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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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Brain Cartography: Modern-Day Explorers Are Mapping the Wiring of the Human Mind
The brain can be both best friend and worst enemy.
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Will Artificial Intelligence Win the Caption Contest?
When social-media users upload photographs and caption them, they don't just label their contents. They tell a story, which gives the photos context and additional...
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Silicon Photonics: Ready to Go the Distance?
Processes for making CMOS chips are adapted for optical components.
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Cybersecurity Gets Smart
Researchers aim to apply artificial intelligence and machine-learning methods to take cybersecurity to a new, higher, and better level.
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Can Chatbots Think Before They Talk?
ELIZA-like programs balance modern AI with decades-old database techniques.
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For Michigan Professor, Computer Science Is Much More Than a Job
University of Michigan researchers have developed Sirius, an open platform for intelligent assistants such as Siri, Cortana, and Google Now.
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Regenstrief, Iu Study Finds Machine Learning as Good as Humans' in Cancer Surveillance
Researchers say algorithms and open source machine-learning tools are as effective as human reviewers in detecting cancer cases using data from free-text pathology...
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The Terminator and the Washing Machine
What the legendary matches between supercomputer Deep Blue and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov reveal about today’s artificial intelligence and machine learning...
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Long After His Accident, Sam Schmidt Takes the Wheel Again Thanks to Project Sam
In the late 90s, Sam Schmidt had a promising career as an IndyCar driver, finishing fifth in the championship in 1999 after taking his first win in Las Vegas.
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.
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Triple Threat: of T Computer Scientist Combines Machine Learning, Robotics, and Computer Vision
Raquel Urtasun is specializing in creating algorithms to help computers make decisions previously reserved for humans.
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Robotic Consensus
Planning algorithms for teams of robots fall into two categories: centralized algorithms, in which a single computer makes decisions for the whole team, and decentralized...
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Mit's Teaching AI How to Help Stop Cyberattacks
Finding evidence that someone compromised your cyber defenses is a grind.
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Microsoft Research Chief: AI Is Still Too Stupid to Wipe S Out (and Will Be For Decades)
Microsoft Research Cambridge laboratory director Chris Bishop dismisses the fear artificial intelligence is on the cusp of overtaking human intelligence.
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Arms Control Groups rge Human Control of Robot Weaponry
Two international arms control groups on Monday issued a report that called for maintaining human control over a new generation of weapons that are increasingly...
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Why Robots Need to Be Able to Say 'no'
Robots' blind obedience to human instructions can lead to harmful results and unwanted outcomes.
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Soft Robotic Fingers Recognize Objects By Feel
Daniela Rus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has led the development of bendable, stretchable robot fingers that can lift and handle delicate objects...
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'new Rembrandt' Unveiled in Amsterdam
A portrait titled "the Next Rembrandt" is the end-product of an 18-month project that brought together data scientists, developers, engineers, and art historians...
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The Robot Will See You Now: U of T Experts on the Revolution of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
The University of Toronto hosted a panel discussion Tuesday on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in medicine.
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