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China's Plan For World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy After All
Xu Li's software scans more faces than maybe any on earth. He has the Chinese police to thank.
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AI Artist Conjures p Convincing Fake Worlds From Memories
Researchers have developed a neural network capable of creating realistic photos based on real-world images.
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Mapping the Brain, Neuron By Neuron
Researchers worked with an international team of neuroscientists to create a complete map of the learning and memory center of the fruit fly larva brain
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Computer 'anthropologists' Study Global Fashion
Researchers are using deep-learning methods to analyze billions of photos uploaded to photo-sharing services and social media platforms.
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Inside the Increasingly Complex Algorithms That Get Packages to Your Door
If you had to hand-deliver 50 packages, how would you go about planning the best route?
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Your Virtual Robot Assistant
With its "unique capabilities," virtual "James" is designed to interact with people regarding the delivery of a service.
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A True Random-Number Generator Built From Carbon Nanotubes
Researchers say they have built a true random number generator from a static random-access memory cell printed with a specialized carbon nanotube ink.
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How A.i. Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art
In the mid-1990s, Douglas Eck worked as a database programmer in Albuquerque while moonlighting as a musician.
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Deepmind AI Teaches Itself About the World By Watching Videos
Researchers at Google's DeepMind unit have developed an artificial intelligence system that teaches itself to recognize visual and audio concepts by watching video...
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Instagram Posts Can Reveal Depression Better Than Anything Patients Tell Their Doctors
Researchers at the University of Vermont and Harvard University say algorithmic analysis of Instagram posts could diagnose depression more effectively than physicians...
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Researchers 'count Cars'--Literally--to Manage Traffic
OverFeat Framework is a new automated car-counting system.
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New Research Could Show How Legendary Musicians Would Play Modern Music
Researchers are developing a system that could be used to show how musicians from any era would have played a piece of music from any other era.
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First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
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ta Researcher Seeks to Minimize Risks For nmanned Aerial Systems Over Populated Areas
A researcher will use a $550,000 U.S. National Science Foundation grant to quantify risks posed by unmanned aerial systems and create algorithms to reduce those...
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Nsf Grant Aims to se Big Data to Improve Crops
Researchers have received a $1.2-million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to help biologists improve crop management.
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Cu Boulder Wants Humans to Experience Secret Life of Pets
Researchers have received a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to design and build wearable technologies to help humans experience the world through a dog's...
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Aussies Win Amazon Robotics Challenge
Team ACRV, from the Australian Center for Robotic Vision at the Queensland University of Technology, won the final combined task in Amazon's 2017 Robotics Challenge...
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Hacking Cybersecurity to Anticipate Attacks
The ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks in July highlighted developing a hacking model for anticipating cyberattacks.
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How Can Humans Keep Control of Ai?
Osaka University president Shojiro Nishio stresses the need to keep artificial intelligence under human control.
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