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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Social Robot Developed at NSW Set to Revolutionize Workplace Experience
Researchers have developed a social robot to promote creativity and collaboration in the workplace.
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Center for Machine Intelligence Launched to Help Build a Smarter and Safer Society
The University of Southampton in the U.K. recently launched the Center for Machine Intelligence.
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Where's the Bear?
Researchers are using machine learning to identify and classify wildlife caught on camera.
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App Translates Lectures Into Text
Researchers at the University at Buffalo have developed Lecture Buddy, a smartphone application that translates lectures into text using a continuous speech recognition...
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Drones That Smash Into Obstacles Can Be a Good and seful Thing
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are working on small aerial drones that purposefully collide with obstacles and then move on to perform various functions...
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Army Researchers Develop New Algorithms to Train Robots
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have developed new methods for robots or computer programs to learn how to...
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Can Computers Learn Like Humans?
The world of artificial intelligence has exploded in recent years. Computers armed with AI do everything from drive cars to pick movies you'll probably like.
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AI Just Learned How to Boost the Brain's Memory
When it comes to black boxes, there is none more black than the human brain. Our gray matter is so complex, scientists lament, that it can't quite understand itself...
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China Plans to se AI to Boost the Thinking Skills of Nuclear Submarine Commanders
China is planning to enhance its nuclear submarines' computer systems with artificial intelligence to augment the potential thinking skills of commanding officers...
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.k. Humandrive Initiative to Test Self-Driving Cars on Country Roads
The HumanDrive initiative in the U.K. seeks to refine driverless automobile navigation systems for conditions that include country roads and high-speed roundabouts...
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Neural Networks Allow S to 'Read Faces' in a New Way
Stanford University professor Michal Kosinski is using deep neural networks to illustrate the use of facial-recognition technology for invasive monitoring
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If Workers Slack Off, the Wristband Will Know. (and Amazon Has a Patent For It.)
What if your employer made you wear a wristband that tracked your every move, and that even nudged you via vibrations when it judged that you were doing something...
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MIT Enlisting Hundreds of Scientists in Effort to Make Computers Think More Like People
MIT has launched the MIT Intelligence Quest, an agenda to coordinate the efforts of MIT's many experts to train computers to think in a more human-like manner. ...
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Vanderbilt Wins Top Prize in First Round of DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge
Vanderbilt University's MarmotE team has won the first round of the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge, which focuses on using machine intelligence to allocate...
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China Wants to Make the Chips that Will Add AI to Any Gadget
In an office at Tsinghua University in Beijing, a computer chip is crunching data from a nearby camera, looking for faces stored in a database.
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Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel
In early 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Applying Machine Learning to the niverse's Mysteries
Berkeley Lab scientists and their collaborators used neural networks to analyze simulations of heavy ion collisions.
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Every Study We Could Find on What Automation Will Do to Jobs, in One Chart
You've seen the headlines: "Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs—and We're Not Ready for It." "You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think." "Robots May...
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Deep Learning Pioneered For Real-Time Gravitational Wave Discovery
Researchers have developed a method for using graphics processing unit-accelerated deep learning for detecting and characterizing gravitational waves.
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