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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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Riding Out Quarantine With a Chatbot Friend: ‘I Feel Very Connected’
The digital companions may sound like science fiction. But when social isolation became the norm, they helped deal with the loneliness, some users say.
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Who’s a Bot? Who’s Not?
It sometimes seems automated bots are taking over social media and driving human discourse. But some (real) researchers aren't so sure.
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Facebook's TransCoder AI Converts Code From One Programming Language Into Another
Facebook says its TransCoder can convert code from one high-level programming language into another.
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Access Denied: Faulty Automated Background Checks Freeze Out Renters
Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports. And almost nobody is watching.
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Microsoft Bans Police Face Recognition Sales as Big Tech Reacts to Protests
The announcement came a day after rival Amazon.com declared it was pausing police use of its "Rekognition" service for a year.
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AI vs. AI
Financial institutions use AI to create "synthetic identities" for customers; hackers use 'bad' AI to fool the 'good' AI.
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Untold History of AI: Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s
A medical school thought a computer program would make the admissions process fairer—but it did just the opposite.
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Stanford Lab Envisions Delivery Drones That Save Energy by Taking the Bus
Stanford University researchers have developed a methodology that allows delivery drones to take the bus.
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Manned Fighter to Face Autonomous Drone Next Year in Movie-Like Showdown
The planned test is part of a project to develop an artificial intelligence-driven drone that could change the face of air combat.
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Training Agents to Walk with Purpose
A new classification algorithm for relational data is more accurate and orders of magnitude more efficient than previous methods.
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Evolutionary Algorithm Spawns ‘Living Robots’ from Frog Cells
When an evolutionary algorithm generates a successful robot design, the next step is usually to manufacture a physical robot from metals or plastics. Now, researchers...
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Self-driving Cars Could only Prevent a Third of U.S. Crashes: Study
Traffic experts say nine in 10 crashes result from human error, and more than 36,000 people died in U.S. car crashes last year.
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Underwater Drones Join Hunt for Trillions in Mineral Riches Trapped on Ocean's Floor
The nascent seabed mining industry is using underwater drones to map the ocean floor in the hunt for precious minerals worth trillions.
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MSN Fires Journalists, Replaces Them With AI
Microsoft announced that it's laying off dozens of journalists, editors, and other workers at MSN and its other news divisions.
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Interactive Model Simulates Keeping House on Mars
The Arizona State University (ASU) School of Earth and Space Exploration Interplanetary Initiative is running a pilot program to assess simulated Mars habitats....
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In Virus-Hit South Korea, AI Monitors Lonely Elders
SK Telecom operates an artificial intelligence-powered network of voice-enabled "smart" speakers to monitor thousands of seniors during the coronavirus pandemic...
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'Artificial Chemist' Combines AI, Robotics to Conduct Autonomous R&D
A new technology combines artificial intelligence with robotics for conducting chemical reactions, to expedite R&D and synthesis of materials.
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Giving AI Common Sense
Can we teach smart machines what is obvious to every 10-year-old?
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Butterfly Landmines Mapped by Drones, Machine Learning
Researchers say drones and advanced machine learning can be used to detect improvised explosive devices and butterfly landmines.
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