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Novartis, Microsoft Join Forces to Develop Drugs Using AI
Novartis and Microsoft have agreed to a five-year partnership to use artificial intelligence (AI) to develop new drugs faster, and with greater precision.
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Decade of Cybersecurity Data Could Predict Future Malicious Online Activity
Researchers have developed a comprehensive dataset of the global cybersecurity threat landscape from 2007 to 2017, to help cybersecurity specialists derive new...
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France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program
France is set to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to provide its citizens secure digital identities.
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Military Drones Now Common to Nearly 100 Nations, Report Finds
A report by researchers at Bard College's Center for the Study of the Drone estimated that 95 countries currently own unmanned military drones—up from 60 in 2010...
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Lawmakers Warn About Threat of Political Deepfakes by Creating One
Two U.S. congressmen created an artificial intelligence-doctored political video to demonstrate the threat such disinformation presents.
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Ready, Set, Algorithms! Teams Learn AI by Racing Cars
Amazon Web Services developed the DeepRacer League, a competition designed to teach a branch of artificial intelligence known as reinforcement learning.
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When It Comes to Robots, Reliability May Matter More Than Reasoning
A study by U.S. Army Research Laboratory and University of Central Florida found that human confidence in robots decreases after a robot makes a mistake, even when...
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Number Theorist Fears All Published Math Is Wrong
"I think there is a non-zero chance that some of our great castles are built on sand," he said, arguing that we must begin to rely on AI to verify proofs.
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AI Learns to Defy Laws of Physics to Win at Hide-and-Seek
Scientists at the OpenAI artificial intelligence laboratory developed bots that trained themselves to cooperate by playing hide-and-seek.
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AI as Good as Mahler? Austrian Orchestra Performs Symphony with Twist
A researcher at the Ars Electronica Futurelab research center in Austria has used open-source artificial intelligence software to mimic classical symphonies.
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Israeli Researchers Develop AI-Based Cancer Treatment
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based technique for mapping receptors on cancer cells.
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Artificial Intelligence Confronts a 'Reproducibility' Crisis
Machine-learning systems are black boxes even to the researchers that build them. That makes it hard for others to assess the results.
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Körber Prize 2019 for Bernhard Schölkopf
This year, the scientific distinction with the highest prize money in Germany goes to the pioneer of artificial intelligence.
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AI Technology Could Identify Those at Risk of Fatal Heart Attacks, Research Claims
New artificial intelligence technology can help gauge a person's risk for suffering a deadly heart attack, years ahead of time.
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AI Facial Recognition Software Now Works for Wild Chimpanzees, Too
A new facial recognition artificial intelligence program can detect and identify individual chimpanzees captured in video footage recorded in the wild.
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Making AI Systems Fairer Will Require Time, Guidelines
Director Christoph Lütge on the new Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich.
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Robot Pilot That Can Grab the Controls Gets Its License
The ROBOpilot Unmanned Aircraft Conversion System passed the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Practical Test for piloting light aircraft and completed...
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MIT's Fleet of Autonomous Boats Can Now Shapeshift
Scientists have upgraded a fleet of autonomous boats to autonomously disconnect and reassemble into different forms of floating platforms, in the canals of Amsterdam...
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Algorithms Should’ve Made Courts More Fair. What Went Wrong?
A 2011 Kentucky law requires judges to consult an algorithm when deciding whether defendants must post cash bail. More whites were allowed to go home, but not blacks...
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