Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Curbs on A.I. Exports? Silicon Valley Fears Losing Its Edge
A common belief among tech industry insiders is that Silicon Valley has dominated the internet because much of the worldwide network was designed and built by Americans...
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Deep Learning Turns Mono Recordings Into Immersive Sound
Researchers have taught an artificial intelligence system to convert ordinary monaural sounds into nearly three-dimensional sounds.
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How the Artificial-Intelligence Program AlphaZero Mastered Its Games
A few weeks ago, a group of researchers from Google's artificial-intelligence subsidiary, DeepMind, published a paper in the journal Science that described an A...
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AI Can Easily Break Text CAPTCHA
A new machine learning algorithm can crack most text-based CAPTCHAs within 0.05 seconds.
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Advancement of AI Opens Health Data Privacy to Attack
Artificial intelligence innovations have created new threats to health data privacy against which current laws and regulations cannot adequately safeguard.
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Hardware-Software Co-Design Approach Could Make Neural Networks Less Power Hungry
A neuro-inspired hardware-software co-design approach could make neural network training more energy-efficient and faster.
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One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google's parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers...
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How AI Spotted Every Solar Panel in the .S.
Stanford University engineers have developed a method for locating every solar panel in the contiguous U.S.
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These Incredibly Realistic Fake Faces Show How Algorithms Can Now Mess with s
These faces don't seem particularly remarkable. They could easily be taken from, say, Facebook or LinkedIn. In reality, they were dreamed up by a new kind of AI...
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How Computers Got Shockingly Good at Recognizing Images
Right now, I can open up Google Photos, type "beach," and see my photos from various beaches I've visited over the last decade.
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Robot Hand That Plays Jingle Bells Could Help Make Better Limbs
It's not the best version of Jingle Bells you'll ever hear—it's being played by a rubber robot hand. But the hand could point the way to better designs for robot...
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China's Tech Giants Want to Go Global. Just One Thing Might Stand in Their Way.
In the early 1980s, a cluster of fledging computer companies opened up shop in a chaotic corner of northwest Beijing, near the campuses of Peking and Tsinghua Universities...
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Deep Learning Technique Reveals 'Invisible' Objects in the Dark
Engineers used a deep neural network to train a computer to reconstruct transparent objects from images captured in almost total darkness.
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Consumer Rating Algorithms Score Big with Businesses, Governments
Businesses, universities, and governments increasingly are turning to algorithms to make crucial decisions about how to treat customers and citizens.
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Nurse Robot Moxi Gets Schooled by Texas Nurses
A robot designed to test collaborative automation integration in a working medical facility recently concluded its first real-world trial in a Texas hospital.
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Who Owns 3D Scans of Historic Sites?
Three-dimensional scanning can be used to protect or rebuild historic structures, but who owns that digital data?
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Hidden Messages Fool AI
Forced errors focus attention on neural network quirks.
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Quantum Leap
A new proof supports a 25-year-old claim of the unique power of quantum computing.
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AI Has Some Explaining to Do
Software makers offer more transparent machine-learning tools—but there's a trade-off.
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