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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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Rentokil Pilots Facial Recognition System as Way to Exterminate Rats
U.K. pest control services provider Rentokil is testing facial recognition software as a tool for rat extermination.
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Decoding Brainwaves to Identify What Music Is Being Listened To
A brainwave-monitoring technique created by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Essex can identify to which specific piece of music people are listening.
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Faces from Ancient Egypt Coming Back to Life in Extraordinary Detail
Researchers at the U.K.'s Liverpool John Moores University and Egypt's Cairo University used software and a "reverse aging" process to replicate ancient Egyptian...
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CNET Secretly Used AI on Articles That Didn't Disclose That Fact, Staff Say
"They use AI to rewrite the intros every two weeks or so because Google likes updated content. Eventually it gets so mangled that about every four months a real...
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The AI Magic Show
Explanations about how deep learning and large language models actually work often emphasized incomprehensibility, or a model's explainability or interpretability...
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Finally, a Fast Algorithm for Shortest Paths on Negative Graphs
Researchers can now find the shortest route through a network nearly as fast as theoretically possible, even when some steps can cancel out others.
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Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight
A rival chatbot has shaken Google out of its routine, with the founders who left three years ago re-engaging and more than 20 A.I. projects in the works.
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How the Netherlands Is Taming Big Tech
Netherlands government and educational institutions have pushed big tech companies to make significant privacy changes by negotiating their compliance with European...
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Post-Quantum Cryptography
Cryptographers seek algorithms quantum computers cannot break.
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Computational Linguistics Finds Its Voice
Advances in artificial intelligence permit computers to converse with humans in seemingly realistic ways.
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Can AI Demonstrate Creativity?
When fed a sufficient amount of training data, artificial intelligence techniques can be used to generate new ideas in several different ways. Is that creativity...
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Researchers Fix Pandemic Prediction Model, Improving Its Accuracy
North Carolina State University's Mohammad Farazmand and Konstantinos Mamis corrected a flaw in a popular pandemic model, improving the accuracy of its predictions...
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Is It Human or AI? Tools Help Spot the Bots
Researchers are developing tools that can identify content created by bots like OpenAI's ChatGPT, which generates text that can be difficult to distinguish from...
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Qubits Are at the Heart of Quantum Computing. They're Also Its Greatest Weakness
Quantum states are incredibly delicate and easily destroyed. The perfect solution could lie in imperfect crystals.
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3D Printing Reaches New Heights with Two-Story Home
A massive three-dimensional printer is being used to build what is thought to be the first 3D-printed two-story home in the U.S.
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Turning Robots into Skilled Waiters
Researchers at Germany's Technical University of Munich (TUM) adopted the pendulum's underlying mathematics to develop a model that could improve robots' drinks...
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Global IT Spending Decreased in 2022
The devices segment of Gartner's spending forecast is projected to fall 5.1% this year to roughly $685 billion, after dropping more than 10% in 2022.
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Quantum Computing Has a Noise Problem
Today's devices can be thrown off by the slightest environmental interference. Algorithmiq is developing ways to counteract this and harness quantum's power.
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Mining the Margins to Save Lives
Using artificial intelligence to ensure fewer donated kidneys are discarded, and that food donations make it to those in need via what is fast becoming an Internet...
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