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The Human Remembering Machine
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The Human Remembering Machine

They called it the Hubble Telescope of the mind.

How to Steal the Mind of an AI
From ACM TechNews

How to Steal the Mind of an AI

Machine-learning models can be reverse engineered, and basic safeguards are little help in ameliorating attacks, according to a paper presented at the 25th Annual...

How to Steal an AI
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How to Steal an AI

In the burgeoning field of computer science known as machine learning, engineers often refer to the artificial intelligences they create as "black box" systems:...

Researchers Make Progress Toward Computer Video Recognition
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Researchers Make Progress Toward Computer Video Recognition

Google researchers are working to advance video-recognition technology, which Rajat Monga on Google's Brain team says is due to progress in deep-learning models...

A Combination of Machine Learning and Game Theory Helps Fight Elephant Poaching in ­ganda
From ACM TechNews

A Combination of Machine Learning and Game Theory Helps Fight Elephant Poaching in ­ganda

Technology that integrates machine learning and game theory, called Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security (PAWS), is being tested in Uganda as a way to fight...

Drone Learns 'to See' in Zero-Gravity
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Drone Learns 'to See' in Zero-Gravity

A small drone has learned how to determine distances using only one camera during an experiment aboard the International Space Station. 

Will Driverless-Car Makers Learn to Share?
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Will Driverless-Car Makers Learn to Share?

Last Monday, the Obama Administration released a hundred-and-twelve-page policy tome, "Federal Automated Vehicles Policy," which, despite its sleep-inducing title...

Removing Gender Bias From Algorithms
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Removing Gender Bias From Algorithms

Machine-learning systems taught interesting patterns from data and documents fed into them could also pick up gender stereotypes from those sources.

Deep Learning Boosts Google Translate Tool
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Deep Learning Boosts Google Translate Tool

Google's online translation service, Google Translate, will soon be using a new algorithm that is entirely based on deep learning, the company announced on 27 September...

Computer Science, Math Laureates Convene in Heidelberg
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Computer Science, Math Laureates Convene in Heidelberg

Recipients of the Abel Prize, the Fields Medal, the Nevanlinna Prize, and the ACM A.M. Turing Award met with 200 young researchers from over 50 nations.

Google, Facebook, Amazon Join Forces on Future of AI
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Google, Facebook, Amazon Join Forces on Future of AI

The world's biggest technology companies are joining forces to consider the future of artificial intelligence.

Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI
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Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI

Google's Project Loon plans to use balloons to beam the Internet from the stratosphere down to people on Earth where access is otherwise unavailable.  

Google's New Service Translates Languages Almost as Well as Humans Can
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Google's New Service Translates Languages Almost as Well as Humans Can

Google's latest advance in machine learning could make the world a little smaller.

Programmable Chips Turning Azure Into a Supercomputing Powerhouse
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Programmable Chips Turning Azure Into a Supercomputing Powerhouse

Microsoft is embarking on a major upgrade of its Azure systems.

Automated Screening For Childhood Communication Disorders
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Automated Screening For Childhood Communication Disorders

Researchers have used machine learning to develop a computer system that can automatically screen young children for speech and language disorders.  

Ibm and Mit Partner ­p to Create AI That ­nderstands Sight and Sound the Way We Do
From ACM TechNews

Ibm and Mit Partner ­p to Create AI That ­nderstands Sight and Sound the Way We Do

The new IBM-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Brain-inspired Multimedia Machine Comprehension will research computer vision and audition.  

Stealing an AI Algorithm and Its ­nderlying Data Is a 'high-School Level Exercise'
From ACM TechNews

Stealing an AI Algorithm and Its ­nderlying Data Is a 'high-School Level Exercise'

Cornell Tech researchers have shown they can reverse-engineer machine-learning algorithms, essentially stealing artificial intelligence products and using them...

Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI
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Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI

This summer, the Google X lab launched a balloon into the stratosphere over Peru, and it stayed there for 98 days.

The Wikipedia Bots that Are Engaged in Spats that Never End
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The Wikipedia Bots that Are Engaged in Spats that Never End

Is. Isn't. Is. Isn’t. Is. Isn't.

Battling Algorithmic Bias
From Communications of the ACM

Battling Algorithmic Bias

How do we ensure algorithms treat us fairly?
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