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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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Geometric Deep Learning Advances Data Science
Researchers are pushing beyond the limitations of convolutional neural networks using geometric deep learning techniques.
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Fugaku Takes the Lead
Japan tops the Top500 supercomputer rankings, for the moment.
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In a First, Air Force Uses Artificial Intelligence Aboard Military Jet
No weapons were involved, and the plane was steered by a pilot.
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AI Can Predict Twitter Users Likely to Spread Disinformation Before They Do It
Artificial intelligence predicted the likelihood of Twitter users spreading disinformation, using natural language processing techniques to analyze about 1 million...
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Scientists Digitally Rebuilt Dinosaur's Brain, Made Some Surprising Discoveries
A dinosaur's brain reconstructed through advanced imaging and three-dimensional modeling suggests the sauropod may have been bipedal and occasionally carnivorous...
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Deere's Farm Version of Facial Recognition Coming to Fields in 2021
Agriculture giant Deere & Co. plans to roll out a system next summer that combines machine vision and machine learning to improve the identification of individual...
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8 Leading Women In The Field Of AI
There are many brilliant women at the forefront of artificial intelligence today.
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This Robot Can Rap—Really
A Georgia Institute of Technology music technologist modified an improvisational musical robot called Shimon to create lyrics and perform rap in real time.
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AI Needs to Face Up to its Invisible-worker Problem
Machine-learning models are trained by low-paid online gig workers. They're not going away—but we can change the way they work, says Saiph Savage.
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Smarter Traffic Lights, Calmer Commuters
Advances in technology may come to a corner near you, easing traffic and possibly helping the environment.
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Researchers Find Even 'Fair' Hiring Algorithms Can Be Biased
Researchers at Harvard University and Germany's Technische Universität Berlin analyzing how "fair" ranking algorithms affect gender uncovered inconsistent ranking...
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Google's AI Can Keep Loon Balloons Flying for Over 300 Days in a Row
An artificially intelligent pilot can keep huge stratospheric balloons aloft in a fixed position for hundreds of days to operate as floating cell towers for remote...
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Google Reveals Major Hidden Weakness In Machine Learning
Deep learning algorithms are prone to a previously unknown problem, say a team of computer scientists at Google.
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Voice Assistant Recordings Could Reveal What Someone Nearby Is Typing
A machine learning system can be used with voice assistants to detect typing on touchscreens nearby, using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to determine what...
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Robot Hands One Step Closer to Human, Thanks to WMG AI Algorithms
Artificial intelligence algorithms enable the Shadow Robot Dexterous Hand to manipulate objects like humans do.
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Does AI in Healthcare Need More Emotion?
Emotion artificial intelligence applications in healthcare are rare, with many scientists skeptical of the technology's utility.
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How Humans Use Objects in Novel Ways to Solve Problems
Researchers have developed a cognitive model that learns to use objects in novel ways to solve problems, like humans do.
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Exploring 'Data Storytelling'
Conversational interfaces provide spoken responses to queries of business databases.
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