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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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Brain-Like Network Uses Disorder to Detect Order
Researchers have developed a brain-inspired disordered network for detecting ordered patterns, which uses "hopping conduction" to reach solutions without predesigned...
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U.K. Police Use of Facial Recognition Tests Public's Tolerance
The testing of facial recognition technology by police in the U.K. has provoked outrage.
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The Way You Dance is Unique, and Computers Can Tell It's You
Researchers at Finland’s University of Jyvaskyla have taught computers to identify individuals by their dance style.
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AI Can Do Great Things—if It Doesn't Burn the Planet
The computing power required for AI landmarks, such as recognizing images and defeating humans at Go, increased 300,000-fold from 2012 to 2018.
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Study Finds AI Viable Tool to Detect Changes in Patients' Mental Health
A study found machine learning artificial intelligence is as accurate as physicians in detecting changes in clinical states from patients' speech.
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Are Your Students Bored? This AI Could Tell You
Researchers have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that analyzes students' emotions to measure their engagement level in a class.
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How to Beat South Korea's AI Hiring Bots and Land a Job
Major South Korean companies are using artificial intelligence (AI) to screen job applicants, giving rise to an industry to help job-seekers beat these systems. ...
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Samsung's Neon 'Artificial Humans' Look Like Super-Realistic Video Chatbots
At CES 2020, Samsung's STAR Labs research group unveiled Neon, a simulated human assistant.
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Neural Networks Can Drive Virtual Racecars Without Learning
A study found artificial neural networks can evolve to perform tasks without learning.
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Researchers: Are We on the Cusp of an 'AI Winter'?
There are signs that the hype over artificial intelligence might be about to start cooling off.
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AI Comes to the Operating Room
Surgeons are utilizing artificial intelligence and new imaging methods to diagnose brain tumors faster than pathologists, and with similar accuracy.
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White House Proposes Guidelines for Regulating Use of AI
The Trump administration is proposing new federal rules for regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the private sector.
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Baidu Has Trick for Teaching AI the Meaning of Language
Chinese technology company Baidu outperformed Microsoft and Google in the General Language Understanding Evaluation, a benchmark for artificial intelligence comprehension...
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Donald Knuth on Algorithms, Complexity, and The Art of Computer Programming
Computer scientist Donald Knuth discusses Alan Turing, neural networks, machine learning, and other topics from ant colonies and human cognition.
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Roomba Mistaken For a Burglar by Spooked Homeowners
Police called to investigate possible home intruders found a hard-working robotic vacuum instead.
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Lasers Learn to Accurately Spot Space Junk
Chinese researchers have developed a set of algorithms that significantly improves the accuracy of detecting space junk in earth's orbit.
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Tool Uses AI to Flag Fake News for Media Fact-Checkers
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that could help social media networks and news organizations screen out fake news.
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Will Deepfakes Do Deep Damage?
The ability to produce fake videos that appear amazingly real is here. Researchers are now developing ways to detect and prevent them.
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Don’t Trust AI Until We Build Systems That Earn Trust
Progress in artificial intelligence belies a lack of transparency that is vital for its adoption, says Gary Marcus, coauthor of "Rebooting AI"
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