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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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Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk
Researchers developed an army of more than 4,000 simulated doglike robots and used them to train an algorithm to control a real-world robot's legs.
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AI's Smarts Now Come With a Big Price Tag
As language models get more complex, they also get more expensive to create and run. Some companies are locked out.
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AI-Generated Deepfake Voices Can Fool Humans, Smart Assistants
Freely available voice-mimicking software can deceive people and voice-activated tools like smart assistants, according to University of Chicago scientists.
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A New Link to an Old Model Could Crack the Mystery of Deep Learning
To help them explain the shocking success of deep neural networks, researchers are turning to older but better-understood models of machine learning.
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Google Wants to Use AI to Time Traffic Lights More Efficiently
Google said it intends to test the use of artificial intelligence to optimize traffic-signal timing in Rio de Janeiro.
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Edge Computing: The Architecture of the Future
To fully digitize the last mile of business, you need to distribute compute power where it's needed most -- next to IoT devices that collect data from the real...
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County DA Pilots Race-Blind Charging Algorithm
The Yolo County, CA, District Attorney's Office incorporated a redaction algorithm into its digital case management system to analyze racial bias in charging decisions...
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ML Helps Reveal Cells' Inner Structures in Detail
Researchers combined electron microscopy with machine learning to identify structures within cells.
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Google's AI Upscaling Technology Outperforms Previous Models
New models developed by the search giant upgrade the resolution of photos.
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The Rise of the Robo-Voices
New technology lets filmmakers create foreign-language versions of their movies using samples of the original actors' voices.
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Los Alamos Scientists Take Top Prizes in National Competition to Help Improve Electrical Grid
Hassan Hijazi and Carleton Coffrin of Los Alamos National Laboratory earned top prizes in a national contest to develop algorithms to enhance the electrical grid...
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AI Is Smart, but Does It Play Well with Others?
Researchers explored humans' ability to play a card game with an artificial intelligence model trained to play with teammates never before encountered.
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Making Self-Driving Cars Human-Friendly
A drift diffusion model could make self-driving vehicles safer for pedestrians by helping to predict when people will cross the road.
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Microsoft Predicts Weather for Individual Farms
Microsoft’s DeepMC framework uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to predict local weather.
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X-Ray Technology Reveals Marie Antoinette's Censored Secret Correspondence
Technology has retrieved secret correspondence from French queen Marie-Antoinette to Swedish count Axel von Fersen, that a censor blotted out with dark ink.
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DeepMind AI Can Accurately Predict if it Will Rain in Next 90 Minutes
Artificial intelligence can forecast extremely short-term rainfall more accurately than current models.
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Risk Assessment Algorithms Can Unfairly Impact Court Decisions
A study suggests pretrial risk assessment algorithms increase the likelihood that judges will change their priorities in making pretrial decisions.
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How AI Completed Beethoven's Unfinished Tenth Symphony
Computer scientists, music historians, musicologists, and composers applied artificial intelligence to the task of completing Beethoven's unfinished Tenth Symphony...
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