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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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AI Identifies 50 New Planets From Old NASA Data
Machine learning artificial intelligence found 50 new planets by mining old data from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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ML Model Finds SARS-COV-2 Growing More Infectious
Researchers have developed a novel machine-learning model that suggests SAR-CoV-2 has become more infectious due to genome mutations.
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F-16 Pilot Took on AI in a Dogfight. Here's Who Won
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently hosted virtual "AlphaDogFight Trials," in which an artificial intelligence program easily beat a U.S. Air...
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Japanese Town to Test Autonomous Amphibious Bus
The Japanese town of Naganohara will test a consortium's autonomous amphibious bus in a trial beginning in December and running through March 2021.
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Argonne Scientists Use AI to Strengthen Power Grid Resiliency
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have created a new artificial intelligence technique that can help operators understand...
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Machines can Spot Mental Health Issues—If you Hand Over your Personal Data
Digital diagnosis could transform psychiatry by mining your most intimate data for clues. But is the privacy cost worth it?
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Predicting the Lifespan of an App
Northwestern Polytechnical University researchers have developed a model for predicting the lifespan of an app.
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Visa Unveils More Powerful AI Tool That Approves or Denies Card Transactions
The deep-learning application makes more accurate decisions on behalf of banks experiencing network disruptions, Visa says.
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A Dogfight Renews Concerns About AI's Lethal Potential
Alphabet's DeepMind pioneered reinforcement learning. A California company used it to create an algorithm that defeated an F-16 pilot in a simulation.
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White House Plans to Boost AI, Quantum Funding by 30%
The Trump administration has proposed a 30% increase in spending in the 2021 U.S. nondefense budget for artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum information science...
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AI Researchers Devise Cheap Data Collection Method to Scale Training Robots
Researchers have created a low-cost method of training robots, in an effort to scale the collection of training data and enable widespread adoption.
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AI-Based Traffic Management Gets Green Light
The NoTraffic autonomous traffic management company has deployed an artificial intelligence-driven traffic management system in Phoenix, AZ.
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It's Alive!
Scientists and engineers cross the reality gap, transferring simulated evolution into real machines.
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AI on Edge
Shifting artificial intelligence to the "edge" of the network could transform computing . . . and everyday life.
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For Quick Coronavirus Testing, Israel Turns to a Clever Algorithm
Inspired by a mother's question, the new method will be introduced across Israel this fall, just in time for flu season, and could be coming soon to the U.S.
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Facebook AI, NYU Langone Create Accurate MRIs with Less Time and Data
Researchers at Facebook Inc. and NYU Langone Health say that a two-year experiment demonstrates how artificial intelligence can produce a fourfold increase in the...
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Deep Learning on Cell Signaling Networks Establishes Interpretable AI for Single-Cell Biology
Researchers at the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have created knowledge-primed neural networks which utilize signaling...
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Millions Have Lost Jobs in the Pandemic – Robots and AI Are Replacing Them
The pandemic has prompted more companies to replace workers with robots and artificial intelligence to reduce the spread of Covid-19 in the workplace and lower...
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AI In the ICU
Artificial intelligence can help doctors better understand what is happening to (and in) their patients when it matters most.
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