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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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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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Deep Neural Nets Can Now Recognize Your Face in Thermal Images
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have developed a method of matching infrared images and visible light images of the same face.
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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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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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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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How Machine Vision Solved One of the Great Mysteries of 20th-Century Surrealist Art
A pair of identical paintings attributed to Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte has long mystified art experts as to which one is the original.
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Automated Vehicles: One Eye on the Road, Another on You
The importance of tracking motorist behavior will grow as more automated vehicles are rolled out, especially as it relates to the issue of assigning liability in...
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The Real Software Security Problem Is S
There are simple steps that can be taken to make software more secure and resilient, writes Carnegie Mellon University professor Jean Yang.
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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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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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Household Robots Are Here, but Where Are They Going?
Social robots like the quasi-anthropomorphic Jibo and Amazon's far more utilitarian Echo are beginning to find their places in our living rooms.
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Computational Aesthetics Algorithm Spots Beauty That Humans Overlook
A team of researchers has developed a machine-vision algorithm that can identify and highlight beautiful images.
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Machine Dreams
To rescue its struggling business, Hewlett-Packard is making a long-shot bid to change the fundamentals of how computers work.
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Oculus Rift Hack Transfers Your Facial Expressions Onto Your Avatar
Researchers have developed a system to track the facial expressions of users wearing a virtual-reality headset and transfer them to a virtual avatar.
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