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What Worries People about Future Science and Tech Innovations?
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What Worries People about Future Science and Tech Innovations?

Many Americans see the future crowding into the present and some of the innovations ahead unnerve them, especially as they reshape ideas about human dominion.

Intel Execs Address the AI Talent Shortage, AI Education, and the 'Cool' Factor 
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Intel Execs Address the AI Talent Shortage, AI Education, and the 'Cool' Factor 

Last week, I sat down with Intel's Gadi Singer, vice president and general manager of artificial intelligence architecture, and Chris Rice, head of AI talent acquisition...

AI Aimed at Making Life Easier Poses Dangerous Threat
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AI Aimed at Making Life Easier Poses Dangerous Threat

Wouldn't it be great if your smartphone could call your hairdresser and book an appointment, or haggle with your favorite restaurant for dinner reservations?

Researcher to Help Develop 'Human-Like' Control System
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Researcher to Help Develop 'Human-Like' Control System

Zhen Ni will use a $261,503 NSF grant to develop algorithms for an adaptive dynamic programming-based learning control framework to be integrated into space robot...

How AI Technology Can Tame the Scientific Literature
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How AI Technology Can Tame the Scientific Literature

AI-based tools can offer a penetrating view of scientific literature, computationally taming the vast flood of scholarly papers published at a rate of 1 million...

Robots Can Now Pick ­p Any Object After Inspecting It
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Robots Can Now Pick ­p Any Object After Inspecting It

A system developed at MIT CSAIL can recognize specific objects it has never seen before.

Harnessing Deep Learning to Better ­nderstand the ­niverse
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Harnessing Deep Learning to Better ­nderstand the ­niverse

A collaboration between NERSC, Intel, and Cray has yielded CosmoFlow, a highly scalable deep learning application built on top of the TensorFlow framework.

Decoding Data to Predict Landslides
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Decoding Data to Predict Landslides

A software tool developed by researchers at the University of Melbourne uses applied mathematics and big data analytics to predict the location of a landslide two...

Self-Driving Technology Threatens Nearly 300,000 Trucking Jobs, Report Says
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Self-Driving Technology Threatens Nearly 300,000 Trucking Jobs, Report Says

Autonomous driving technology could replace some 294,000 long-distance truck drivers over the next 25 years, a lighter impact than some have predicted but one that...

Britain Faces an AI Brain Drain as Tech Giants Raid Top ­niversities
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Britain Faces an AI Brain Drain as Tech Giants Raid Top ­niversities

Britain faces an artificial intelligence "brain drain" as Silicon Valley raids its top universities for talent.

Are We Ready for the Future of Warfare?
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Are We Ready for the Future of Warfare?

Warfare has always been about exerting political will.

AI-Human Partnerships Tackle 'Fake News'
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AI-Human Partnerships Tackle 'Fake News'

During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, inaccurate and misleading articles burned through social networks.

Artificial Intelligence Is Now a Pentagon Priority. Will Silicon Valley Help?
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Artificial Intelligence Is Now a Pentagon Priority. Will Silicon Valley Help?

In a May memo to President Trump, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis implored him to create a national strategy for artificial intelligence.

What Went Wrong With IBM's Watson
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What Went Wrong With IBM's Watson

What if artificial intelligence can't cure cancer after all?

How AI Can Spot Exam Cheats and Raise Standards
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How AI Can Spot Exam Cheats and Raise Standards

Technology is coming into the exam hall. A Coursera system takes images of students and verifies their identities. Plagiarism detectors scan essays to identify...

More Workers Might Not Mean More Work Gets Done, Study Shows
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More Workers Might Not Mean More Work Gets Done, Study Shows

For ants and robots operating in confined spaces like tunnels, having more workers does not necessarily mean getting more work done.

Replacing Your Boss With a Cruel Robot Could Make You Concentrate More
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Replacing Your Boss With a Cruel Robot Could Make You Concentrate More

A mean robot could motivate human employees to improve their cognitive performance, compared to supervision by a friendly robot or no robot supervision, researchers...

AI Is the Future–But Where Are the Women?
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AI Is the Future–But Where Are the Women?

The numbers of men and women who had contributed work at three top machine learning conferences in 2017 suggest the group supposedly charting society's future is...

To Get Ready for Robot Driving, Some Want to Reprogram Pedestrians
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To Get Ready for Robot Driving, Some Want to Reprogram Pedestrians

You're crossing the street wrong.

Robots Will Never Replace Teachers But Can Boost Children's Education
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Robots Will Never Replace Teachers But Can Boost Children's Education

Researchers say current technical limitations mean that robots' role will largely be confined to that of teaching assistants or tutors.
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