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Happy with a 20% Chance of Sadness
In the winter of 1994, a young man in his early twenties named Tim was a patient in a London psychiatric hospital.
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AI Makes New Video Games by Watching People Play Super Mario, Kirby
A machine learning system taught itself the basics of video game design by watching videos of people playing games.
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Efforts to Acknowledge the Risks of New AI Technology
The ACM Future of Computing Academy is calling for researchers to specify the potentially negative societal aspects of artificial intelligence technologies, as...
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Army Scientists Develop Computational Model to Predict Human Behavior
U.S. Army Research Laboratory scientists have developed an analytic model to show how groups of people influence the behavior of individuals.
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Building a Fly Brain in a Computer
Researchers have built a neural network that mimics the fruit fly's visual system, and can distinguish and re-identify flies.
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China Rattles Washington's Tech Debates
A common thread is running through nearly every tech debate in Washington these days: fear that an ambitious China is poised to win the next wave of technology....
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Bible Helps AI Gain in Translation
Dartmouth College researchers used the Bible to improve computer-based text translation.
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Tiny Drones Team p to Open Doors
Researchers have developed palm-sized drones that can forcefully tug objects 40 times their own mass by anchoring themselves to the ground or to walls.
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Self-Driving Car Dilemmas Reveal That Moral Choices Are Not niversal
The largest-ever multinational survey on machine ethics found many moral precepts that guide a driver's decisions are not universal.
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Bot Disguised as a Human Software Developer Fixes Bugs
A new software bot can find bugs in code and write patches with effectiveness comparable to that of human developers.
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AI, Explain Yourself
It is increasingly important to understand how artificial intelligence comes to a decision.
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A New Movement in Seismology
Unused telecom fiber might be used to detect earthquakes, uncover other secrets in the soil.
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What Comes After the Roomba?
It has been 16 years since the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner was introduced by iRobot.
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Baidu's AI Can Do Simultaneous Translation Between Any Two Languages
Would-be travelers of the galaxy, rejoice: The Chinese tech giant Baidu has invented a translation system that brings us one step closer to a software Babel fish...
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The Computer Chauffeur Is Creeping Closer
With artificial intelligence discreetly improving driving safety, the technology is likely to find its way into luxury vehicles.
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Brain-Inspired Algorithm Helps AI Systems Multitask and Remember
Researchers have found that adapting a well-known brain mechanism can dramatically improve the ability of artificial neural networks to learn multiple tasks.
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Will There Be a Ban on Killer Robots?
A group of arms control advocates, humans rights groups, and technologists is lobbying the United Nations to craft a global decree that bans autonomous weapons....
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Automated System Identifies Dense Tissue, a Risk Factor for Breast Cancer, in Mammograms
A new automated system assesses dense breast tissue in mammograms as reliably as human radiologists.
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AI on a MEMS Device Brings Neuromorphic Computing to the Edge
Researchers have outfitted a micro-electromechanical system with artificial intelligence, enabling neuromorphic computing in a microscale device and bringing edge...
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