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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Tech Nightmares That Keep Turing Award Winners p at Night
Three ACM A.M. Turing Award winning-scientists discuss technology trends they find very troubling.
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Super-Intelligent Machines Spawned By Ai? Execs Aren't Worried
Technology experts at an artificial intelligence-themed event were dismissive of scenarios in which super-intelligent machines eventually surpass human intelligence...
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avs Learn to Fly Solo
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Robust Robotics Group want to teach unmanned aerial vehicles and other robots to think for themselves...
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Should Cops Be Allowed to Take Control of Self-Driving Cars?
A few lines in a seemingly routine RAND Corp. report on the future of technology and law enforcement last week raised a provocative question: Should police have...
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Robots Learn to Make Pancakes From Wikihow Articles
European researchers have developed a robot that is learning to make pizzas and pancakes by reading through WikiHow's written directions.
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Perth Researcher Develops Software That Can Recognize Plant Species sing Leaf Photos
Edith Cowan University's Hezekiah Babatunde has developed an image-recognition program that can identify plant species from a photograph of a single leaf.
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You'd Never Know It Wasn't Bach (or Even Human)
A Yale University computer scientist is refining a program that produces music, which has fooled more than 200 humans into thinking the music was created by a human...
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How Close Are We Really to a Robot-Run Society?
From Rosie, the Jetsons' robot maid, to Arnold Schwarzenegger's cyborg in The Terminator, popular culture has frequently conceived of robots as having a human-like...
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Split Second
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.
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Robotics Research at mass Lowell That Could Change the World--Really
University of Massachusetts Lowell researcher Holly Yanco will collaborate on several projects designed to help save lives and help people with mobility issues.
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Researchers Tinker With Flying, Rolling Rfid-Sensorized Robots
A team of researchers have developed a prototype robot-based environmental-measuring system from commercially available components.
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Natural Selection: Mama Robot Builds Self-Evolving Baby-Bots
The theory of natural selection popularised by Charles Darwin has now been demonstrated in robots.
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Baidu Explains How It's Mastering Mandarin With Deep Learning
In an interview, Baidu engineer Awni Hannun discusses a new model for handling Mandarin voice queries that tests found is accurate 94 percent of the time.
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AI Football Manager Knows How Different Teams Play the Game
Who really calls the shots in team sports?
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A Machine in the Co-Pilot's Seat
Joel Walker, a test pilot for Aurora Flight Sciences, a maker of autonomous aircraft, flew his small, twin-engine plane through rain squalls here recently, and...
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Computer-Human Hybrids Could Be Best at Scanning For Danger
In A world of algorithms, there are still a few places where humans reign supreme.
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Summon the Comfy Chairs!
Researchers in Europe and the United States are developing a bevy of roboticized furniture they think will fill the gap between simpler domestic robots such as...
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Bird-Brained Drones?
Researchers are studying birds and insects in order to make drone flight second nature.
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3D-Printed Device Helps Computers Solve Cocktail-Party Problem
Artificial-intelligence researchers have long struggled to make computers perform a task that is simple for humans: picking out one person’s speech when multiple...
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