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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Software Finds the Best Way to Stick a Mars Landing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed software that could inform the selection of landing sites for scientific expeditions to Mars.
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China's Leaders Are Softening Their Stance on AI
China might be at loggerheads with the United States over trade, but it is calling for a friendlier approach to the development of artificial intelligence.
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Chip Ramps p Artificial Intelligence Systems' Performance
Princeton University researchers working with Analog Devices have fabricated an accelerator chip that enhances the performance and efficiency of neural networks...
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Floating Voxels Provide New Hope for 3D Displays
In search of holograms that can be viewed from any angle.
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The Dangers of Automating Social Programs
Is it possible to keep bias out of a social program driven by one or more algorithms?
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Brown Researchers Teach Computers to See Optical Illusions
Brown University researchers have developed a neural network model that can be deceived by optical illusions.
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Over 2,000 European AI Experts Join Hands to Challenge .S., China in Artificial Intelligence
About 2,100 artificial intelligence researchers from 29 European countries have announced a joint research alliance.
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Machine Learning System Tackles Speech and Object Recognition, All at Once
A new system can learn to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image.
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What China Can Teach the .S. About Artificial Intelligence
Visionary research is no longer the most important element of progress.
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2018 AI Predictions: 8 Insights to Shape Business Strategy
Artificial intelligence (AI) is remarkably complex and advancing quickly. It's impossible for anyone to give a precise vision of how the next several years will...
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Creating 3D-Printed 'Motion Sculptures' From 2D Videos
A new algorithm can take two-dimensional videos and turn them into three-dimensionally-printed "motion sculptures" that show how a human body moves through space...
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Mathematicians Calculate the Safest Way Home
Researchers in the U.K. have developed a mobile app that guides pedestrians along the safest, rather than the quickest, route to their destination.
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Pepper-Picking Robot Demonstrates Its Skills in Greenhouse Labor Automation
A team of European Union-funded researchers have developed a sweet pepper-harvesting robot that can help farmers reduce their costs.
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AI Tries Bad Improv Comedy to Trick People Into Thinking It Is Human
Improbotics is an artificial intelligence-based comedy theater that includes a human, a puppet, and a cyborg.
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Putting Answers to the Test
A new algorithm creates plausible answers designed to distract students from the correct answer in multiple choice exams.
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U.S. Tech Giants Eye AI Key to Unlock China Push
U.S. technology giants, facing tighter content rules in China and the threat of a trade war, are targeting an easier way into the world's second largest economy—artificial...
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Report: Machines to Handle Over Half Workplace Tasks by 2025
More than half of all workplace tasks will be completed by machines by 2025, according to a World Economic Forum report.
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Understanding Deep-Sea Images With AI
Researchers have developed a new standardized workflow for sustainable marine image analysis.
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Detecting Illness by Watching You Type
Show us how you type, and artificial intelligence may be able to identify your brain disorder.
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