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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Machine Learning Storms Into Climate Research
Climate change researchers are aggressively pushing for the incorporation of machine learning within their field.
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Explained: Neural Networks
Deep learning is a new name for the neural-networking approach to artificial intelligence.
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The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
Some experts warn deep-learning artificial intelligence technologies cannot be adopted without reservations if their creators cannot understand how they reason....
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Don't Worry, Driverless Cars Are Learning From Grand Theft Auto
In the race to the autonomous revolution, developers have realized there aren't enough hours in a day to clock the real-world miles needed to teach cars how to...
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New Tools Needed to Track Technology's Impact on Jobs, Panel Says
New tools must be developed to track and measure the impact of artificial intelligence and automation on the U.S. job market, according to a report from an expert...
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Google Tests New Approach to Training Machine Learning Models
Google is testing a new collaborative machine-learning training method in which training data is diffused across millions of individual mobile devices instead of...
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AI Programs Exhibit Racial and Gender Biases, Research Reveals
Researchers at the University of Bath and Princeton University have demonstrated an artificial intelligence tool that enables computers to interpret everyday language...
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What Americans Are Most Worried About When It Comes to Robots
Fifty-seven percent of surveyed U.S. adults already notice the presence of artificial intelligence in their daily lives, but they are divided concerning its threat...
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The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.
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Machines Learning Evolves, and Hackers Stand to Gain
Experts say the growing pervasiveness and maturity of machine learning makes it an increasingly attractive candidate for cybersecurity applications.
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Canada Tries to Turn Its A.i. Ideas Into Dollars
Long before Google started working on cars that drive themselves and Amazon was creating home appliances that talk, a handful of researchers in Canada—backed by...
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Carnegie Mellon Artificial Intelligence Takes on Chinese Poker Players
Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence to compete against six professional Chinese poker players in a 36,000-hand exhibition match in China.
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Algorithm and Rhyme
San Jose State University professor Margareta Ackerman has developed an artificial intelligence-based system designed to assist musicians in songwriting.
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AI Player Alphago to Play Chinese Go Champion
DeepMind's Go-playing artificial intelligence program AlphaGo in May will play against top Chinese Go player Ke Jie in a three-game match in China.
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Machine Learning Predicts the Look of STEM Cells
No two stem cells are identical, even if they are genetic clones.
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Stanford Researchers Create Deep Learning Algorithm That Could Boost Drug Development
A new type of deep learning, known as one-shot learning, could be used to help drug development because it only requires a small number of data points.
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Building an AI Chip Saved Google From Building a Dozen New Data Centers
Google operates what is surely the largest computer network on Earth, a system that comprises custom-built, warehouse-sized data centers spanning 15 locations in...
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Understanding the Limits of Deep Learning
The capabilities of deep-learning neural networks are impressive, but these are tempered by significant constraints.
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Synthetic Humans Help Computers Understand How Real People Act
Researchers are working to help computers understand human behavior by feeding them videos and images of computer-generated bodies in motion
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