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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Engineers Build Molecular Framework to Bridge Experimental, Computer Sciences for Peptide-Based Materials Engineering
Engineers have closed the gap between experimental and computer sciences to better predict peptide structures with a molecular framework.
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Flaws Plague Tool Meant to Help Low-Risk Federal Prisoners Win Early Release
The U.S. Department of Justice found persistent flaws in an algorithm used to qualify low-risk federal prisoners for early release.
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AI Can Analyze Eye Scans To Identify Risk of Heart Attack
The system—which has 70% to 80% accuracy—predicts if patients are at risk of a heart attack over the next year.
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Controlling Complex Systems with AI
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that can solve complex control problems.
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Artificial Intelligence: Digital Pen Helps People Learn to Write
Teachers are given more freedom for creative and communicative tasks.
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AI's Potential Boon to Businesses
E-commerce companies can more efficiently organize products and help customers find what they want with artificial intelligence.
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First Felony Charges in Fatal Crash Involving Autopilot
The driver of a Tesla on Autopilot that ran a red light and killed two people in another car in 2019 faces two counts of vehicular manslaughter.
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Solving for Why
A focus on causality is promising to help researchers overcome shortcomings that have bedeviled more traditional approaches to artificial intelligence.
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Virtual Duplicates
Digital twins aim to model reality so we can see how it changes.
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and the Fight Against World Hunger
Advancements in AI, machine learning, and next-gen technologies are transforming the fight against world hunger.
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The Rise of A.I. Fighter Pilots
Artificial intelligence is being taught to fly warplanes. Can the technology be trusted?
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The First AI Breast Cancer Sleuth That Shows Its Work
An artificial intelligence platform developed by researchers at Duke University analyzes mammography scans to determine whether patients should undergo an invasive...
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Deep Learning Model Shows Eyes Hold the Key to True Biological Age
An international study suggests the eye's retina could determine a person's true biological age.
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UC Engineers Develop Navigation to Avoid Collisions
A new collision-avoidance system brings engineers a step closer to designing robots to repair satellites or spacecraft in orbit.
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AI Turned a Rembrandt Masterpiece into 5.6 Terabytes of Data
An ultra-high-resolution image of Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" was constructed from 8,439 photos that were digitized, color-corrected, and stitched together by...
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Moon's Hidden Depths Uncovered with Algorithm
An international team of scientists developed a deep learning algorithm to more deeply explore permanently shadowed regions of the Moon.
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Former Google Scientist Says the Computers that Run our Lives Exploit Us
Meet Hume AI, a potentially more humane way to let the machines in.
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Reaching Across the Aisle to Find the Algorithms of Vision
Two styles of understanding visual processing—discriminative and generative approaches—have guided researchers on separate paths for decades, but now are being...
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Camden Yards to Test Using AI for Security at Some Orioles Games This Season
"We believe this type of threat detection technology is the future of keeping fans safe at events," said Vernon J. Conaway Jr., the stadium authority's vice president...
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