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Can Computers Help S Synthesize New Materials?
Following their proposal of a neural network-based artificial intelligence system that sifts through scientific papers and finds "recipes" for specific types of...
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The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march, supposedly coming for his job...
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Watch Robots Do Chin-ps, Push-ps, and Sit-ps For the Sake of Science
A team of Japanese researchers has developed Kengoro and Kenshiro, two humanoid robots that can perform push-ups, do crunches, stretch, and even sweat while exercising...
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Quick-Learning Neural Network Powered By Memristors
Researchers at the University of Michigan say they have invented a memristor-assembled reservoir computing system that reduces training time and enhances the capacity...
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Hacked Dog Pics Can Play Tricks on Computer Vision AI
Researchers at MIT have demonstrated a new way to fool computer vision algorithms that enable artificial intelligence systems to see.
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73 Percent of Developers Who Don't se AI Plan to Learn How in 2018
Although only 17 percent of software developers worked with artificial intelligence or machine learning this year, 73 percent of those who did not say they are...
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How Facebook's Political nit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda
Under fire for Facebook Inc.'s role as a platform for political propaganda, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has punched back, saying his mission is above partisanship...
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This Slightly Haunting Childlike Robot Has Helped Scientists Crowdsource Research For Over a Decade
Over the last 13 years, the iCub robot developed by researchers at the Italian Technology Institute has enabled researchers from around the world to conduct a range...
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Researchers Fooled a Google AI Into Thinking a Rifle Was a Helicopter
Tech giants love to tout how good their computers are at identifying what's depicted in a photograph.
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Evolutionary Programming Converts Darwinism Into Algorithms
Evolutionary computation strategies include a multitude of biologically inspired algorithms for optimizing problems, often those with too many variables to compare...
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AI Insights Could Help Reduce Injuries in Construction Industry
Researchers are using artificial intelligence to gain new insights into ways to help reduce wear-and-tear injuries and boost the productivity of construction workers...
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AI Tutoring: Genius on My Shoulder
Students are being given access to an incredibly smart digital friend with unlimited patience, programmed to sense the best way to impart knowledge.
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Artificial Intelligence, Nasa Data sed to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star
Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star...
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Social Media Trends Can Predict Tipping Points in Vaccine Scares
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada found analyzing trends on Twitter and Google helped predict vaccine scares.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Killing the Uncanny Valley and Our Grasp on Reality
As deep-learning artificial intelligence technologies advance, the "Uncanny Valley"--the unease people feel toward realistic computer-generated humans--is beginning...
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Artificial Intelligence and Supercomputers to Help Alleviate rban Traffic Problems
Researchers are working to develop tools enabling searchable traffic analyses using deep learning and data mining.
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AI Researchers Are Trying to Combat How AI Can Be sed to Lie and Deceive
Artificial intelligence researchers gathered last week to discuss measures against the technology's use for deceit and disinformation.
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Diagnosing Performance Problems in Supercomputers
The Lightweight Distributed Metric Service is a framework to automatically monitor and diagnose performance issues in supercomputers.
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Reading a Neural Network's Mind
Researchers at MIT CSAIL and the Qatar Computing Research Institute have used an interpretive method to analyze neural networks trained for machine translation...
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