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How Computers Can Teach Themselves to Recognize Cats
In June 2012, a network of 16,000 computers trained itself to recognize a cat by looking at 10 million images from YouTube videos. Today, the technique is used...
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Could a Computer Predict the Next Pandemic?
In a new study, researchers used machine learning to make accurate forecasts of whether animals carry dangerous pathogens.
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Rise of the Fembots: Why Artificial Intelligence Is Often Female
A disproportionate percentage of artificial intelligence systems have female personas, and researchers have struggled to determine why this phenomenon occurs.
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Artificial Intelligence Bests Humans at Classic Arcade Games
A recent article recounts how a team of artificial intelligence researchers trained a computer to play, and in some cases beat, human players in several arcade...
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Programming Safety Into Self-Driving Cars
University of Massachusetts, Amherst professor Shlomo Zilberstein has been investigating ways of helping semi-autonomous systems to better make decisions.
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This Computer Knows When to Hold 'em, Knows When to Fold 'em
Card sharks, beware. A new program cannot be beaten at a variety of poker called heads-up limit Texas Hold 'em—at least in a human lifetime—a team of computer scientists...
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Firmer Footing For Robots With Smart Walking Sticks
The SupraPed robotic platform uses "smart staffs" inspired by walking sticks to better balance and move over uneven terrain.
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Investments Boost Neurotechnology Career Prospects
Mark Cembrowski was a graduate student in applied mathematics with a taste for neurobiology at Northwestern University when he discovered a way to marry his two...
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World Cup Kickoff Looms For Demo of Brain-Controlled Machine
During the World Cup next week, there may be 1 minute during the opening ceremony when the boisterous stadium crowd in São Paulo falls silent: when a paraplegic...
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.
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Artificial Brains Learn to Adapt
Researchers are studying a new type of spiking neural network that more closely mimics the behavioral learning processes of mammalian brains.
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New Results Send Mars Rover on a Quest For Ancient Life
When the Curiosity rover landed in Gale crater 16 months ago, its goal was to find a place on Mars that was habitable 4 billion years ago.
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Quantum Computers Check Each Other’s Work
A new strategy for verifying the solutions of quantum computers relies on a blind quantum computing technique.
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Artificial Intellience in Mental Healthcare
The mental healthcare field is seeking to use artificial intelligent agents to provide training, consultation, and treatment services.
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How Big Data Helps Big Cities
June 1 marked the first National Day of Civic Hacking, during which cities across the United States invited programmers to come together and improve local government...
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How Evolution May Help Build Better Robots
In the real world, animals have evolved the ability to get from point A to B by galloping, crawling, and jumping. Now, robots in the virtual world have accomplished...
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Intelligent Robots Will Overtake Humans By 2100, Experts Say
Some computer scientists believe the singularity at which artificial intelligence can match and overtake human intelligence could take place in only 16 years.
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Intelligent Robots Will Overtake Humans By 2100, Experts Say
Are you prepared to meet your robot overlords?
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Nsf-Funded Superhero Supercomputer Helps Battle Autism
Researchers are using the Gordon supercomputer to develop techniques that can be used to guide the development of treatments for mental disorders.
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