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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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Knowledge Transfer: Computers Teach Each Other Pac-Man
A computer now can give advice and teach skills to another computer similar to the way a real teacher interacts with a student.
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The Build-Up: Good and Ready
Robotics appears to be preparing for a major acceleration after a slow start.
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Can a Computer Craft Compelling Stories?
University of Southern California professor Andrew Gordon has a new project that involves getting computers to read and generate stories.
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Immigrants From the Future
Robots intrigue both designers and enthusiasts in a way that goes beyond the technology's current practical applications.
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Carnegie Mellon Robot Invites Humans to Play Mean Game of Scrabble
Victor is obsessed with SCRABBLE.
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The Electronic Holy War
In May, 1997, I.B.M.'s Deep Blue supercomputer prevailed over Garry Kasparov in a series of six chess games, becoming the first computer to defeat a world-champion...
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Carnegie Mellon Robot Invites Humans to Play Mean Game of Scrabble
Victor is a Scrabble-playing social robot designed to help scientists better understand what it takes to get people to enjoy interacting with a robot.
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Hypnotic Art Shows How Patterns Emerge From Randomness in Nature
British mathematician Alan Turing is perhaps best known for the Turing test, which determines if a computer can be considered intelligent based on whether it can...
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New Focus For Robotics: Artificial Creativity
The founding director of the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech is exploring how creative robots can be.
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The Robot Tricks to Bridge the Uncanny Valley
If A robot bleeped and squeaked with personality like R2D2 from Star Wars, would you like it better?
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Artificial Intelligence Challenge: Could a Robot Give Its Own Ted Talk?
The TED organization has partnered with X Prize to develop a competition to have an AI-based robot "deliver a compelling TED Talk with no human involvement."
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A 'babelfish' Could Be the Web's Next Big Thing, Says AI Expert
University of Southampton professor Nigel Shadbolt thinks automatic real-time machine translation could be possible within 25 years.
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New Models in Cosmetics Replacing Animal Testing
A European law spurs scientists to develop computational simulations capable of predicting the toxicity of cosmetics.
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Speech-to-Speech Translations Stutter, But Researchers See Mellifluous Future
The practical need for accurate instant or simultaneous machine translations continues to grow as applications multiply.
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Using Patient Data For Personalized Cancer Treatments
Patient information databases eventually will help improve health outcomes and support development of new therapies.
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Smartphone to Become Smarter With 'deep Learning' Innovation
Researchers are developing a deep-learning method to enable smartphones and other mobile devices to understand and identify objects in a camera's field of view. ...
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China's Moon Rover Awake but Immobile
China's Moon rover Yutu, or "Jade Rabbit," has stopped hopping. But its ears are still twitching—and communicating with Earth.
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Facebook Creates Software That Matches Faces Almost as Well as You Do
Asked whether two unfamiliar photos of faces show the same person, a human being will get it right 97.53 percent of the time.
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The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot
Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake.
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