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Seeding a Level Playing Field for 'Dr. AI'
Algorithms must be trained on current health data to be useful.
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AI Chips May Give You a Real Reason to Upgrade Your Smartphone
You've likely seen artificial intelligence technology spread into apps, devices and services, doing things like recognizing your friends' faces in photos and endowing...
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Scientists Teach Computers How to Analyze Brain Cells
Researchers at the San Francisco-based Gladstone Institutes are studying whether computers can be trained to identify structures in unstained cells.
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How to Catch a Fish Genome With Big Data
Researchers have assembled an annotated genome of the California Yellowtail for the first time.
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Computer-Simulated Soybeans
Washington University in St. Louis researchers have developed a simulation to guide farmers on soybean-planting strategies.
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Artificial Antimicrobial Peptides Could Help Overcome Drug-Resistant Bacteria
A new streamlined approach to developing antimicrobial peptide drugs uses a computer algorithm that mimics natural evolution.
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Trade War or Not, China Is Closing the Gap on .S. in Technology IP Race
China's rising investment in research and expansion of its higher education system mean that it is fast closing the gap with the United States in intellectual property...
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Need a New Look? Facebook's AI Fashion Designer Has Some Ideas
Researchers used generative adversarial networks to produce fashion items including handbags, jumpers, and T-shirts.
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Twenty-Four E Countries Sign Artificial Intelligence Pact in Bid to Compete With .S. & China
Twenty-four countries in the European Union recently signed a declaration to collaborate on a "European approach" to artificial intelligence so they can compete...
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A 200-Year-Old Idea Offers a New Way to Trace Stolen Bitcoins
Researchers are using an 1816 legal precedent to track down stolen bitcoins.
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Beijing Launches Pioneering Brain-Science Centre
Beijing has announced plans to build a brain-science centre that will rival in size some of the world's largest neuroscience organizations. It will also serve as...
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Military Documents Reveal How the S Army Plans to Deploy AI in Future Wars
Tomorrow's wars will be fought with a lethal combination of soldiers, drones, and AI-powered systems. The Internet of Battle Things, as it's being called, is a vast...
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Computer Searches Telescope Data for Evidence of Distant Planets
Researchers have trained a machine learning system to search for debris disks around stars using telescopic data.
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Emmanuel Macron Talks About France's AI Strategy
The French government will spend €1.5 billion ($1.85 billion) over five years to support research in artificial intelligence, encourage startups, and collect data...
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Need to Make a Molecule? Ask This AI for Instructions
Chemists have a new lab assistant: artificial intelligence. Researchers have developed a "deep learning" computer program that produces blueprints for the sequences...
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To Speed p AI, Mix Memory and Processing
If John von Neumann were designing a computer today, there's no way he would build a thick wall between processing and memory. At least, that's what computer engineer Naresh...
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Watch a Computer Learn to Play 'Doom' Inside a Dream
Researchers taught a machine to "hallucinate" its idea of the video game "Doom," then got a virtual agent to play its own dream version of the game so it could...
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Deep Learning Model as Accurate as Radiologists Determining Age of Child Bones
Researchers have demonstrated that a deep learning convolutional network model can estimate bone age as well as human radiologists.
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