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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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Researchers: Are We on the Cusp of an 'AI Winter'?
There are signs that the hype over artificial intelligence might be about to start cooling off.
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AI Comes to the Operating Room
Surgeons are utilizing artificial intelligence and new imaging methods to diagnose brain tumors faster than pathologists, and with similar accuracy.
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White House Proposes Guidelines for Regulating Use of AI
The Trump administration is proposing new federal rules for regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the private sector.
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Baidu Has Trick for Teaching AI the Meaning of Language
Chinese technology company Baidu outperformed Microsoft and Google in the General Language Understanding Evaluation, a benchmark for artificial intelligence comprehension...
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Donald Knuth on Algorithms, Complexity, and The Art of Computer Programming
Computer scientist Donald Knuth discusses Alan Turing, neural networks, machine learning, and other topics from ant colonies and human cognition.
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Roomba Mistaken For a Burglar by Spooked Homeowners
Police called to investigate possible home intruders found a hard-working robotic vacuum instead.
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Lasers Learn to Accurately Spot Space Junk
Chinese researchers have developed a set of algorithms that significantly improves the accuracy of detecting space junk in earth's orbit.
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Tool Uses AI to Flag Fake News for Media Fact-Checkers
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that could help social media networks and news organizations screen out fake news.
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Will Deepfakes Do Deep Damage?
The ability to produce fake videos that appear amazingly real is here. Researchers are now developing ways to detect and prevent them.
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Don’t Trust AI Until We Build Systems That Earn Trust
Progress in artificial intelligence belies a lack of transparency that is vital for its adoption, says Gary Marcus, coauthor of "Rebooting AI"
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AI-Driven Robots Are Improving Solar Cells, Other Technologies
A new single-armed robotic system is equipped with an artificial intelligence algorithm, in order to perform materials science design tests.
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Princeton Researchers Listen In on the Chemical Conversation of the Human Microbiome
New computer algorithms that can detect biosynthetic gene clusters by analyzing and interpreting metagenomic sequencing data from the tissues or excretions of human...
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Recognizing Kin
Researchers are using convolutional neural networks pre-trained on faces from the largest visual database of families to date, to identify people's relatives.
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A Self-Driving Truck Delivered Butter from California to Pennsylvania in Three Days
Startup Plus.ai has completed the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck.
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Advanced Technology May Indicate How Brain Learns Faces
Researchers have demonstrated that deep convolutional neural networks operate similarly to the way human brains do, in terms of identifying faces.
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Spying on Hippos with Drones to Help Conservation
Researchers in Australia are using drones to help conservation efforts for hippos.
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A Sobering Message About the Future at AI's Biggest Party
Leaders in artificial intelligence warn that progress is slowing, big challenges remain, and simply throwing more computers at a problem isn't sustainable.
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Introducing the AI Index 2019 Report
The AI Index 2019 Report is an independent initiative within Stanford University's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute, the result of a collaborative...
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Killer Robots Aren’t Regulated. Yet.
"Killing in the Age of Algorithms" is a New York Times documentary examining the future of artificial intelligence and warfare.
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