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Delivery Drones Can Learn to See, Dodge Obstacles In-Flight
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Delivery Drones Can Learn to See, Dodge Obstacles In-Flight

The University of Zurich in Switzerland and Intel  jointly developed a method to enable aerial drones to learn to avoid in-flight collisions.

Inside Facebook, Twitter and Google's AI Battle Over Your Social Lives
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Inside Facebook, Twitter and Google's AI Battle Over Your Social Lives

When you sign up for Facebook on your phone, the app isn't just giving you the latest updates and photos from your friends and family.

Microsoft Calls for Regulation of Facial Recognition, Saying It's Too Risky to Leave to Tech Industry Alone
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Microsoft Calls for Regulation of Facial Recognition, Saying It's Too Risky to Leave to Tech Industry Alone

Microsoft is calling for government regulation on facial-recognition software, one of its key technologies, saying such artificial intelligence is too important...

Big Data Analysis Identifies New Cancer Risk Genes
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Big Data Analysis Identifies New Cancer Risk Genes

Researchers in Spain have developed an analysis method for systematically identifying genes involved in hereditary cancer risk, using existing cancer genome datasets...

Test Tube Artificial Neural Network Recognizes 'Molecular Handwriting'
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Test Tube Artificial Neural Network Recognizes 'Molecular Handwriting'

California Institute of Technology researchers have developed an artificial neural network from DNA that can correctly identify handwritten numbers.

How Computers Parse the Ambiguity of Everyday Language
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How Computers Parse the Ambiguity of Everyday Language

Ohio State University researchers investigating the challenge of ambiguous language for computers used an online game to clarify work in the field of natural language...

The AI Revolution Has Spawned a New Chips Arms Race
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The AI Revolution Has Spawned a New Chips Arms Race

For years, the semiconductor world seemed to have settled into a quiet balance: Intel vanquished virtually all of the RISC processors in the server world, save ...

Robot Able to Mimic an Activity After Observing It Just One Time
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Robot Able to Mimic an Activity After Observing It Just One Time

A University of California, Berkeley team has engineered a robot that can mimic an activity after viewing it only once on a video screen.

How to Stop Artificial Intelligence Being Biased
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How to Stop Artificial Intelligence Being Biased

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany have developed a new method to avoid embedding bias into machine learning algorithms....

HHS Is ­sing Data to Fight Opioid Abuse, Fraud, and Just About Everything Else
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HHS Is ­sing Data to Fight Opioid Abuse, Fraud, and Just About Everything Else

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General is using refined data analytics to combat medical fraud, waste, and abuse.

Inside China's Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras
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Inside China's Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras

In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station.

SpaceX Is Flying an Artificially Intelligent Robot Named CIMON to the International Space Station
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SpaceX Is Flying an Artificially Intelligent Robot Named CIMON to the International Space Station

An artificially intelligent robot was launched to the International Space Station last week to assist with scientific experiments.

Personalized 'Deep Learning' Equips Robots for Autism Therapy
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Personalized 'Deep Learning' Equips Robots for Autism Therapy

A personalized deep learning network is designed to help robots gauge the effect of autism therapy on children, using data that is unique to each patient.

'You Cannot Be Serious': IBM Taps Emotions for Wimbledon Highlights
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'You Cannot Be Serious': IBM Taps Emotions for Wimbledon Highlights

IBM's Watson artificial intelligence platform is analyzing players' emotions at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.

Silicon Valley's Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge
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Silicon Valley's Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge

When you step off the train here and walk into the city square outside the railway station, you will not see the spires of King's College Chapel or the turrets...

Computational Method Puts Finer Point on Multispecies Genomic Comparisons
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Computational Method Puts Finer Point on Multispecies Genomic Comparisons

A new computational model enables more detailed comparative analysis of genome function across species.

Autonomous Trucks for Logistics Centers
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Autonomous Trucks for Logistics Centers

The Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems in Germany is collaborating with industry to develop autonomous truck technologies in logistics...

Judea Pearl  Codes Languages to Challenge Paradigms of Computer Science
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Judea Pearl Codes Languages to Challenge Paradigms of Computer Science

Judea Pearl, recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award for 2011, built his career by challenging conventions in the field of artificial intelligence.

Ford Video Shows in Painful Detail a 'Phantom Traffic Jam'
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Ford Video Shows in Painful Detail a 'Phantom Traffic Jam'

A recent study by Vanderbilt University and Ford Motor researchers showed that adaptive cruise control systems can stop "phantom traffic jams" by incrementally...

Give Me That AI Rock and Roll
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Give Me That AI Rock and Roll

Artificial Intelligence helps novices create new music.
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