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New Method Reduces Amount of Training Data Needed For Facial Performance Capture System
Disney Research has developed a facial-capture system that uses a sample of actors' recordings to synthetically generate the data needed to train the system.
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Computer Vision Leader Fei-Fei Li on Why AI Needs Diversity
As artificial intelligence technologies increasingly are deployed to meet industrial and personal needs, the field will need to address its lack of ethnic and gender...
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The Pentagon has made artificial intelligence the core of its agenda to maintain the U.S. position as the world's leading military power.
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The small drone, with its six whirring rotors, swept past the replica of a Middle Eastern village and closed in on a mosque-like structure, its camera scanning...
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AI Experts Weigh in on the White House Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence experts stress the need for clarity around certain economic and safety ramifications of artificial intelligence technologies.
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Stephen Hawking Opens British Artificial Intelligence Hub
Stephen Hawking on Wednesday opened an artificial research center at Cambridge University in the U.K.
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Mit's 'moral Machine' Crowdsources Decisions About Autonomous Driving, but Experts Call It Misguided
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab's "Moral Machine" platform lets the public judge the types of ethical decisions autonomous vehicles should make...
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Preparing For the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Considering the utilization, opportunities, and future challenges of Artificial Intelligence.
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Stepping p Security For an Internet-of-Things World
As the Internet of things moves closer to realization, initiatives must be taken to ensure the technology is secure, says Michael Walker at DARPA. "If we want...
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How Vector Space Mathematics Helps Machines Spot Sarcasm
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay led by Aditya Joshi report developing a new strategy to help computers better detect the presence of sarcasm...
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Google's AI Reasons Its Way Around the London nderground
Artificial-intelligence systems known as neural networks can recognize images, translate languages and even master the ancient game of Go. But their limited ability...
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White House: AI Will Be Critical Driver of .S. Economy
A new White House report says artificial intelligence can be a critical economic and societal driver with its development supported by a collaboration between industry...
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China Has Now Eclipsed US in AI Research
Humanity may still be years if not decades away from producing sentient artificial intelligence.
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Deep Learning: Achilles Heel in Robo-Car Tests
Machine learning is a serious impediment to the performance of autonomous cars in safety tests. "The training dataset does not conform to traditional expectations...
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Here's How the White House Wants the .s. to Approach AI R&d
The White House has issued two new reports that detail how the U.S. government wants to approach research and development into artificial intelligence and what...
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The White House Frontiers Conference
President Barack Obama on Thursday will host the White House Frontiers Conference, an event co-hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University...
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Computer Scientist Publishes Manifesto For Expressive Algorithmic Music
Gerhard Widmer at Austria's Johannes Kepler University has published a manifesto for music information research. He argues the field should refocus so it can facilitate...
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Australia Says Its First Self-Driving Car Can 'navigate Without Driver Input'
An autonomous automobile developed by German manufacturer Bosch in collaboration with the Australian government were to be tested on Australian roads this week....
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Your Next Nurse Could Be a Robot
Researchers from Italy's Polytechnic University of Milan led an international team that trained a robot to imitate natural human actions.
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