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Will Artificial Intelligence Win the Caption Contest?
When social-media users upload photographs and caption them, they don't just label their contents. They tell a story, which gives the photos context and additional...
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A Simple Way to Hasten the Arrival of Self-Driving Cars
Researchers have compiled a massive public dataset for self-driving vehicles culled from thousands of hours of data from a single stretch of road over a 12-month...
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Why a Chip That's Bad at Math Can Help Computers Tackle Harder Problems
Your math teacher lied to you. Sometimes getting your sums wrong is agood thing.
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Moore's Law's Ultraviolet Savior Is Finally Ready
It is easy to take for granted the advancements in our mobile phones, wearable electronics, and other gadgets. But advances in computing rely on processes that...
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Turing Tests and the Problem of Artificial Olfaction
The ability to reproduce scent artificially is surprisingly complex, and the work of the Weizmann Institute of Science's David Harel sheds light on the issue.
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Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics Over 700 Years
University of Namur researchers are using network science to map the links between mathematicians of the last 700 years.
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A $2 Billion Chip to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence
The field of artificial intelligence has experienced a striking spurt of progress in recent years, with software becoming much better at understanding images, speech...
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Data-Mining Algorithm Reveals the Stormy Evolution of Mathematics Over 700 Years
The history of mathematics is in some ways a study of the human mind and how it has understood the world.
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Could Alphago Bluff Its Way Through Poker?
University College London lecturer David Silver suggests software similar to Google DeepMind's AlphaGo could be crafted to play poker competently.
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How AI Is Feeding China's Internet Dragon
Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-looking...
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How Google Deepmind Plans to Solve Intelligence
Padded walls, gloomy lighting, and a ceiling with floral wallpaper.
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To Get Truly Smart, AI Might Need to Play More Video Games
The latest computer games can be fantastically realistic.
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A Bitcoin-Style Currency For Central Banks
Virtual currency could become more viable thanks to a new Bitcoin-like system developed by University College London researchers.
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Aims to Identify Terrorists Using the V Signs They Make
Ahmad Hassanat from Mu'tah University in Jordan and colleagues have developed a way to distinguish people from the unique way they make the "V for victory" sign...
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Big Data Analysis Is Changing the Nature of Sports Science
Sports scientists now can gather vast amounts of data on players and the action while games are in progress, but they still struggle to process the data in meaningful...
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Pentagon Hackers Are Waging America’s First Cyberwar
U.S. politicians have long threatened America's enemies with tanks, planes, submarines, and nuclear missiles. Last week defense secretary Ashton Carter leveled...
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Log In to Your Phone with a Finger-Drawn Doodle Instead of a Password
Rather than painstakingly typing in passwords on your smartphone, you may eventually just swipe a shape or other pattern on its display to authenticate yourself...
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Google nveils Neural Network with 'superhuman' Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image
Here's a tricky task. Pick a photograph from the Web at random. Now try to work out where it was taken using only the image itself.
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What Role Should Silicon Valley Play in Fighting Terrorism?
On Friday, January 8, several high-level officials from the Obama administration—including the attorney general, the White House chief of staff, and the directors...
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