students Develop Robot That Paints Like a Human
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Grad Students Develop Robot That Paints Like a Human

Graduate students at Georgia Institute of Technology have built a graffiti-painting robot system that uses motion capture technology to record human motions then...

Large Language Models Will Change Science
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Large Language Models Will Change Science

Advances in natural language processing and large language models are making it possible for machines to understand natural language, including the prose in scientific...

AI-Generated Imagery Could Pose a Risk to Research Integrity
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AI-Generated Imagery Could Pose a Risk to Research Integrity

A team of researchers at Xiamen University has expressed alarm at the ease with which bad actors can now generate fake AI imagery for use in research projects. ...

Research Suggests Diversity as Key to Human-AI Collaboration
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Research Suggests Diversity as Key to Human-AI Collaboration

New research points to diversity as being a key parameter for making AI systems better collaborators with humans.

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.
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