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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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Microsoft and Cornell Tech Announce New Partnership
Microsoft is partnering with the Cornell Tech-based Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts.
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How to Make Robots That We Can Trust
The design of trustworthy autonomous systems must entail consideration of the ability to explain decisions and recourse options when things go awry.
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How Apple Finally Made Siri Sound More Human
The first time Alex Acero saw Her, he watched it like a normal person.
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Facebook AI Learns Human Reactions After Watching Hours of Skype
There's something not quite right about humanoid robots.
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Fear of Robots Taking Jobs Spurs a Bold Idea: Guaranteed Pay
Driverless trucks. Factory robots. Delivery drones. Virtual personal assistants.
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Artificial Intelligence Cyberattacks Are Coming--but What Does That Mean?
Artificial intelligence could play a key role in the next major cyberattack.
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Most Tv Computer Scientists Are Still White Men. Google Wants to Change That
Google is urging Hollywood to diversify the gender and ethnicity of computer scientists appearing on TV and film.
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Neuroscientist Harnesses the Power of Virtual Reality to nlock the Mysteries of Memory
Researchers are using virtual reality to study how a person's brain encodes and retrieves memories while they explore a new virtual environment.
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Google's New Street View Cameras Will Help Algorithms Index the Real World
Steve Silverman helped build cameras for two NASA rovers that went to Mars.
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The Smartphone's Future: It's All About the Camera
We all know the drill. For the last decade, smartphones have gotten thinner and faster and thinner and faster and, well, you get the picture.
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Facebook AI Learns Human Reactions After Watching Hours of Skype
Researchers at Facebook's Artificial Intelligence lab have developed an expressive animated bot controlled by an artificially intelligent algorithm trained on hundreds...
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Can AI Solve Poverty?
Researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to gain insights into factors that lead to poverty and other social problems.
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What the Industrial Revolution Really Tells S About the Future of Automation and Work
The Industrial Revolution led to centuries of social and economic upheaval. Are economists telling us not to worry about workplace automation because things will...
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Ornl Researchers Turn to Deep Learning to Solve Science's Big Data Problem
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received a $2-million grant to study the potential of machine learning to revolutionize scientific data analysis...
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Professor, Experts Aim to Improve Emergency Response
Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a system to improve the transmission of critical information for emergency responders.
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Blossom: A Handmade Approach to Social Robotics From Cornell and Google
Blossom is a social robot built from natural materials like cotton and wool.
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Humans, Cover Your Mouths: Lip Reading Bots in the Wild
A new algorithm has outperformed professional human lip readers.
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These Robots Are sing Static Electricity to Make Nikes
The most labor intensive part of putting together a pair of Nikes is assembling the "upper"—the flexible part of the shoe that sits on top of your foot.
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How We Won Gold in the Cyborg Olympics' Brain Race
In October 2016, inside a sold-out arena in Zurich, a man named Numa Poujouly steered his wheelchair up to the central podium.
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