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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Making Smartphones More Aware
The drive to make electronic devices more situationally, contextually aware of their environments.
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Sent to Prison By a Software Program's Secret Algorithms
When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. visited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute last month, he was asked a startling question, one with overtones of science fiction...
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Watch Hackers Sabotage an Industrial Robot Arm
When the cybersecurity industry warns of digital threats to the "internet of things," the targets that come to mind are ill-conceived, insecure consumer products...
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The AI Revolution Is Making Game Characters Move More Realistically
When we talk about artificial intelligence in games, we usually picture smarter or more realistic enemies that don't come off as mindless automatons.
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Hubert L. Dreyfus, Philosopher of the Limits of Computers, Dies at 87
A philosopher who believed humans will always be smarter.
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Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)
What if part of your job became teaching a computer everything you know about doing someone's job—perhaps your own?
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Mapping the Edge of Reality
Researchers have developed a genetic algorithm to confirm the rejection of classical ideas of causality.
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New Shark Spotter Algorithm Lets Surfers Take to the Break With Confidence
Shark Spotter is an algorithm that uses video footage streamed from drones to detect sharks and alert swimmers.
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Computer Geeks Develop Algorithm to Detect Defects in Fruits and Grade Them Automatically
A new image-processing technique automatically checks the quality of fruits based on their color and texture.
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The Next Era of Drones Will Be Defined By 'swarms'
What do you picture when you think of a drone?
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Artificial Intelligence Expert Shares His Vision of the Future of Education
University of Idaho professor Joseph Qualls says he envisions education being transformed by artificial intelligence.
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A Massive New Library of 3D Images Could Help Your Robot Butler Get Around Your House
Researchers created ScanNet, a new database of three-dimensional images with millions of annotated objects, to help train machines to better understand the physical...
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Scientists Can Blind a Self-Driving Car From Seeing Pedestrians
Researchers have demonstrated it is possible to prevent machine-vision systems from seeing specific categories of objects in a scene.
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Organ Donation: A New Frontier For Ai?
Researchers are developing a computerized machine-learning method for better predicting how well a typical organ transplant will proceed.
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Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?
In early January, I went to see Mark Zuckerberg at MPK20, a concrete-and-steel building on the campus of Facebook's headquarters, which sits across a desolate highway...
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Inside China's Plans For World Robot Domination
Scenes from China's quest to dominate the robotic future: At startup E-Deodar, a human-looking droid serves coffee to employees who are building $15,000 industrial...
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What Netflix Can Teach S About Treating Cancer
Johns Hopkins University professor Elana Fertig details her research to enhance precision medicine in cancer, using the techniques developed for finding patterns...
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Find Out If a Robot Will Take Your Job
At a community college in upstate New York, 12 cafeteria workers recently learned that they will lose their jobs—and be replaced by self-serve machines.
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Pattern Discovery Over Pattern Recognition: A New Way For Computers to See
Researchers are designing machine-learning systems to enable supercomputers to identify large-scale atmospheric structures in climate data.
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