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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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This Trading Card Game AI Watches and Learns From You
Cryptozoic Entertainment is working to reimagine how people play video games with computer-controlled opponents.
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Google’s AI Wins First Game in Historic Match With Go Champion
Google’s Go-playing computer system has beaten one of the world’s top players in the first game of a five-game match in Seoul.
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Pentagon Launching Bug Bounty Program
The Pentagon is inviting vetted hackers to the Hack the Pentagon initiative, the U.S. government's first "bug bounty" program.
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Software Agents Begin to Form Personal Rapport with sers
Making friends with software.
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Carnegie Mellon's Pokerbot Models Asymmetric Data
Carnegie Mellon University's Pokerbot won first place at the Annual Computer Poker Competition in the total bankroll category.
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An Algorithm For Teamwork
A team of University of Victoria students took first place at the third annual BattleSnake competition hosted by the university.
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Advertising Company Will se Its Billboards To Track Passing Cellphones
Clear Channel Outdoor—one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the U.S.—is starting a new program called Radar that will use billboards to map real-world...
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Pentagon Starts Aggressive Cyberwar Against Is
Not long after Defense Secretary Ash Carter prodded his cyber commanders to be more aggressive in the fight against Islamic State, the U.S. ramped up its offensive...
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Facebook Is Making a Map of Everyone in the World
Americans inhabit an intricately mapped world.
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Deep or Shallow, NLP Is Breaking Out
Neural net advances improve computers' language ability in many fields.
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Rich Data, Poor Fields
Diverse technologies help farmers produce food in resource-poor areas.
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How to Build an nbeatable Poker-Playing Robot
The allure of building superior poker-playing computer programs is the chance to tackle the challenge of dealing with missing information.
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Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World nemployed'
Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...
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Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot
One night in late July 2014, a journalist from the Chinese newspaper Southern Weeklyinterviewed a 17-year-old Chinese girl named Xiaoice (pronounced Shao-ice).
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'on-Ramping' Paves the Way For Women Scientists, Engineers to Return to Academia
Researchers interviewed 10 women who successfully transitioned into university faculty after working as corporate scientists or industry or government researchers...
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Planning For a Disease Outbreak? There's a Game For That.
Researchers are developing new software that can predict, simulate, and analyze a major disease outbreak in the form of an intuitive, multiplayer game.
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If You Go Near the Super Bowl, You Will Be Surveilled Hard
Super Bowl 50 will be big in every way.
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Techiest Super Bowl Ever: Silicon Valley's Stadium Girds For the Big Game
Levi's Stadium has been in beta since it opened a year and a half ago.
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Alphabet Program Beats the European Human Go Champion
The AlphaGo program beat European Go champion Fan Hui in a series of five matches and achieved a 99.8-percent winning rate against other Go programs.
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