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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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Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves
In one Southern California city, flying drones with artificial intelligence are aiding investigations while presenting new civil rights questions.
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Army Computer Models Unveil Secret to Quieter Small Drones
Researchers demonstrated how aviation specialists can use computational fluid dynamics to facilitate development of quieter unmanned aerial drones.
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Voice Assistant Recordings Could Reveal What Someone Nearby Is Typing
A machine learning system can be used with voice assistants to detect typing on touchscreens nearby, using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to determine what...
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Robot Hands One Step Closer to Human, Thanks to WMG AI Algorithms
Artificial intelligence algorithms enable the Shadow Robot Dexterous Hand to manipulate objects like humans do.
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Cyberattacks Discovered on Vaccine Distribution Operations
IBM has found that companies and governments have been targeted by unknown attackers, prompting a warning from the Homeland Security Department.
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Computing Empowers Immune Cells to Kill Cancer
A team of computer scientists and bioengineers has developed a method of engineering T cells to recognize a specific combination of cancer markers.
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Does AI in Healthcare Need More Emotion?
Emotion artificial intelligence applications in healthcare are rare, with many scientists skeptical of the technology's utility.
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How Humans Use Objects in Novel Ways to Solve Problems
Researchers have developed a cognitive model that learns to use objects in novel ways to solve problems, like humans do.
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Mathematicians Apply 19th Century Ideas to Modern Computerized Algebra Systems
Mathematicians have added new symbolic integration functionality to the Sage computerized algebra system.
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Exploring 'Data Storytelling'
Conversational interfaces provide spoken responses to queries of business databases.
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AI Can Turn Spoken Language Into Photorealistic Sign Language Videos
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of Surrey employed a neural network to render spoken language as sign language.
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Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First
A Swiss publisher of open-access journals has rolled out a robotic review assistant to check for potential conflicts of interest.
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Disney Is Teaching Robots How to Sculpt with Clay
Researchers created a system that allows human artists to train robots to sculpt clay, with tools that allow them to emulate artistic styles.
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Search and Rescue Drones Use AI to Find People Lost in Woods
New drones are equipped with a deep learning application that improves the images they collect during search and rescue missions to better distinguish people from...
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London AI Lab Claims Breakthrough That Could Accelerate Drug Discovery
Researchers at DeepMind say they have solved "the protein folding problem," a task that has bedeviled scientists for more than 50 years.
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A Neural Network Learns When It Should Not Be Trusted
Researchers have enabled a neural network to rapidly process data, yielding both predictions and confidence levels based on the quality of the available data.
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China's Xi Jinping Pushing for Global Covid QR Code
Chinese president Xi Jinping has called for a uniform set of policies and standards to ensure the "smooth functioning" of the global economy during the pandemic...
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Deep Learning Helps Robots Grasp, Move Objects with Ease
New artificial intelligence software integrates neural networks with motion-planning software to enable robots to assist humans in warehouse settings.
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Rethinking Public Broadband
U.S. infrastructure shortcomings re-ignite public/private debate over broadband.
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