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Physicists Teach AI to Identify Exotic States of Matter
Put a tray of water in the freezer. For a while, it's liquid. And then—boom—the molecules stack into little hexagons, and you've got ice.
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AI Learns to Solve Quantum State of Many Particles at Once
The same type of artificial intelligence that mastered the ancient game of Go could help wrestle with the amazing complexity of quantum systems containing billions...
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The AI Threat Isn't Skynet. It's the End of the Middle Class
In February 1975, a group of geneticists gathered in a tiny town on the central coast of California to decide if their work would bring about the end of the world...
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Trick of Tweet: Data Tool Pinpoints Words Seen as Credible
Sixty-two percent of Americans get their news from social media, according to a 2016 poll by Pew Research Center.
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Mathematically Optimizing Traffic Lights in Road Intersections
A team of researchers is addressing the challenge of computing optimal traffic light settings for city road intersections by applying traffic flow conservation...
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Chinese Firms Racing to the Front of the AI Revolution
Chinese companies are outpacing U.S. firms in the development of artificial intelligence technologies, according to reports from the U.S. government and others....
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Poker-Playing AI Beats Top Human Players
Developers at Carnegie Mellon University create an artificial intelligence that learns, wins.
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Artificial Intelligence Helps Identify Effective Cancer Drug Combinations
Researchers at Cornell University have found artificial intelligence can help scientists predict what combinations of existing drugs could combat different types...
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China's Intelligent Weaponry Gets Smarter
Robert O. Work, the veteran defense official retained as deputy secretary by President Trump, calls them his "A.I. dudes."
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Iu, Nswc Crane Partnering to Bolster National Defense Through 'smart Tech' Agreement
Indiana University and the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, have entered into a collaborative research agreement to improve military sensor technology...
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Astronomers Explore Uses For AI-Generated Images
Volcanoes, monasteries, birds, thistles: the varied images in Jeff Clune's research paper could be his holiday snaps.
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Computer Diagnoses Cataracts as Well as Eye Doctors Can
Scientists at Sun Yat-Sen University in China are using a new artificial neural network to recognize and diagnose congenital cataracts as accurately as eye doctors...
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Inside the 20-Year Quest to Build Computers That Play Poker
Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research raise questions about the threat that bots pose to the online gambling industry.
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Berkeley Launches Riselab, Enabling Computers to Make Intelligent Real-Time Decisions
The University of California, Berkeley recently launched the RISELab, which aims to improve how machines make intelligent decisions based on real-time input.
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Inside the 20-Year Quest to Build Computers That Play Poker
Four of the best professional poker players in the world spent most of January holed up at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, losing.
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Google's Go-Playing Machine Opens the Door to Robots that Learn
Two robotic arms face two closed doors. Both reach forward and miss the door handles entirely.
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Smart City Transport Systems
Researchers have developed a machine-learning program to accurately recreate and predict public transport use based on the distribution of land use and amenities...
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A Computer Program That Learns How to Save Fuel
Artificial intelligence may one day be able to help cars use energy more efficiently.
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Artificial Intelligence ncovers New Insight Into Biophysics of Cancer
Researchers have used a machine-learning artificial intelligence platform to predict three reagents that produced a previously unseen cancer-like phenotype in tadpoles...
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