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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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How Old is Your Brain?
Machine learning can help assess the physical age of one’s brain.
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AI Shakes Up the Seismology World
Artificial intelligence is reshaping our understanding of earthquakes and other seismological events
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Algorithm Sharpens Focus of Most Powerful Microscopes
Researchers have developed an algorithm to enhance the resolution and accuracy of the world's most powerful microscopes.
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AI Could Help Find Cheaper, Smarter Ways to Raise Fish
Artificial intelligence researchers at Norwegian telecommunications carrier Telenor's Norwegian Open AI Lab are testing AI models to reduce costs and increase efficiency...
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The Future of the Supply Chain
Experts agree supplies increasingly will be near-sourced.
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AI Helping Scientists Discover Fresh Craters on Mars
A machine learning tool is helping to identify newly made craters on the surface of Mars.
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Australia's Report on Agtech Confirms Technology Can Lead to Fertile Future
A new report says emerging technologies could enhance the productivity, diversity, and profitability of Australia's agricultural sector.
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Flawed Algorithm Used to Determine U.K. Welfare Payments Is 'Pushing People Into Poverty'
Human Rights Watch warns a flawed algorithm for calculating monthly social security benefits in Britain is causing hunger, debt, and psychological distress.
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AI Can Detect Covid-19 in the Lungs Like a Virtual Physician, Study Shows
Researchers developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that is almost as accurate as a physician in diagnosing Covid-19 in the lungs and distinguishing Covid...
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In Facial Recognition Challenge, Top-Ranking Algorithms Show Bias Against Black Women
Facial recognition algorithms have higher false-positive and lower false-negative rates for Black women, eyeglass wearers, and young children.
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IST Researchers Exploit Vulnerabilities of AI-Powered Game Bots
A new algorithm trains an adversarial bot to automatically identify and exploit the weaknesses of master game bots trained by deep reinforcement learning algorithms...
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Prepare Your Meal Together with a Robot
Julie Shah and her team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology build robots that can learn from demonstration, understand humans, and truly collaborate.
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Amsterdam, Helsinki Launch Algorithm Registries to Bring Transparency to Public AI Deployments
The cities of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Helsinki, Finland, have launched beta versions of artificial intelligence registries.
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AI 'Resurrects' 54 Roman Emperors, in Stunningly Lifelike Images
An artist used machine learning to create the photorealistic portraits.
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Your Favorite AI Language Tool is Toxic
A new research paper by the Allen Institute for AI says pretrained language models "are prone to generating racist, sexist, or otherwise toxic language, which...
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AI Camera Can Tell What Surfaces Feel Like with Just a Glance
Rutgers University researchers have trained a camera-linked artificial intelligence to read the tactile properties of an object when presented with a photograph...
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Algorithm Spots COVID-19 Cases from Eye Images: Preprint
A small study shows artificial intelligence can pick out individuals with coronavirus infections, but ophthalmologists and AI experts say the approach is far from...
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These Weird, Unsettling Photos Show That AI is Getting Smarter
Models are learning how to generate images from captions, a sign that they're getting better at understanding our world.
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Trump Administration Signs AI R&D Agreement With the U.K.
The Trump administration announced a research and development agreement on artificial intelligence with the U.K., designed to advance cooperation on development...
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