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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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'No-Code' Brings the Power of AI to the Masses
Products allow anyone to use AI without writing any computer code.
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Here Come the Artificial Intelligence Nutritionists
Companies are experimenting with personalized diet apps, saying the future of healthy eating is A.I.
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AI Can Help Historians Restore Ancient Texts
DeepMind AI tool helps historians restore ancient Greek texts with 72% accuracy with human help
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Robots with Realistic Pain Expressions Can Reduce Examination Error, Bias
A new technique for generating more realistic facial expressions of pain on robotic patients could also help correct signs of bias among medical students.
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How Wrongful Arrests Based on AI Derailed 3 Men's Lives
Robert Williams, Michael Oliver, and Nijeer Parks were misidentified by facial recognition software. The impact cast a long shadow.
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Can AI Help Casinos Cut Down on Problem Gambling?
Researchers are looking to artificial intelligence as a way to potentially identify and predict problem gambling.
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Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
What would it take for artificial intelligence to make real progress?
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The Hidden Role of Facial Recognition Tech in Many Arrests
The technology is spreading fast among police, and often wrong. But people charged with crimes are rarely told an algorithm came into play.
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Hyperspectral Sensing, AI Pave Path for Monitoring Soil Carbon
New artificial intelligence-powered algorithms based on laboratory soil hyperspectral data can estimate soil organic carbon properties as precisely as fieldwork...
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AI Will Evaluate Your Job Application. Do You Still Want to Apply?
A study suggests that the answer may depend on how artificial intelligence is used.
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AI Model Detects Mental Disorders Based on Web Posts
Analyzes emotions, not specific content, in social media posts to generate a user's emotional "fingerprint"
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Researchers Can Steal Data During Homomorphic Encryption
Researchers at North Carolina State University and Turkey's Dokuz Eylul University have cracked next-generation homomorphic encryption via side-channel attacks....
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AI Tool Could Help Plan NYS's Transition to Clean Electrical Power
Cornell University's Fengqi You and Ning Zhao have designed an artificial intelligence tool that could help New York state plan its switch to clean electricity ...
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Injecting Fairness into ML Models
Researchers have devleoped a method of incorporating fairness into machine learning models, even if they are trained on unfair data.
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A Smart Self-Learning Assistance System for the Manufacturing Industry
The MADDOX self-learning assistance system can analyze machine and process data in order to boost manufacturing efficiency.
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NHL Launching Faceoff Probability Stat with AWS Technology
The National Hockey League is launching a faceoff probability statistic, using Amazon Web Services to apply 10 years of data and in-game analytics.
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People Are Bad at Spotting Fake LinkedIn Profiles Generated by AI
Scientists found fake profiles produced by artificial intelligence on the business social network LinkedIn can easily deceive people.
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Using ML to Understand How Brain Cells Work
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers used machine learning and artificial intelligence to better understand how interacting traits influence brain cells'...
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UC Berkeley Robot Navigation Could Chart New Course for Self-Driving Systems
An approach that uses hours of video and elements of reinforcement learning can guide a robot vehicle almost two miles without a full map of the surroundings.
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