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AI Recreates Activity Patterns that Brain Cells ­se in Navigation
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AI Recreates Activity Patterns that Brain Cells ­se in Navigation


An AI for Deciphering What Animals Do All Day
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An AI for Deciphering What Animals Do All Day

Columbia University researchers have demonstrated how an algorithm for filtering spam can parse hours of video footage to reveal the behaviors of Hydra.

Man vs. Machine?
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Man vs. Machine?

Deep learning computers in Case Western Reserve University's diagnostic imaging laboratory routinely outperform humans in diagnosing heart failure and detecting...

White House Will Host AI Summit
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White House Will Host AI Summit

The White House plans to convene  executives from Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel, and 34 other major U.S. companies as it seeks to supercharge the deployment of...

Driverless Car Startup Drive.ai Launching Ride-hailing Service in Texas
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Driverless Car Startup Drive.ai Launching Ride-hailing Service in Texas

From day one, Drive.ai has positioned itself as the driverless car company that thinks most about human-technology interactions.

Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local ­niversities
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Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local ­niversities

At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, vowed that his company would "keep building" despite a swirl of questions...

Could Robots Be Counselors? Early Research Shows Positive ­ser Experience
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Could Robots Be Counselors? Early Research Shows Positive ­ser Experience

Researchers have demonstrated that a humanoid social robot can deliver a positive motivational interview.

Gait Assessed With Body-Worn Sensors May Help Detect Alzheimer's
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Gait Assessed With Body-Worn Sensors May Help Detect Alzheimer's

A recent pilot study at the University of Newcastle recently demonstrated that low-cost wearable devices could improve clinical trial efficiency.

Computer Scientists Find the Longest Straight Line You Could Sail Without Hitting Land
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Computer Scientists Find the Longest Straight Line You Could Sail Without Hitting Land

A new algorithm can calculate the longest straight-line path around the world on land or sea.

Mining for Gold With a Computer
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Mining for Gold With a Computer

Engineers from Texas A&M University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University used image-analysis software to gain new insights into nanoporous gold...

JPMorgan Taps Carnegie Mellon Professor for New AI Role
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JPMorgan Taps Carnegie Mellon Professor for New AI Role

Manuela Veloso will build on the U.S. bank's existing work applying machine learning technology.

AI To Help Soldiers Learn Faster in Combat
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AI To Help Soldiers Learn Faster in Combat

A low-cost, lightweight hardware system can help soldiers learn more than 13 times faster than conventional methods.

Facebook Helped Create an AI Scavenger Hunt that Could Lead to the First ­seful Home Robots
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Facebook Helped Create an AI Scavenger Hunt that Could Lead to the First ­seful Home Robots

Artificial-intelligence programs could develop some much-needed common sense by competing in scavenger hunts inside virtual homes filled with simulated coffee tables...

Rice ­. Turns Deep-Learning AI Loose on Software Development
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Rice ­. Turns Deep-Learning AI Loose on Software Development

Rice University researchers have invented a deep learning software coding application to help programmers navigate growing numbers of application programming interfaces...

Scholar ­ses Algorithm to Make Christmas Tree Farming More Efficient
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Scholar ­ses Algorithm to Make Christmas Tree Farming More Efficient

A Penn State University researcher has developed an algorithm to analyze and store images of Christmas tree farms taken by unmanned aircraft.

Could Artificial Intelligence Predict the Next Avengers: Infinity War?
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Could Artificial Intelligence Predict the Next Avengers: Infinity War?

Some movies are obvious hits. Like, for example, Avengers: Infinity War, which made a record-breaking $258 million at the domestic box office last weekend, filling...

AI Cracking Open the Vatican's Secret Archives
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AI Cracking Open the Vatican's Secret Archives

The In Codice Ratio project uses artificial intelligence and optical character recognition software to mine the Vatican Secret Archives and make its documents available...

Face Recognition for Galaxies: Artificial Intelligence Brings New Tools to Astronomy
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Face Recognition for Galaxies: Artificial Intelligence Brings New Tools to Astronomy

University of California, Santa Cruz researchers used computer simulations of galaxy formation to train a deep learning algorithm to recognize three phases of galaxy...

Speeding ­p Material Discovery
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Speeding ­p Material Discovery

A new algorithm has been developed to help discover and optimize new thermoelectric materials by tackling quantum mechanical equations without experimental input...

European Commission unveils €1.5 Billion AI Funding
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European Commission unveils €1.5 Billion AI Funding

The European Commission will be investing an extra €1.5 billion in artificial intelligence through 2020 under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. ...
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