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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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The Year A.I. Ate the Internet
Call 2023 the year many of us learned to communicate, create, cheat, and collaborate with robots.
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The AI Magic Show
Explanations about how deep learning and large language models actually work often emphasized incomprehensibility, or a model's explainability or interpretability...
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How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens
The inside story of the world's most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.
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Have iPhone Cameras Become Too Smart?
Apple's newest smartphone models use machine learning to make every image look professionally taken. That doesn't mean the photos are good.
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How the Artificial-Intelligence Program AlphaZero Mastered Its Games
A few weeks ago, a group of researchers from Google's artificial-intelligence subsidiary, DeepMind, published a paper in the journal Science that described an A...
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The Friendship That Made Google Huge
Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet.
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In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing?
In 2011, Hany Farid, a photo-forensics expert, received an e-mail from a bereaved father.
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Are We Already Living in Virtual Reality?
Thomas Metzinger had his first out-of-body experience when he was nineteen.
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The Olympics' Never-Ending Struggle to Keep Track of Time
At precisely three minutes and thirty seconds before two o'clock on the afternoon of Friday, April 10, 1896, on a bridge in the Greek town of Marathon, an army...
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Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords
Roboticists say they now are focused on human-robot interaction in the performance of complex tasks.
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Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords
When David Stinson finished high school, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1977, the first thing he did was get a job building houses.
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O.k., Computer, Tell Me What This Smells Like
Our sense of smell is gloriously specific.
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A Field Farmed Only By Drones
Across the United Kingdom, the last of the spring barley has been brought in from the fields, the culmination of an agricultural calendar whose rhythm has remained...
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Our Weather-Prediction Models Keep Getting Better, and Hurricane Irma Is the Proof
By Wednesday of last week, even as Tropical Storm Harvey continued to rain devastation on the Gulf Coast, a new storm, Irma, was taking shape in the eastern Atlantic...
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Seeing with Your Tongue
The climbers at Earth Treks gym, in Golden, Colorado, were warming up: stretching, strapping themselves into harnesses, and chalking their hands as they prepared...
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Could Ms. Pac-Man Train the Next Generation of Military Drones?
Thirty-five years ago, while Martin Amis was writing "Money," one of the novels that defined the 1980s, he admitted to a distracting dalliance with another contemporary...
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Will Driverless-Car Makers Learn to Share?
Last Monday, the Obama Administration released a hundred-and-twelve-page policy tome, "Federal Automated Vehicles Policy," which, despite its sleep-inducing title...
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Hacking, Cryptography, and the Countdown to Quantum Computing
Given the recent ubiquity of cyber-scandals—Colin Powell’s stolen e-mails, Simone Biles's leaked medical records, half a billion plundered Yahoo accounts—you might...
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Learning to Trust a Self-Driving Car
On a clear morning in early May, Brian Lathrop, a senior engineer for Volkswagen's Electronics Research Laboratory, was in the driver's seat of a Tesla Model S...
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