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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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DeepMind Can Now Beat s at Multiplayer Games, Too
Researchers have developed automated "agents" that display humanlike behavior when playing in capture-the-flag mode in the Quake III multiplayer computer game. ...
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Hospital System ses AI to Predict Deadly Condition
The Montefiore Health System and its affiliated medical school in New York are employing artificial intelligence to predict a common respiratory malady among patients...
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OECD Members, Including .S., Back Guiding Principles to Make AI Safer
More than 40 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are supporting principles to improve the transparency of artificial intelligence...
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Bringing Human-Like Reasoning to Driverless Car Navigation
A new system could enable autonomous vehicles to navigate complex environments by checking a basic global positioning system-like map and employing video feeds....
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'Mona Lisa' Comes to Life in Computer-Generated 'Living Portrait'
Researchers have created artificial intelligence-animated portraits of the Mona Lisa as digitally modified images or "deepfakes."
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Robots Conduct Daily Health Inspections of Schoolchildren in China
More than 2,000 preschools in China are using a robot to check the health status of students each day before they enter the classroom.
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Framework Improves 'Continual Learning' for AI
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new framework for deep neural networks that allows artificial intelligence systems to better learn...
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MIT and .S. Air Force Sign Agreement to Launch AI Accelerator
MIT and the U.S. Air Force have signed an agreement to launch a new program designed to make fundamental advances in artificial intelligence that could improve...
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New Research Accurately Predicts Australian Wheat Harvests Months in Advance
A U.S. National Science Foundation-funded project found machine learning techniques could anticipate Australian wheat yields two months before the end of the growing...
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Big Data Helps Identify Better Way to Research Breast Cancer's Spread
Researchers at Michigan State University are analyzing big data to determine better research models to fight the spread of breast cancer and test potential drugs...
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Neural Net Worth
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun this month will receive the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made...
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Lifelong Learning in Artificial Neural Networks
New methods enable systems to rapidly, continuously adapt.
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Researchers Find Patterns Associated with Extreme Floods
Researchers used a machine-learning based analysis of extreme floods in the U.S. to learn that these events are associated with four types of atmospheric patterns...
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Waymo and Lyft Partner to Scale Self-Driving Robotaxi Service in Phoenix
Technology developer Waymo and ride-hailing company Lyft have partnered to deploy driverless vehicles for Lyft's robotaxi service in Phoenix, AZ.
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Robots Thrive in the Forest on Jobs Humans Find Too Boring
Sweden's forest companies are embracing technology to cut costs and boost profits, while freeing employees from mundane tasks.
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San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Technology
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has banned the use of facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes by police and other agencies in the city.
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Scientists in China Develop ltra-Long Range AI Camera
Researchers in China have developed camera technology that can render human sized-subjects from up to 28 miles away.
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Hummingbird Robot Flies, Hovers Like Real Thing
Purdue University researchers have built robot hummingbirds that learn to fly and hover like their real-world counterparts, using algorithms and computer simulation...
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AI Accelerates Innovation
Yet patent attorneys fear the darker consequences of artificial intelligence.
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