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Researchers nveil AI System That Predicts Problems During Surgery
A new artificial intelligence system uses patient data to predict whether patients are at risk of abnormally low blood oxygen (hypoxia) during surgery.
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How Robots and Drones Will Change Retail Forever
The world's companies are in the initial stages of what might be called the "physical cloud," an e-commerce ecosystem that functions like the Internet.
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Shaken by Hype, Self-Driving Leaders Adopt New Strategy: Shutting p
Three former executives at Google, Tesla and Uber who once raced to be the first to develop self-driving cars have adopted a new strategy: Slow down. And shut up...
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How Political Campaigns Weaponize Social Media Bots
In the summer of 2017, a group of young political activists in the United Kingdom figured out how to use the popular dating app Tinder to attract new supporters...
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AI on a MEMS Device Brings Neuromorphic Computing to the Edge
In order to achieve the edge computing that people talk about in a host of applications including 5G networks and the Internet of Things (IoT), you need to pack...
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Open Source Platform Launched to Help Bring GP Acceleration to Data Analytics
Several collaborating organizations have launched a new open source platform for data science and machine learning.
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Detecting Mental Illness by Watching You Type
Show us how you type, and artificial intelligence may be able to identify whether you suffer from a brain disorder.
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MIT Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1B
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced a plan to establish a new artificial intelligence college.
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Watching YouTube Videos May Someday Let Robots Copy Humans
Researchers have trained a neural network to reconstruct human acrobatics in YouTube video clips and manipulate a simulated humanoid to ape those movements.
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Neural Networks Don't nderstand What Optical Illusions Are
Researchers have found that machine vision systems cannot process optical illusions in the same way humans can.
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An Evaluation of the Accuracy-Efficiency Tradeoffs of Neural Language Models
Researchers studying the accuracy-efficiency tradeoffs of neural language models have proposed a simple technique to recover some perplexity using negligible memory...
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Google to Release DeepMind's StreetLearn for Teaching Machine Learning Agents to Navigate Cities
Google is preparing a November release of its DeepMind unit's StreetLearn dataset for training machine learning models to navigate cities without a map.
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Learning to se Data Better
Using artificial intelligence to process medical sensor data can have great impact on health-related costs and outcomes.
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As Companies Embrace AI, It's a Job-Seeker's Market
Dozens of employers looking to hire the next generation of tech employees descended on the University of California, Berkeley in September to meet students at an...
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From Rat Brains to Cancer Cells, T Professor Improves Imaging Techniques
The University of Texas' Chandrajit Bajaj is developing advanced imaging methods, including software that generates more dynamic images from neurons.
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The Robots Are Coming to Las Vegas
Las Vegas hotels are experimenting with robots and other automation.
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Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women
Amazon discontinued an artificial intelligence recruiting tool its machine learning specialists developed to automate the hiring process because it was biased against...
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HyQ Steps Across Gaps Despite Getting Yanked Around
Researchers used a convolutional neural network to reduce the amount of time the HyQ quadruped robot needs to plan its foot placement by several orders of magnitude...
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AIs Invent Weird New Limbs to Beat Virtual Obstacle Courses
What are the best two legs for running an obstacle course? One leg that crawls at the knee joint, and one massive leg dragged behind for stability like a kangaroo's...
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