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Deepmind AI Teaches Itself About the World By Watching Videos
To an untrained AI, the world is a blur of confusing data streams.
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We Could Build a Galactic Internet but It May Take 300,000 Years
If there are advanced alien civilizations in the Milky Way, we ought to be thinking about how to say hello to our neighbours.
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Robot Physical Therapist Helps People Walk Again After a Stroke
A new smart harness uses artificial intelligence to help people regain their mobility following certain neurological injuries.
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AI Coach Will Train Hopeless Chatbots to Pass the Turing Test
"I can't define obscenity, but I know it when I see it." US Justice Potter Stewart's famous turn of phrase could also be an apt description of the Turing test,...
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Sun's Gravity Could Power Interstellar Video Streaming
Need to send a message across interstellar space? Use the sun for a signal boost. A new proposal suggests that the sun's gravity could be used to amplify signals...
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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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Synthetic Iris Could Let Cameras React to Light Like Our Eyes Do
An artificial iris can open and close in response to sunlight without any other outside control, just like the ones in your eyes.
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Deepmind Now Learns from Human Preferences, Just Like a Toddler
AI systems continue to get increasingly powerful, but still need far too much hand-holding by their human masters. New research from DeepMind and OpenAI suggests...
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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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Deepmind's Neural Network Teaches AI to Reason About the World
The world is a confusing place, especially for an AI.
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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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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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Deep Learning Tells Giraffes From Gazelles in the Serengeti
Researchers used a database of 3.2 million photos to train a deep-learning system to distinguish between 48 animal species.
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New Computer Vision Challenge Wants to Teach Robots to See in 3D
The progress made in training algorithms to recognize images via the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge has prompted its 2018 replacement with the...
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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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Atomic Clocks Make Best Measurement Yet of Relativity of Time
Our most accurate clocks are probing a key tenet of Einstein's theory of relativity: the idea that time isn't absolute.
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