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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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The Future of Robot Nannies
A machine can't love our children, but our children might love them.
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What Does It Mean for AI to Understand?
It's simple enough for AI to seem to comprehend data, but devising a true test of a machine's knowledge has proved difficult.
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ML Flags Remedies That Might Do More Harm Than Good
Scientists designed a machine learning model to identify medical treatments that could pose greater potential danger than alternatives.
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Shrinking Artificial Intelligence
Energy concerns push AI optimizations to the edge.
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See Little Robots Get Swole in This Virtual 'Gym'
The bizarre robots look like cobbled-together Tetris pieces. A new system "evolves" them to run, climb, and throw stuff better.
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Engineers Teach AI to Navigate Ocean with Minimal Energy
Artificial intelligence technology is being used to enable autonomous drones exploring the deep ocean to navigate using currents instead of fighting them.
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Human-Like Brain Helps Robot Out of Maze
A neuromorphic robot can navigate mazes using a human brain-like model.
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Computing Scenarios for Defusing Polarized Politics
Researchers used agent-based modeling to explore political polarization in the U.S. and possible preventive approaches.
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Robot Plays Table Tennis After 90 Minutes of Training
Researchers developed a computer simulation that taught a virtual robot arm outfitted with a table tennis racket how to return virtual ping pong balls.
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Group Backed by Top Companies Moves to Combat AI Bias in Hiring
Major employers in a variety of industries have signed up with the Data & Trust Alliance in an effort to prevent bias in artificial intelligence software used for...
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Reddit-trained AI Warns Researchers About...Itself
"AI will never be ethical," argued the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model.
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Quenching the Flames: AI, Data Help Fight Global Wildfires
New technologies are being deployed to predict, monitor, and fight wildfires as their frequency and ferocity grow.
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The Movement to Hold AI Accountable Gains More Steam
A New York City law requires algorithms used in hiring to be "audited" for bias. It's the first in the US—and part of a larger push toward regulation.
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The Head of the CIA Says It's Been Doing Mysterious Cryptocurrency Work
Naturally, rumors are spreading about the origins of Bitcoin.
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Australia's AI Cameras Catch Over 270,000 Drivers Using Phones
Artificial intelligence-equipped cameras have spotted more than 270,000 drivers using phones while driving in New South Wales, Australia, since March 2020.
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DeepMind AI Helps Study Strange Electrons in Chemical Reactions
Strange fractional electrons are crucial to many chemical reactions, but traditional methods cannot model them, a problem DeepMind used machine learning to fix....
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America Needs AI Literacy Now
Seventy percent of study participants believe AI is a single program that can perform a broad range of tasks, like autocompleting sentences.
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Building Human-Robot Relationships Through Music and Dance
A performance called FOREST is exploring trust through creative collaboration.
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