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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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AI Can Recognize Images. But Can It nderstand This Headline?
In 2012, artificial intelligence researchers revealed a big improvement in computers' ability to recognize images by feeding a neural network millions of labeled...
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Getting Your TV to Understand You Better
Researchers have developed a method to improve the voice query understanding capabilities of home entertainment platforms.
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AIs Are Being Tested to See How Well They nderstand Our Thoughts
Researchers have created a set of tests to explore the progress of artificial intelligence in understanding the world.
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The Outlook for Reality: Mixed
Exploring new frontiers in augmented and virtual reality.
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Model Can More Naturally Detect Depression in Conversations
A new neural network model can analyze raw text and audio data from clinical interviews to detect speech patterns signaling depression.
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Russian and American Scientists Collaborate to Create Faster Internet
Researchers at Samara Oblast University in Russia and the University of Missouri have created an algorithm that processes data 50% faster.
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First In-Home Test of Brain-Computer Communication by ALS Patients Offers Promise Amidst Challenges
Researchers have demonstrated the reliability of a brain-computer interface that gives patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis a means to communicate by thought...
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Silicon Valley Takes a (Careful) Step Toward Autonomous Flying
Several Silicon Valley startups are developing technology that can be applied to small helicopters and other passenger aircraft to allow for autonomous flight. ...
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Google and Harvard Made AI to Predict Earthquake Aftershocks
Google and Harvard University researchers have trained a neural network to accurately predict the locations of future aftershocks.
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AI Can Make High-Definition Fake Videos From Just a Simple Sketch
Nvidia and MIT researchers collaborated on open source software that can convert simple animated line drawings into realistic fake videos in 2K resolution.
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This Lens-less Camera Is Built Specially for AI and Computer Vision Programs
Cameras used to be their own devices with lenses and film and trips to the drug store to get the pictures developed. Then, they disappeared into phones, tablets...
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Artificial Intelligence Nails Predictions of Earthquake Aftershocks
A machine-learning study that analysed hundreds of thousands of earthquakes beat the standard method at predicting the location of aftershocks.
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AI-Human Partnerships Tackle 'Fake News'
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, inaccurate and misleading articles burned through social networks.
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How AI Can Be a Force for Good
For the well-being of humanity, it is crucial that the power of artificial intelligence is used as a force of good.
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Franken-algorithms: The Deadly Consequences of npredictable Code
The death of a woman hit by a self-driving car highlights an unfolding technological crisis, as code piled on code creates 'a universe no one fully understands'...
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Lip-Syncing Thanks to Artificial Intelligence
A new system uses artificial intelligence to edit the facial expressions of actors in a film to accurately match dubbed voices.
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These Friendly Helpful Robots Will Likely Be Your Future Rehabilitation Partners
A study by researchers at Freiburg University in Germany concluded that socially assistive robots will be used increasingly in the future.
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Scientists Hope Artificial Stupidity Could Save Humans
Some scientists are suggesting limiting how smart artificial intelligence can get—all the way down to human intelligence.
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Facebook, NY Aim to se AI to Speed p MRI Scans
Facebook's artificial intelligence laboratory, working with the New York University School of Medicine, generated reliable magnetic resonance imaging scans with...
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