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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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'A Certain Danger Lurks There': How the Inventor of the First Chatbot Turned Against AI
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans...
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Rentokil Pilots Facial Recognition System as Way to Exterminate Rats
U.K. pest control services provider Rentokil is testing facial recognition software as a tool for rat extermination.
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New Zealand VR App Helps Conquer Phobias
oVRcome, a phone-based virtual reality (VR) application designed to treat phobias, successfully completed a six-week clinical trial.
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