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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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DarkBert AI Was Trained Using Dark Web Data
Researchers turned to the depths of the dark web to train this new language model
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Can We Stop Runaway A.I.?
Technologists warn about the dangers of the so-called singularity. But can anything actually be done to prevent it?
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Spooked by ChatGPT, US Lawmakers Want to Create an AI Regulator
At a congressional hearing, senators from both parties and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said a new federal agency was needed to protect people from AI gone bad.
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Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning
A provocative paper from researchers at Microsoft claims A.I. technology shows the ability to understand the way people do. Critics say those scientists are kidding...
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How Content Creators Cope with Discriminatory Algorithms
"AI has embedded our cultural biases and threatens to perpetuate discriminatory human behavior."
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Researchers Create Robot Capable of Cleaning Your Room, Doing Your Laundry
An international team of researchers has created the TidyBot robot, which can be commanded to clear spaces of objects.
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Google Unveils Plan to Demolish the Journalism Industry Using AI
This could change everything.
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The Global Battle to Regulate AI Is Just Beginning
Europe's parliament is struggling to agree on new rules to govern AI—showing how policymakers everywhere have a lot to learn about the technology.
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Your Job Is (Probably) Safe from Artificial Intelligence
Why predictions of an imminent economic revolution are overstated.
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Quantum Computer Tackles Airport Problem
An international team of researchers is developing and testing algorithms for problems involving quantum circuits.
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Coding Instructors Are Adding AI to Their Lessons – Before AI Replaces Them
Coding schools like General Assembly are preparing engineers and data analysts to use ChatGPT.
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Businesses Not Embracing AI Could Fall Behind, Warns Tech Executive
AI could be used to name products or review legal documents, said Airtable CFO Ambereen Toubassy.
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TV's War With the Robots Is Already Here
A.I. screenwriting, a point of contention in the Writers Guild strike, may not yet be ready for prime time. But streaming algorithms and derivative programming...
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How To Delete Your Data From ChatGPT
OpenAI has new tools that give you more control over your information—although they may not go far enough.
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Training Machines to Learn More Like Humans Do
Scientists found computer vision models can be trained to produce more stable, predictable visual representations, similar to those humans learn through perceptual...
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Synthetic Data Could Be Better Than Real Data
Some researchers envision synthetic data as not only offering content that is close enough to actual data to preserve privacy, but also enabling production of better...
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Tech Increases Equity in Diabetes Care for Kids
The 4T Program found technology can democratize diabetes care for children.
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Japan Firms Turn to VR for Customer Service Training
Increasingly, Japanese companies are using virtual reality technology to train customer service staff.
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Deere Seeks Satellite Network to Connect Far-Flung Farms
Farm-equipment company Deere aims to network farms in remote regions of Brazil and the U.S. via satellites.
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