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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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Artificial Intelligence Helps Scientists Map Behavior in the Fruit Fly Brain
Scientists have used artificial intelligence technology to make 100 billion annotations of behavior from 400,000 fruit flies.
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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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How AI Helped the FCC Auction Off $19-Billion Worth of Radio Spectrum
Researchers in March organized a $19-billion auction of 84 megahertz of radio spectrum using artificial intelligence.
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Government Researchers Hope to Teach New Robots Some of the Old Tricks of Etiquette
Researchers are working to enable robots to learn human etiquette.
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Google Researchers Are Teaching Their AI to Build Its Own, More Powerful AI
Google has unveiled a new approach to machine learning in which neural networks are used to build better neural networks.
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Artificial Intelligence Prevails at Predicting Supreme Court Decisions
A study led by the Illinois Institute of Technology suggests artificial intelligence can outperform legal scholars in the prediction of U.S. Supreme Court rulings...
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Computer Diagnoses Cataracts as Well as Eye Doctors Can
Scientists at Sun Yat-Sen University in China are using a new artificial neural network to recognize and diagnose congenital cataracts as accurately as eye doctors...
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Robotic Tutors For Primary School Children
Researchers in Spain have developed an integrated computational architecture for use with software applications in schools.
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Your Next Nurse Could Be a Robot
Researchers from Italy's Polytechnic University of Milan led an international team that trained a robot to imitate natural human actions.
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Machine Learning Techniques Enable Models From Partial Image Data
Researchers say they have developed a method to automatically generate complete three-dimensional building models of a given area by using partial images.
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Machines v. Hackers: Cybersecurity's Artificial Intelligence Future
Experts predict machines will perform increasingly complex cybersecurity operations over time, reducing the need for humans and facilitating a paradigm shift in...
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Robots Could Hack Turing Test By Keeping Silent
The Turing test, the quintessential evaluation designed to determine if something is a computer or a human, may have a fatal flaw, new research suggests.
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This Sculpture Was Designed and 3-D Printed By an AI Artist
Information Technology University of Copenhagen professor Joel Lehman and colleagues have created an artificial intelligence that can design and generate physical...
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Fooling the Machine
A growing field of research suggests artificial intelligence can easily be fooled, as it can provide correct answers without truly understanding information.
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Robot Learning Companion Offers Custom-Tailored Tutoring
Researchers from Tel Aviv University and MIT have developed a socially assistive robot that can serve as a one-to-one peer for learning in the classroom or for...
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Conversing With Computers
University of Southern California researchers are developing high-speed language-processing systems that rival the speed and efficiency of human speakers.
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How Someday Robots May Run to the Rescue--Literally
A research team in Ann Arbor, MI, is working to revolutionize walking robot control algorithms.
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How Sensorimotor Intelligence May Develop
The emergence of self-directed behavior in robots can be grounded in the synaptic plasticity of their nervous systems, according to a new study.
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