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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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Legal Issues with Robots
Who is responsible when property is damaged or someone is injured by an automated system? Existing product liability laws have not yet been tested in the context...
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The mbilical Link of Man to Robot
Atlas doesn't shrug. But he teeters, loses his grip, stutters, and staggers.
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Killer Robots With Automatic Rifles Could Be on the Battlefield in 5 Years
Robots armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank missiles and even grenade launchers are marching, er, rolling ever closer to the battlefield now that they’ve shown...
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The Rapid Advance of Artificial Intelligence
The latest work in the realm of artificial intelligence by scientists, roboticists, and others could potentially transform the world within the next five years. ...
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How IBM Is Making Computers More Like Your Brain. For Real
Despite a strong philosophical connection, computers and brains inhabit separate realms in research.
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The Rapid Advance of Artificial Intelligence
A gaggle of Harry Potter fans descended for several days this summer on the Oregon Convention Center in Portland for the Leaky Con gathering, an annual haunt of...
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Intel Sees a Future Where We Will Form 'relationships' with Our Gadgets
Rugged individualists aside, many people find themselves increasingly connected not just to one another but also to the devices that make those connections possible...
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Facial Recognition Is More Accurate in Photos Showing Whole Person
People rely on non-facial cues, such as body shape and build, to identify people in challenging viewing conditions, such as poor lighting.
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Better Robot Vision
Researchers have developed a robot-vision algorithm they say is 15 percent better than its best competitor at identifying familiar objects in cluttered scenes. ...
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Virtual Reality Gaming Is Nearly Here; We Just Need the Right Controller
Video games have long promised to offer their players "immersive experiences," but full-blown virtual reality—the holodeck or the matrix—was still a fantasy.
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Autonomous Vehicles Roll Forward
Self-driving vehicles will likely provide substantial benefits, and introduce new challenges.
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Send in the Bots
Scientists are using autonomous robots to make discoveries about animal behavior and cognition, some of which would be impossible using live animals.
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The Mathematical Shape of Things to Come
Simon DeDeo, a research fellow in applied mathematics and complex systems at the Santa Fe Institute, had a problem.
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Stanford Algorithm Analyzes Sentence Sentiment, Advances Machine Learning
Neural Analysis of Sentiment is software that analyzes sentences from movie reviews and rates the sentiments they express on a five-point scale.
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Making Artificial Intelligence More Human
The MIT Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines has launched an initiative to develop intelligence incorporating the ability to intuit basic concepts of psychology...
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Kurzweil: The Human Brain on It
Information technology is causing the rate at which the world is changing to accelerate, says Ray Kurzweil.
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Quantum Computers Check Each Other’s Work
A new strategy for verifying the solutions of quantum computers relies on a blind quantum computing technique.
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A Google Glass Alternative in Japan
Foreign tourists visiting this city have long encountered translation help.
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c San Diego, md Researchers to Build ‘wifire’ Cyberinfrastructure
A project called WIFIRE aims to develop a cyberinfrastructure to improve wildfire predictions and simulations.
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