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Deepmind's Neural Network Teaches AI to Reason About the World
Google's DeepMind has developed a neural network that gives computers the ability to understand how different objects are related to each other.
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Smart Jacket and Vr Headset Let You Pilot a Drone With Your Body
Researchers say they have created a virtual reality headset and jacket system that enables operators to control a drone using only their body movement.
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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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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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AI Will Be Able to Beat S at Everything By 2060, Say Experts
There is a 50% chance that machines will outperform humans in all tasks within 45 years, according to a survey of 352 artificial intelligence (AI) researchers conducted...
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Waltzing Robot Teaches Beginners How to Dance Like a Pro
Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have developed a robotic dance instructor.
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Inquisitive Bot Asks Questions to Test Your Understanding
Researchers say they have developed an artificial intelligence system that has learned to ask questions of its own.
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Synthetic Humans Help Computers Understand How Real People Act
Researchers are working to help computers understand human behavior by feeding them videos and images of computer-generated bodies in motion
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Synthetic Humans Help Computers Understand How Real People Act
We are difficult for computers to understand.
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Bias Test to Prevent Algorithms Discriminating nfairly
Researchers are developing a framework to identify and eliminate algorithmic bias.
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Virtual Lemonade Sends Color and Taste to a Glass of Water
Researchers say they have developed a system that can digitally transmit the color and sourness of a glass of lemonade to a tumbler of water.
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Robot Eavesdrops on Men and Women to See How Much They Talk
Researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have developed a robotic head that analyzes how people interact with each other.
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AI Beats Professional Players at Super Smash Bros. Video Game
Researchers trained an artificial intelligence system to play Nintendo's "Super Smash Bros. Melee" using deep-learning algorithms, and then challenged and defeated...
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Tiny 3D-Printed Camera Lens Could Give Drones Vision Like Ours
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart in Germany have created a camera that combines four three-dimensionally-printed lenses to mimic natural vision.
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Software Helps Musicians Stop Slouching By Ruining Their Music
New software identifies when musicians' posture is poor and gives them an audible notification.
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Voice-Checking Device Stops Hackers Hijacking Your Siri or Alexa
A wearable device under development at the University of Michigan provides continuous authentication for voice assistants such as Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa...
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Blind People 'see' Microscope Images Using Touch-Feedback Device
Purdue University researchers have developed a system that uses a haptic device to let people interpret visual information using their hands.
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