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Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI
Google's Project Loon plans to use balloons to beam the Internet from the stratosphere down to people on Earth where access is otherwise unavailable.
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Google's New Service Translates Languages Almost as Well as Humans Can
Google's latest advance in machine learning could make the world a little smaller.
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Programmable Chips Turning Azure Into a Supercomputing Powerhouse
Microsoft is embarking on a major upgrade of its Azure systems.
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Automated Screening For Childhood Communication Disorders
Researchers have used machine learning to develop a computer system that can automatically screen young children for speech and language disorders.
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Ibm and Mit Partner p to Create AI That nderstands Sight and Sound the Way We Do
The new IBM-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Brain-inspired Multimedia Machine Comprehension will research computer vision and audition.
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Stealing an AI Algorithm and Its nderlying Data Is a 'high-School Level Exercise'
Cornell Tech researchers have shown they can reverse-engineer machine-learning algorithms, essentially stealing artificial intelligence products and using them...
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Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI
This summer, the Google X lab launched a balloon into the stratosphere over Peru, and it stayed there for 98 days.
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The Wikipedia Bots that Are Engaged in Spats that Never End
Is. Isn't. Is. Isn’t. Is. Isn't.
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Battling Algorithmic Bias
How do we ensure algorithms treat us fairly?
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Bringing Holography to Light
While 3D technologies that make headlines are not truly holographic, holographic techniques are furthering advances in important applications such as biomedical...
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Optical Fibers Getting Full
Exploring ways to push more data through a fiber one-tenth the thickness of the average human hair.
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Cheap Lidar: The Key to Makingself-Driving Cars Affordable
Chances are you've never seen a fully autonomous self-driving car out on the street.
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In Backing Autonomous Cars, .s. Tells Automakers to Figure It Out
The Obama administration's approach to hands-free driving is remarkably hands-off.
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Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming. But Why Now?
This is the year artificial intelligence came into its own for mainstream businesses, at least as a marketing feature.
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Google's Go Language Ventures Into Machine Learning
There is a growing interest in having Go toolkits that take advantage of the language's conveniences.
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A Lesson of Tesla Crashes? Computer Vision Can't Do It All Yet
Jitendra Malik, a researcher in computer vision for three decades, doesn't own a Tesla, but he has advice for people who do.
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The Extraordinary Link Between Deep Neural Networks and the Nature of the niverse
In the last couple of years, deep learning techniques have transformed the world of artificial intelligence.
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AI Can Recognize Your Face Even If You're Pixelated
Pixelation has long been a familiar fig leaf to cover our visual media’s most private parts.
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Your Car's New Software Is Ready. Update Now?
Tired of your vehicle and its aging, limited features? Don’t trade it in just yet. Download new software instead.
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