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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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I Took the AI Class Facebookers Are Literally Sprinting to Get Into
Chia-Chiunn Ho was eating lunch inside Facebook headquarters, at the Full Circle Cafe, when he saw the notice on his phone: Larry Zitnick, one of the leading figures...
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Nasa Tests Observing Capability on Hawaii's Coral Reefs
NASA pulled off a scientific double play in Hawaii this winter, using the same instruments and aircraft to study both volcanoes and coral reefs.
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Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race For American Jobs
Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans?
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Toward Printable, Sensor-Laden 'skin' For Robots
Researchers believe three-dimensional printing of flexible electronics integrating sensors and processing circuitry is key to bulk manufacturing of a robot "skin...
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Machine Learning Lets Scientists Reverse-Engineer Cellular Control Networks
Researchers are using the Texas Advanced Computing Center's Stampede supercomputer to create tadpoles with pigmentation never before seen in nature.
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Google's AI Explosion in One Chart
Nature. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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These AI Bots Created Their Own Language to Talk to Each Other
OpenAI last week disclosed new research detailing the training of artificial intelligence bots to generate their own shared language.
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Silicon Valley's Quest to Live Forever
On a velvety March evening in Mandeville Canyon, high above the rest of Los Angeles, Norman Lear's living room was jammed with powerful people eager to learn the...
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Scientists Hack a Human Cell and Reprogram It Like a Computer
Cells are basically tiny computers: They send and receive inputs and output accordingly.
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People Remain Calm as the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests
University at Buffalo researchers found despite some violent acts, most people will be helpful to others as the world ends.
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New AI Algorithm Beats Even the World's Worst Traffic
Researchers have developed an intelligent routing algorithm designed to minimize the occurrence of spontaneous traffic jams across a roadway network.
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Machine Learning Opens p New Ways to Help Disabled People
Companies are developing and launching machine-learning technologies and applications to enhance the experience of disabled persons.
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Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.i. Apocalypse
It was just a friendly little argument about the fate of humanity. Demis Hassabis, a leading creator of advanced artificial intelligence, was chatting with ...
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Sensors on the Brain
Implantable wireless monitors give researchers a new look inside the human body.
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Computing the Arts
Artists can use software to create art, and some software creates art all on its own.
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How to Hunt For a Black Hole with a Telescope the Size of Earth
Here's how to catch a black hole. First, spend many years enlisting eight of the top radio observatories across four continents to join forces for an unprecedented...
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Atomic Clocks Make Best Measurement Yet of Relativity of Time
Our most accurate clocks are probing a key tenet of Einstein's theory of relativity: the idea that time isn't absolute.
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Point-and-Click Method Makes Robot Grasping Control Less Tedious
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are working to make the process of a robot autonomously grasping an object easier.
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