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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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More-Flexible Machine Learning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers plan to present a machine-learning technique that enables semantically-related concepts to reinforce each other...
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Robot See, Robot Do: How Robots Can Learn New Tasks By Observing
It can take weeks to reprogram an industrial robot to perform a complicated new task, which makes retooling a modern manufacturing line painfully expensive and...
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Thought Process: Building an Artificial Brain
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is funding a pair of parallel projects to understand the nature of intelligence.
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A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot
Videos of Google-owned robots, some that look like mechanical bulls and others resembling humanoids from sci-fi movies, have been viewed more than 90 million times...
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Moon-Landing Equivalent For Robotics: Assembling an Ikea Chair
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are developing a robot that will be able to assemble an IKEA chair.
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Eurathlon 2015 Announces Grand Challenge Winners
The euRathlon consortium has announced the winners of its 2015 Grand Challenge after several days of competition in September in Piombino, Italy.
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Google AI Beats Humans at More Classic Arcade Games Than Ever Before
Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence has been upgraded to defeat human players in 1980s arcade games even better than before.
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Scientists Update Views of Light
Experiment sheds new light on wave-particle duality.
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Automotive Systems Get Smarter
Automotive infotainment systems are driving changes to automobiles, and to driver behavior.
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Barbie Wants to Get to Know Your Child
It looked like a child's playroom: toys in cubbies, a little desk for doing homework, a whimsical painting of a tree on the wall.
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Forget the Turing Test — There Are Better Ways of Judging AI
Despite the media furor over reports last year that a chatbot had "passed" the Turing test, most artificial intelligence (AI) researchers no longer view the test...
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Instead of Robots Taking Jobs, AI May Help Humans Do Their Jobs Better
Oregon State University professor Tom Dietterich sees vast potential for collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence (AI), contrary to popular assumptions...
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King Man + Woman = Queen: The Marvelous Mathematics of Computational Linguistics
Computational linguistics has dramatically changed the way researchers study and understand language.
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Researchers at Western niversity Hope to se Artificial Intelligence to Improve Breast Cancer Patient Outcomes
Researchers at the University of Western Ontario believe artificial intelligence can help remove the guesswork from breast cancer treatment.
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Forget the Turing Test—there Are Better Ways of Judging AI
Last Saturday I took part in a battle of wits at Bletchley Park, the stately home that housed the U.K.’s codebreakers during the second world war.
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Software Is Smart Enough For Sat, but Still Far From Intelligent
An artificial intelligence software program capable of seeing and reading has for the first time answered geometry questions from the SAT at the level of an average...
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Robotic Limbs Get a Sense of Touch
Advanced prosthetics have for the past few years begun tapping into brain signals to provide amputees with impressive new levels of control.
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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Now There's an App For That
The California HealthCare Foundation offered $100,000 for an algorithm that would allow artificial intelligence to detect retinal damage due to diabetic retinopathy...
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The Search For a Thinking Machine
Thanks, in part, to a new era of machine learning, computer are already starting to assimilate information from raw data in the same way as the human infant learns...
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