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A Japanese AI Almost Won a Literary Prize
A short-form novel co-authored by an artificial intelligence has successfully passed the initial screening of a Japanese literary competition.
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Marvin Minsky: 1927-2016
Marvin Minsky, an American scientist who co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AI laboratory and was honored with the ACM A.M. Turing Award, passed...
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A Computer With a Great Eye Is About to Transform Botany
My dad is a wildlife biologist, and during road trips we took when I was growing up he spent a lot of time talking about the grasses and trees along the highway...
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Human Eyes Assist Drones, Teach Machines to See
Researchers have developed a new strategy combining crowdsourcing and machine learning for rapidly interpreting aerial images captured by camera drones.
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The Meaning of Alphago, the AI Program That Beat a Go Champ
The victory of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo algorithm over a champion Go player is seen as a resurgence for deep learning.
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This Trading Card Game AI Watches and Learns From You
Cryptozoic Entertainment is working to reimagine how people play video games with computer-controlled opponents.
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Driverless Cars Must Have Steering Wheels, Brake Pedals, Feds Say
Driverless cars should have a fairly easy time getting the green light to operate on U.S. roadways, as long as they look and act like the vehicles people have been...
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New Technique Wipes Out nwanted Data
Researchers have developed a machine-learning method that involves making such systems forget the data's "lineage" so they can remove the data and undo its effects...
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Robot Learning Companion Offers Custom-Tailored Tutoring
Researchers from Tel Aviv University and MIT have developed a socially assistive robot that can serve as a one-to-one peer for learning in the classroom or for...
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The Need For Cognitive Computing
Companies get help digging the pearls of wisdom out of their big data.
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What AI Can Tell S About the .s. Supreme Court
Researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's Discovery Analytics Center have proposed using machine learning to model the U.S. Supreme Court...
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To Get Truly Smart, AI Might Need to Play More Video Games
The latest computer games can be fantastically realistic.
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What Google's Winning Go Algorithm Will Do Next
Following the defeat of one of its finest human players, the ancient game of Go has joined the growing list of tasks at which computers perform better than humans...
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How Google's AI Viewed the Move No Human Could nderstand
The move didn't make sense to the humans packed into the sixth floor of Seoul's Four Seasons hotel. But the Google machine saw it quite differently.
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New Learning Procedure For Neural Networks
Max Planck Institute researcher Robert Gutig has used a computer model to develop a new learning procedure for neural networks.
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The .s. Government Launches a $100-Million 'apollo Project of the Brain'
A new $100-million project will reverse-engineer a section of the brain in order to improve machine-learning and artificial-intelligence algorithms.
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One-in-Three Developers Fear AI Will Replace Them
A survey of developers found nearly a third identify the most worrisome part of their careers as the potential to be replaced by artificial intelligence.
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Facebook's AI Is Learning Language By Reading Loads of Children's Books
Facebook is using data from children's books to train its artificial intelligence system, and one of the system's focal points is understanding natural language...
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The .s. Government Launches a $100-Million 'apollo Project of the Brain'
Three decades ago, the U.S. government launched the Human Genome Project, a 13-year endeavor to sequence and map all the genes of the human species.
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