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The Pentagon Is Bolstering Its AI Systems—by Hacking Itself
A new "red team" will try to anticipate and thwart attacks on machine learning programs.
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How AI Is Fighting Wildfires
The University of California, San Diego's Ilkay Altintas and colleagues have spent eight years helping fire managers and scientists combat wildfires through the...
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Joke-Cracking Chatbots Boost Learning Levels
The role of humor in training, and conversing with, chatbots.
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Bourdain Documentary's Use of A.I. to Mimic Voice Draws Questions
The documentary "Roadrunner" by Morgan Neville uses 45 seconds of a voice that sounds like Bourdain, generated with artificial intelligence. Is it ethical?
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Resetting Your IoT Device Before Reselling It Isn't Enough, Researchers Find
A new study suggests Amazon's recommendation that users factory reset their Internet of Things devices to erase personal information before reselling them may not...
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WHO Releases AI Guidelines for Health
A new report from the World Health Organization offers guidance for the ethical use of artificial intelligence in the health sector.
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Singapore Launching $50 Million Program to Advance Research on AI, Cybersecurity
Singapore intends to invest $50 million in research on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity for next-generation communications infrastructures.
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UOC Team Develops Neural Network to Identify Tiger Mosquitoes
A deep neural network can learn to identify tiger mosquitoes using a large set of images captured on mobile phones and uploaded to the Mosquito Alert platform by...
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U.S. Says Humans Will Always Be In Control of AI Weapons, but the Age of Autonomous War is Already Here
The Pentagon says a ban on AI weapons isn't necessary, But missiles, guns and drones that think for themselves already kill people in combat, and have been for...
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AI's Role in Debugging Code Expected to Grow
Technology companies are developing artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools to debug code as software maintenance becomes ever more challenging.
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Meet the Scientist Teaching AI to Police Human Speech
Facebook and Google have engineered artificial intelligence systems capable of understanding dozens of languages through the efforts of scientists like Alexis Conneau...
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MIT Robot Could Help People with Limited Mobility Dress Themselves
Researchers designed an algorithm to help a robot efficiently dress a human, theoretically ensuring human safety by reasoning about the human model's uncertainty...
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A Global Smart-City Competition Highlights China's Rise in AI
Chinese entrants swept all five categories, featuring technologies to improve civic life. But the advances could also be tools for surveillance.
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Technion Study Finds Warmth of AI Systems More Important Than Capability
Researchers found that potential users of artificial intelligence systems consider such systems’ “warmth” more important than capability and competence.
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We Tested AI Interview Tools. Here's What We Found.
One gave our candidate a high score for English proficiency when she spoke only in German.
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Using AI to Drill Down in Physics
Artificial intelligence can give a boost to particle physics.
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Using AI to Predict 3D Printing Processes
Engineers have developed physics-informed neural networking artificial intelligence to predict the performance of three-dimensionally-printed objects.
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AI Learns to Predict Human Behavior From Videos
A computer vision algorithm developed by Columbia Engineering researchers can intuitively predict human interactions and body language in video.
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Robots Can Make Music, but Can They Sing?
At an international competition called the A.I. Song Contest, tracks exploring the technology as a tool for music making revealed the potential — and the limitations...
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