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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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If Workers Slack Off, the Wristband Will Know. (and Amazon Has a Patent For It.)
What if your employer made you wear a wristband that tracked your every move, and that even nudged you via vibrations when it judged that you were doing something...
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MIT Enlisting Hundreds of Scientists in Effort to Make Computers Think More Like People
MIT has launched the MIT Intelligence Quest, an agenda to coordinate the efforts of MIT's many experts to train computers to think in a more human-like manner. ...
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Vanderbilt Wins Top Prize in First Round of DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge
Vanderbilt University's MarmotE team has won the first round of the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge, which focuses on using machine intelligence to allocate...
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China Wants to Make the Chips that Will Add AI to Any Gadget
In an office at Tsinghua University in Beijing, a computer chip is crunching data from a nearby camera, looking for faces stored in a database.
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Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel
In early 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Applying Machine Learning to the niverse's Mysteries
Berkeley Lab scientists and their collaborators used neural networks to analyze simulations of heavy ion collisions.
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Every Study We Could Find on What Automation Will Do to Jobs, in One Chart
You've seen the headlines: "Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs—and We're Not Ready for It." "You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think." "Robots May...
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Deep Learning Pioneered For Real-Time Gravitational Wave Discovery
Researchers have developed a method for using graphics processing unit-accelerated deep learning for detecting and characterizing gravitational waves.
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Artificial Neurons Compute Faster Than the Human Brain
Superconducting computing chips modelled after neurons can process information faster and more efficiently than the human brain.
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The Algorithms of Our Future Thinking Machines
Researchers in Sweden are building algorithms for dynamic systems.
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New Algorithm Identifies 10 Times More Naturally Occurring Antibiotics Than All Previous Studies
VarQuest is a new computational approach for peptidic natural products identification that could identify about 10 times more of such products than all previous...
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Trust Me, I'm a Robot
In an interview, Ayanna Howard discusses her work directing the Georgia Institute of Technology's Human-Automation Systems Lab.
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Drones Learn to Navigate Autonomously By Imitating Cars and Bicycles
The DroNet algorithm enables drones to fly by themselves through the streets of a city and in indoor environments.
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New Autonomous Car Can Handle Snow and Ice
Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Center in Finland have developed a self-driving vehicle designed to maneuver in rough and icy conditions.
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AI Can Read! Tech Firms Race to Smarten p Thinking Machines
Seven years ago, a computer beat two human quizmasters on a "Jeopardy" challenge. Ever since, the tech industry has been training its machines even harder to make...
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Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'brain-on-a-Chip' Hardware
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can't be beat.
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Going Serverless
Serverless computing lets businesses and application developers focus on the program they need to run, without worrying about the machine on which it runs, or the...
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Cartoon Clinicians: Precursors of Virtual Therapy?
Soldiers in one study were more open with a virtual character about post-traumatic stress symptoms than with human doctors.
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Trash Talk From an AI Could Help Humans Cooperate Better
Researchers have developed an algorithm to help artificial intelligence and humans learn to cooperate.
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