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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Researchers Land $3 Million to Build Cyberattack Defenses
Researchers at Clemson University are part of a team of computer experts from five universities to develop new defenses to protect data from computer hacking.
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How the Brain Recognizes What the Eye Sees
Salk Institute researchers have analyzed how neurons in the V2 section of the brain respond to natural scenes.
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3 Principles For Creating Safer AI
How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover?
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Deepmind Shows AI Has Trouble Seeing Homer Simpson's Actions
DeepMind has created a YouTube dataset of 300,000 video clips and 400 human action classes to train its deep-learning algorithms to better identify human activities...
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Self-Learning Robot Hands
Researchers at Bielefeld University in Germany have developed robot hands that can learn to grasp objects without knowing their characteristics.
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Inspecting Algorithms For Bias
Courts, banks, and other institutions are using automated data analysis systems to make decisions about your life. Let's not leave it up to the algorithm makers...
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The Billion Dollar War Over Maps
During a test drive near Ford's Michigan headquarters, the team noticed something strange with its self-driving cars.
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q and Partners Taking Computing Out of This World
Researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia are developing next-generation computers for aerospace applications in partnership with Lockheed Martin...
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Robot Dog Has an Artificial Woof That Sounds Like the Real Thing
Researchers say they have developed a vocalization synthesizer that generates biologically fitting sounds for land mammals of any size.
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AI 'good For the World'...says Ultra-Lifelike Robot
A lifelike robot named Sophia argued at a United Nations-hosted conference in Switzerland this week that artificial intelligence is ultimately beneficial to mankind...
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Robot Cars Can't Count on S in an Emergency
Many automotive technologists are skeptical that autonomous cars will be able to trust humans in emergency situations.
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AI Gets So-So Grade in Chinese niversity Entrance Exam
An artificial intelligence machine completed the math section of China's annual university entrance exam faster than human students, but with a below-average grade...
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If Google Teaches an AI to Draw, Will That Help It Think?
Imagine someone told you to draw a pig and a truck.
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Nasa Selects Three Aeronautics Teams to Explore 'ambitious' Ideas
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has selected three teams of researchers to pursue ideas for creating components of Unmanned Aircraft Systems...
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App Uses Smartphone Compass to Prevent Voice Hacking
Researchers at the University at Buffalo have developed a smartphone application designed to stop voice hacking.
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Robots Will Be More seful If They Are Made to Lack Confidence
University of California, Berkeley researchers are developing an artificial intelligence system that seeks and accepts human oversight.
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Computer-Aided Imaging Technique Could Reduce Risk of Second Breast Cancer Surgery
A new computer-aided diagnostic technique combines imaging with artificial intelligence to detect the difference between cancerous and benign cells.
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A Stepping Stone to Stem?
Engineering technology courses at community colleges are serving as a pathway to STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) degrees and jobs.
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