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Team Designs Robots to Build Things in Messy, npredictable Situations
Researchers at Harvard University and the State University of New York at Buffalo are developing robots able to function outside of ideal, predictable environments...
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Teaching Machines to nderstand S
The first time Yann LeCun revolutionized artificial intelligence, it was a false dawn.
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This Is What Controversies Look Like in the Twittersphere
Kiran Garimella and colleagues at Aalto University in Finland say they have developed a more reliable way of spotting controversies in the Twitterstream in real...
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A Programming Language For Robot Swarms
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal researchers have developed a programming language designed to govern the movements of heterogeneous robot swarms.
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Military Robots: Armed, But How Dangerous?
An open letter calling for a ban on lethal weapons controlled by artificially intelligent machines was signed last week by thousands of scientists and technologists...
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Flying Robots That Can See
A tiny artificial eye inspired by the vision systems of insects could help small flying drones navigate their surroundings well enough to avoid collisions while...
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India Loves Moocs
Massively open online courses have taken off in a big way in India, where they are meeting a need for education, particularly technical education.
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Cars May Soon nderstand More of What You Say
Many cars today now come with limited voice control, but more elaborate and robust systems could be coming to cars soon.
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Minecraft Shows Robots How to Stop Dithering
The computer game Minecraft, which depicts a world made up of retro, pixelated blocks that can be modified and rearranged in endless architectural configurations...
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An Algorithmic Sense of Humor? Not Yet.
In recent months, artificial-intelligence researchers have made giant strides in matching human performance in all kind of tasks that had, until recently, been...
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Collaborative Photography App Allows Smartphones to Record 'bullet Time'
Anyone can now create "bullet-time" movies using collaborative photography techniques on their smartphones.
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Google's Deep Learning Machine Learns to Synthesize Real World Images
Google Street View offers panoramic views of more or less any city street in much of the developed world, as well as views along countless footpaths, inside shopping...
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How Ads Follow You from Phone to Desktop to Tablet
Imagine you slack off at work and read up online about the latest Gibson 1959 Les Paul electric guitar replica.
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Injectable Implants Could Help Crack the Brain's Codes
Understanding how the brain works—or doesn't, as the case may be—depends on deciphering the patterns of electrical signals its neurons produce.
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Who Will Own the Robots?
The way Hod Lipson describes his Creative Machines Lab captures his ambitions: "We are interested in robots that create and are creative."
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Deep-Learning Machine Beats Humans in Iq Test
Researchers say they have built a deep-learning machine that outperforms the average human's ability to answer verbal reasoning questions.
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The Emerging Science of Human Computation
A group of computer scientists, crowdsourcing pioneers, and visionaries has created a roadmap for research into human computation.
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Emtech Digital: Project Loon Head Details How the Balloons Interact
Google's Project Loon intends to use interconnected balloons to bring Internet service to parts of the world that remain largely disconnected.
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Deep Learning Catches On in New Industries, from Fashion to Finance
A machine-learning technique that has already given computers an eerie ability to recognize speech and categorize images is now creeping into industries ranging...
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