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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Cities Using Digital Twins Like SimCity for Policymakers
Cities like Orlando, FL, and Singapore are using digital twins to generate virtual models of themselves, in order to simulate the effects of potential new policies...
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Putting 3D Printers to Work in Ukraine's War Zone
Entrepreneurs in Poland are rushing three-dimensional printers to Ukraine for the manufacture of defensive equipment.
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Can AI Help Casinos Cut Down on Problem Gambling?
The opportunities seem endless. The reality is much more complicated.
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AI Beats 8 World Champions at Bridge
Victory marks milestone for AI as bridge requires more human skills than other strategy games
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How AI is Cleaning Up the High Seas
The state of maritime monitoring hasn't changed much in generations. Pirates beware; AI is changing that.
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Scientists Finish Decoding Last 8% of Human Genome
An international team of researchers completed the decoding of the final 8% of the human genome.
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Fighting Discrimination in Mortgage Lending
To help combat discrimination in mortgage lending, a new process can remove bias from the data used to train machine learning models.
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Watch a Robot Peel a Banana Without Crushing It
A machine learning system developed by researchers at Japan's University of Tokyo can train a robot to peel a banana without crushing it.
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Cyber War Talks Heat Up at U.N. With Russia at Table
Group is trying to define what is acceptable in cyberspace.
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Estimating the Pace of Change
An international research team has developed a new method for determining the pace of change.
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UPS Expands Deal with Google Cloud to Prepare for Surge in Data
United Parcel Service has expanded its deal with Google Cloud, which will involve greater network, storage, and computing capacity.
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Tiny, Cheap Solution for Quantum-Secure Encryption
Researchers at Washington State University in St. Louis have proposed a quantum-secure system that is inexpensive, convenient, and scalable.
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Starfall: Finding a Meteorite with Drones and AI
Neural network used to spot a space rock in the Australian outback.
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Robot Truckers Could Replace 500K U.S. Jobs
Autonomous driving engineers are developing driverless trucks for long-haul freight that runs along simple interstate routes.
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Leveraging AI to Work with Cells
Researchers developed a new version of their Nanofountain Probe Electroporation tool to execute cell engineering tasks using artificial intelligence.
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The FTC's New Enforcement Weapon Spells Death for Algorithms
It may have found a new standard for penalizing tech companies that violate privacy and use deceptive data practices: algorithmic destruction.
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Russia's Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare
The maker of the lethal drone claims that it can identify targets using artificial intelligence.
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Helping A.I. to Learn About Indigenous Cultures
Data on Native communities are not at the levels needed for accuracy in A.I.-driven tools. A group is trying to solve that problem.
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Can AI Learn to Forget?
Specialized techniques may make it possible to induce selective 'amnesia' in machine learning models.
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