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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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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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Berkeley Lab Researchers Target Chem Code For Knights Landing
Researchers are helping computational chemists prepare to compute efficiently on next-generation exascale machines.
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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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Software Synthesis Learns By Example
Neural networks will assist, rather than replace, human programmers.
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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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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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What It Means to {codelikeagirl}
The University of Rochester has significantly increased the number of female students graduating with computer science degrees.
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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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Virtual Lemonade Sends Color and Taste to a Glass of Water
Researchers say they have developed a system that can digitally transmit the color and sourness of a glass of lemonade to a tumbler of water.
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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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nexpected, Star-Spangled Find May Lead to Advanced Electronics
Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas say they have developed a material that can transform from an atomically thin, two-dimensional sheet into an array...
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Quadruped Robot Exhibits Spontaneous Changes in Step with Speed
Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan have successfully demonstrated that a quadruped robot can spontaneously change its steps between energy-efficient patterns...
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Seeing Sound
Texas A&M University professor Tim Davis uses sparse matrix algorithms to create works of electronic art by visualizing music.
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sing Virtual Reality to Catch a Real Ball
Disney researchers have developed ways to enhance virtual experiences involving interactions with physical objects by showing how a person using a virtual reality...
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'girls in Stem' Culture Is Failing Both Girls and STEM
Cleoniki Kesidis writes that a culture that tries to encourage girls to enter science, technology, engineering, and math fields guilt-tripped her into pursuing...
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Research Leads to a Golden Discovery For Wearable Technology
Missouri S&T researchers have developed a way to "grow" thin layers of gold on single crystal wafers of silicon and use them as substrates on which to grow other...
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