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Machine Learning System Tackles Speech and Object Recognition, All at Once
A new system can learn to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image.
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What China Can Teach the .S. About Artificial Intelligence
Visionary research is no longer the most important element of progress.
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2018 AI Predictions: 8 Insights to Shape Business Strategy
Artificial intelligence (AI) is remarkably complex and advancing quickly. It's impossible for anyone to give a precise vision of how the next several years will...
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Creating 3D-Printed 'Motion Sculptures' From 2D Videos
A new algorithm can take two-dimensional videos and turn them into three-dimensionally-printed "motion sculptures" that show how a human body moves through space...
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Mathematicians Calculate the Safest Way Home
Researchers in the U.K. have developed a mobile app that guides pedestrians along the safest, rather than the quickest, route to their destination.
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Pepper-Picking Robot Demonstrates Its Skills in Greenhouse Labor Automation
A team of European Union-funded researchers have developed a sweet pepper-harvesting robot that can help farmers reduce their costs.
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AI Tries Bad Improv Comedy to Trick People Into Thinking It Is Human
Improbotics is an artificial intelligence-based comedy theater that includes a human, a puppet, and a cyborg.
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Putting Answers to the Test
A new algorithm creates plausible answers designed to distract students from the correct answer in multiple choice exams.
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U.S. Tech Giants Eye AI Key to Unlock China Push
U.S. technology giants, facing tighter content rules in China and the threat of a trade war, are targeting an easier way into the world's second largest economy—artificial...
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Report: Machines to Handle Over Half Workplace Tasks by 2025
More than half of all workplace tasks will be completed by machines by 2025, according to a World Economic Forum report.
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Understanding Deep-Sea Images With AI
Researchers have developed a new standardized workflow for sustainable marine image analysis.
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Detecting Illness by Watching You Type
Show us how you type, and artificial intelligence may be able to identify your brain disorder.
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How to Stop Data Centers from Gobbling p the World's Electricity
Upload your latest holiday photos to Facebook, and there's a chance they'll end up stored in Prineville, Oregon, a small town where the firm has built three giant...
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Talking Gloves, Tactile Windows: New Tech Helps the Disabled
Hadeel Ayoub slips a black glove onto her hand before beginning the swish of sign language that is meaningless to the untrained observer. Then she pushes a button...
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'Everybody Dance Now': C Berkeley Researchers Develop Technology to Alter Dance Videos
New technology can alter dance videos to make amateur dance moves seem more advanced.
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Physicists Develop New Techniques to Enhance Data Analysis for Large Hadron Collider
New machine learning techniques can significantly improve data analysis for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator.
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Deep Learning: Is It Approaching a Wall?
As with all major technologies in their early phases, deep learning must overcome a number of serious challenges.
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AI Helps Track Down Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts
Researchers used machine learning to discover 72 fast radio bursts from a mysterious source about 3 billion light years from Earth.
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Deepfakes Are a Threat to National Security, Say Lawmakers
Deepfakes are a deep concern for Congress.
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