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China's Xinhua Agency nveils AI News Presenter
China's Xinhua state news agency has debuted a virtual newsreader that the agency said "can read texts as naturally as a professional news anchor."
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To Keep Pace With Moore's Law, Chipmakers Turn to 'Chiplets'
In 2016, the chip industry's clock ran out.
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At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges
Discussion topics included counterterrorism, data breaches, and surveillance.
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Google in China: When 'Don't Be Evil' Met the Great Firewall
If you're planning on moving to China anytime soon, here's a piece of advice: Get yourself a WeChat account.
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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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This Robot Transforms Itself to Navigate an Obstacle Course
Researchers have created robots that can adapt to their environment based on centralized sensory processing, environmental perception, and decision-making software...
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Talent Gap Widens as Firms Battle for AI, Data Skills
A new study predicts demand for information technology workers will outstrip supply, due to growth in digital technologies, tighter labor markets, and few workers...
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Chinese 'Gait Recognition' Tech IDs People by How They Walk
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them,...
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Waymo Gets Green Light for Robot Cars in California; No Humans Needed
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has granted a permit to Waymo to test fully autonomous cars with no human driver on public roads.
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Can a Robot Learn a Language the Way a Child Does?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a method to train semantic parsers by mimicking the way a child learns language.
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Marvin Minsky Medal for Outstanding Achievements in AI
Libratus team announced as IJCAI Minsky medal recipients.
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Google Says 'Exponential' Growth of AI is Changing Nature of Compute
Google software engineer Cliff Young explains how the explosion in deep learning algorithms is coinciding with a breakdown in Moore's Law, forcing new computer...
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Machine Learning Spots Natural Selection at Work in Human Genome
Pinpointing where and how the human genome is evolving can be like hunting for a needle in a haystack.
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English Has the Scientific Edge, for Now
For centuries, science was a multilingual affair, powered by French, German, English and other tongues. But since the early 1970s, English has become the undisputed...
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An AI Lie Detector Will Interrogate Travelers at Some E Borders
An artificial intelligence-based lie detector system will be used on international travelers during a six-month pilot program at border crossings in Hungary, Latvia...
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Search Engine for CCTV Lets You Find People From Their Description
A new system uses machine learning to automatically match individuals in videos with their descriptions.
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Researchers Combine Technologies for New Digital Stethoscope
A prototype digital stethoscope for grading heart ailments and heart-pump performance incorporates precision sensors, electrocardiogram technology, and machine...
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Christie’s First to Sell Art Made by AI
A painted portrait produced by a machine learning algorithm was auctioned for $432,000 by Christie's auction house in New York.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Learning to Keep Learning
What if you stopped learning after graduation? It sounds stultifying, but that is how most machine-learning systems are trained.
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