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Artificial Musician Builds New Melodies Without Music Theory
A new deep-learning algorithm can generate melodies that imitate a given style of music.
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To End Distracted Driving, Mit Figures Out How People Really Drive
Researchers are producing accurate models of people's behavior in cars, in order to shape that behavior to preserve safety.
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Two Giants of AI Team p to Head Off the Robot Apocalypse
There's nothing new about worrying that superintelligent machines may endanger humanity, but the idea has lately become hard to avoid.
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Peering Inside an Ai's Brain Will Help S Trust Its Decisions
Oi, AI—What do you think you're looking at? Understanding why machine learning algorithms can be tricked into seeing things that aren't there is becoming more important...
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As Elites Switch to Texting, Watchdogs Fear Loss of Transparency
In a bygone analog era, lawmakers and corporate chiefs traveled great distances to swap secrets, to the smoke-filled back rooms of the World Economic Forum in Davos...
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Thousands of Rome's Historical Images Digitized With Help of Stanford Researchers
Researchers at Stanford University have contributed to the creation of a digital visual archive charting Rome's evolution over the centuries.
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Eu Developing Robot Badgers For nderground Excavation
The European Union is underwriting the roBot for Autonomous unDerGround trenchless opERations, mapping, and navigation (BADGER) project.
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Tracking Humans in 3D With Off-the-Shelf Webcams
VNect is a new system for capturing human movements digitally in three dimensions in real time using a single video camera.
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Making Waves
Researchers have introduced a novel representation of waves that improves computational efficiency by at least an order of magnitude.
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Practical Parallelism
Researchers have developed a system called Fractal that enables up to 88-fold acceleration in a parallelism strategy known as speculative execution.
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How AI Detectives Are Cracking Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
Loosely modeled after the brain, deep neural networks are spurring innovation across science.
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Robocalypse Now? Central Bankers Argue Whether Automation Will Kill Jobs
The rise of robots has long been a topic for sci-fi best sellers and video games and, as of this week, a threat officially taken seriously by central bankers.
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Du Physicists Put New Spin on Computer Technology
Researchers at the University of Denver have demonstrated spin transport through a synthetic material that is amorphous, or non-ordered, both magnetically and structurally...
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c Santa Cruz Launches New Data Science Research Center
The University of California, Santa Cruz has launched a new data science research center that provides a platform for collaboration between industry and academia...
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AI Will Prepare Robots For the nknown
Researchers suggest artificial intelligence could greatly benefit robotic exploratory spacecraft by giving them autonomy.
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How Video Games Helped Give S the Self-Driving Car
Self-driving cars. They're the future of transportation—and they're getting smarter all the time.
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Conference Organizers Say .s. Travel Ban Not A Disaster – Yet
Travel restrictions appear to have had minimal impact on conference attendance so far.
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By Teaching Computers to Track Asteroids, w Scientists May Save the Earth
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) are participating in a project to track asteroids so collisions with Earth can be predicted and averted.
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Darpa's Ex-Leader's Speculative Dream of Mind-Melding Empathy
The former head of DARPA, Arati Prabhakar, has a dream. It's a civilian utopian neuroscience dream that's kind of the inverse of the scenarios that the far-out...
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