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Humans Are Still Better Than AI at Starcraft--For Now
Professional player Song Byung-gu won a recent "StarCraft" tournament in South Korea, beating four artificial intelligence programs in less than 30 minutes.
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Building Tomorrow's Robots
When Brandon Araki arrived at MIT in 2015 as a master's candidate in mechanical engineering, he brought along the picobug, a tiny robot that can fly, crawl, and...
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How We Feel About Robots That Feel
Octavia, a humanoid robot designed to fight fires on Navy ships, has mastered an impressive range of facial expressions.
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Andrew Ng Has a Chatbot That Can Help With Depression
Stanford University professor Andrew Ng is supporting the development of a Facebook chatbot to offer interactive cognitive behavior therapy to people suffering...
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Alphago Zero Shows Machines Can Become Superhuman Without Any Help
DeepMind's upgrade to the AlphaGo algorithm, AlphaGo Zero, beat its predecessor in a 100-game Go match, acquiring skills by playing millions of games against itself...
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AI Algorithms Are Starting to Teach AI Algorithms
Artificial intelligence researchers and companies are applying machine learning to automate the more complicated aspects of AI algorithm development.
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Now There's an Iq Test For Siri and Friends
Researchers used an intelligence test they developed to rank intelligent assistants such as Google Assistant and Siri on the same scale used for humans.
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Scientists Can Read a Bird's Brain and Predict Its Next Song
Researchers have built a brain-to-tweet interface that predicts the song a finch is going to sing a fraction of a second before it does so.
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Put Humans at the Center of AI
Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab director Fei-Fei Li advocates for more human-centered AI and the benefits it can yield.
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Inside the Moonshot Effort to Finally Figure Out the Brain
"Here's the problem with artificial intelligence today," says David Cox.
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Google Reveals Blueprint For Quantum Supremacy
Researchers say they have outlined a way to achieve quantum supremacy, demonstrating a proof-of-principle version of a quantum computer.
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Warning: This Algorithm Will Self-Destruct After It's sed
Two researchers say they have built a proof-of-principle algorithm that destroys itself after use.
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Facial Recognition Is Only the Beginning
Apple says the inclusion of its Face ID technology in the upcoming iPhone X will make smartphone unlocking, payment, and other operations possible via facial recognition...
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Why Google's AI Can Write Beautiful Songs but Still Can't Tell a Joke
Creating noodling piano tunes and endless configurations of cat drawings with AI may not sound like an obvious project for Google, but it makes a lot of sense to...
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AI Programs Are Learning to Exclude Some African-American Voices
Researchers warn some artificial intelligence programs are inheriting biases against certain dialects, which could lead to automatic discrimination as language-based...
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First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
Researchers say they have proof that social bots are the key to the online proliferation of fake news.
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First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
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An Algorithm Trained on Emoji Knows When You're Being Sarcastic on Twitter
Researchers have developed a deep-learning textual sentiment algorithm which can analyze tweets to pick up sarcasm and general emotional subtext.
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To Build a Smarter Chatbot, First Teach It a Second Language
Researchers at Salesforce have developed a method that could improve the performance of modern language programs.
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