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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots
If and when we finally encounter aliens, they probably won't look like little green men, or spiny insectoids.
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How to Fool a Computer With Optical Illusions
Computers, like people, understand what they see in the world based on what they've seen before.
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Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web
Diogo Mónica once wrote a short computer script that gave him a secret weapon in the war for San Francisco dinner reservations.
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Amputee Simultaneously Controls Two Prosthetic Arms with His Mind
Replacement limbs that completely replicate the functions and abilities of real limbs are the current white whale of prosthetics, and we're getting closer: mind...
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Stanford to Host 100-Year Study on Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University will spearhead a century-long initiative to study and predict the impact of artificial intelligence in all aspects of people's lives.
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As Robots Grow Smarter, American Workers Struggle to Keep p
Economists and technologists have long said the march of technological progress and increased automation will create new jobs and opportunities that offset the...
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ndersea Robot Explores Life Below Arctic Ice
While 2014 has not been kind to rockets, it has been a banner year for robots of all stripes.
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Innovators of Intelligence Look to Past
Inside the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, known as AI2, everything is a gleaming architectural white.
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Robobrain: The World's First Knowledge Engine For Robots
One of the most exciting changes influencing modern life is the ability to search and interact with information on a scale that has never been possible before.
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DARPA Offers Free Watson-Like Artificial Intelligence
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled an open source version of IBM's Watson named DeepDive. The system's performance was ahead of or...
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sing Robots to Get More Food From Raw Materials
SINTEF researchers are developing Gribbot, a fully functional robot designed to automate the process of extracting breast fillets from chickens, a task normally...
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Watson Wannabes: 4 Open Source Projects For Machine Intelligence
Four groups have been developing IBM Watson-like systems based on open source work.
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Ccc Brain Workshop: Research Interfaces Between Brain Science and Computer Science
A recent workshop on the interfaces between brain research and computer science brought together neuroscientists and computer scientists over speeches and panel...
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Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Threat – Yet
New York University professor Gary Marcus says "superintelligent" machines are unlikely to arrive soon, but we already place a great deal of power in the hands...
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Boston Researcher Cynthia Breazeal Is Ready to Bring Robots Into the Home. Are You?
The MIT Media Lab's Personal Robots Group flanks the soaring atrium on the fourth floor of the Wiesner Building, a wall of metal panels along the southern edge...
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Two Robots, One Challenge, Endless Possibility
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing robots that can enter dangerous places.
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More-Flexible Digital Communication
Researchers say they have begun to describe theoretical limits on the degree of imprecision that communicating computers can tolerate.
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Food: The Rarely Seen Robots That Package What We Eat
Last July, while touring a jelly bean factory, I came upon a startling sight.
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Toshiba Android Will Take You For a Trip Down the ncanny Valley
Researchers have developed Aiko Chihiro, a lifelike communication android.
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