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The Neural Network That Remembers
A recurrent neural network developed at the University of California, San Diego can mine patterns in reviews and write its own contextually relevant reviews.
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Is Blockchain the Most Important It Invention of Our Age?
There are not many occasions when one can give an unqualified thumbs-up to something the government does, but this is one such occasion.
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A Bright Approach to Brain Implants
The brain was once considered a "black box," a device so mysterious that you could only guess what it was doing by observing human behavior.
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Go Players React to Computer Defeat
For decades, the ancient game of Go has stood out as the one board game that computers couldn't crack.
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Scenic Sat-Nav Will Take You on the Prettiest Route
Autobahn is an artificial intelligence system that can use Google Street View images to optimize a driving route for a particular type of scenery.
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Next Big Test For Ai: Making Sense of the World
A few years ago, a breakthrough in machine learning suddenly enabled computers to recognize objects shown in photographs with unprecedented—almost spooky—accuracy...
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Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist's thirst for knowledge with a philosopher's quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence, work that...
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Models of Pedestrian Flow Stumble Because People Change Their Minds
The flow of pedestrians is a critical part of the design of buildings, stadiums, and much more.
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After 2,500 Years, a Chinese Gaming Mystery Is Solved
Computer scientist John Tromp has discovered the total number of legal positions on Go's standard 19x19 board.
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$28m Challenge to Figure Out Why Brains Are So Good at Learning
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has invested more than $28 million in grants toward the development of advanced machine-learning algorithms...
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Europe's Top Digital-Privacy Watchdog Zeros In on .s. Tech Giants
The latest standoff between Europe and American tech companies runs through a quiet street just north of the Louvre Museum, past chic cafes and part of the French...
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NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Tastes Scooped, Sieved Sand
At its current location for inspecting an active sand dune, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is adding some sample-processing moves not previously used on Mars.
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Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?
In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University's campus in Washington.
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Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief
Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google's Solve for X conference...
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This Smartphone Technology 3d Maps Your Meal and Counts Its Calories
NutriRay3D is a new laser-mapping technology/smartphone app that lets users point a smartphone at food and get an accurate count of its total calories and nutrition...
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Crispr Goes Commercial
Within just three years since the discovery of its gene-editing potential, the new technique Crispr has become the hottest, and most controversial, development...
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Here Come the Robots: Davos Bosses Brace For Big Technology Shocks
Implantable mobile phones. 3D-printed organs for transplant. Clothes and reading-glasses connected to the Internet.
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Football Coaches Are Turning to AI For Help Calling Plays
In 1996, IBM'S Deep Blue became the first supercomputer to defeat a chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, in a game.
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Can Augmented Reality Make Remote Communication Feel More Intimate?
Nothing beats talking to another person face-to-face, but a group of researchers are considering whether a life-size projection of a person that appears to be sitting...
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