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Making Sense of Exabytes of Data at Sc16
“Think about how you got here,” said Katharine Frase, head of strategy and business development for IBM’s Watson Education unit, at the SC16 conference in Salt...
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Neural Network Learns to Identify Criminals By Their Faces
Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University applied a variety of machine-vision algorithms to study faces of criminals and noncriminals. Their neural network...
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AI Academic Warns on Brain Drain to Tech Groups
As artificial intelligence (AI) professionals increasingly seek positions within major technology companies, the exodus threatens to stall academic research in...
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Computers Learn to Recognize Molecules That Can Enter Cells
Researchers at UCLA and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign determined that a computer program they developed started to recognize features of peptides...
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Cognitive Computers Work Like the Human Brain
Neural networks and cognitive computing software emulate the way humans think.
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Artificial Intelligence Robots: Why Human Baby Brains Are Smarter Than AI
Machines are capable of understanding speech, recognizing faces and driving cars safely, making recent technological advancements seem impressively powerful.
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Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Are Remaking Themselves Around AI
Fei-Fei Li is a big deal in the world of AI. As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she oversaw the creation of...
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Google Translate: 'this Landmark pdate Is Our Biggest Single Leap in 10 Years'
Google says it is has vastly improved the accuracy of Google Translate through its new Neural Machine Translation system, which utilizes neural networks to train...
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China's Driverless Trucks Are Revving Their Engines
China is gearing up to overhaul its road delivery with fleets of self-driving long-haul trucks.
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World's First Photonic Neural Network nveiled
Neural networks are taking the world of computing by storm.
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Intel Looks to a New Chip to Power the Coming Age of AI
Microsoft researchers recently built an artificially intelligent system that seems to recognize conversational speech as effectively as a human.
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Cow Goes Moo: Artificial Intelligence-Based System Associates Images With Sounds
Using artificial-intelligence techniques, a new system from Disney Research and ETH Zurich is capable of learning the association between images and the sounds...
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New AI Algorithm Taught By Humans Learns Beyond Its Training
Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have developed an algorithm that can learn directly from human instructions rather than a set of examples.
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Artificial-Intelligence System Surfs Web to Improve Its Performance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed a new approach to information extraction that inverts conventional machine learning.
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Real or Not? SC Study Finds Many Political Tweets Come From Fake Accounts
University of Southern California researchers found bots made up nearly 20% of the political conversation on Twitter during the U.S. presidential campaign season...
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Accelerating Cancer Research With Deep Learning
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are applying deep-learning techniques to automate how information is collected from cancer pathology reports.
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Robovote Helps Groups Make Decisions sing AI-Driven Methods
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Harvard universities have launched an online service that enables optimal group decisions.
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AI Science Search Engines Expand Their Reach
A free AI-based scholarly search engine that aims to outdo Google Scholar is expanding its corpus of papers to cover some 10 million research articles in computer...
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Driverless-Vehicle Options Now Include Scooters
Researchers have developed an autonomous mobility scooter using the same sensor configuration and software used in previous trials of autonomous cars and golf carts...
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