Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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MIT Engineers Hand 'cognitive' Control to nderwater Robots
Researchers have developed a new approach to programming autonomous underwater vehicles that increases their "cognitive" capabilities.
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Great Innovative Idea: Machine Teaching
Machine teaching is machine learning turned upside down.
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Human vs Machine As Top Poker Pros Take On AI
It's humans versus machine at the Rivers casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Four professional poker players are squaring up to an artificial intelligence over...
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A Better Way to Build Brain-Inspired Chips
Memristors, exotic electronic devices only confirmed to exist in 2008, have been used to create a chip that borrows design points from the brain.
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Computer Scientists Combine Computer Vision and Brain Computer Interface For Faster Mine Detection
University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a new method to speed the detection of landmines in sonar images of the ocean floor.
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Artificial Intelligence Experts Are in High Demand
Demand for artificial intelligence know-how has exploded in recent years, and major technology firms are turning to the ranks of academia to find that expertise...
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At the Heart of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence, Human Emotions
Facebook Inc. doesn't yet have an intelligent assistant, like the iPhone's Siri.
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Vint Cerf on Acm, Internet Issues, and Quantum and Machine Computing
Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet and vice president at Google, discusses modern challenges of the Internet, technologies of the future, and ACM.
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Deep Learning Machine Solves the Cocktail Party Problem
The cocktail party effect is the ability to focus on a specific human voice while filtering out other voices or background noise.
From ACM TechNews
When Robot Personalities Mimic the Dead
The creation of robots with personalities mimicking celebrities and other deceased persons could be controversial in terms of how people may react to them.
From Communications of the ACM
Is 'Good Enough' Computing Good Enough?
The energy-accuracy trade-off in approximate computing.
From Communications of the ACM
Robots With a Human Touch
Empowering smart machines with tactile feedback could lead to tremendous new applications.
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Computers That Know How You Feel Will Soon Be Everywhere
Sometime next summer, you'll be able to watch a horror series that is exactly as scary as you want it to be—no more, no less.
From ACM Opinion
3 Questions on Killer Robots
Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons are meeting this week in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons—machines that could...
From ACM TechNews
Car Safety System Could Anticipate Driver's Mistakes
Cornell University researchers have developed an algorithm-based automotive system to predict if the driver will turn, change lanes, or continue going straight. ...
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'robobarista' Can Figure Out Your New Coffee Machine
A Cornell University research team has developed a deep-learning algorithm that enables a robot to operate a machine it has never seen before.
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Can We Stop Killer Robots? U.N. Meets to Debate Possible Treaty
The United Nations' Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons this week heard from experts on the subject of killer robots, or "lethal autonomous weapons systems...
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Welcome to Robot Hotel
A new generation of autonomous robots will usher in changes in the hospitality industry and beyond.
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