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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A Great Find
A new algorithm locates objects by leveraging collections of sensors that receive and transmit signals.
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Picture This: A Camera With No Lens
A new camera substitutes a regular pane of glass for the lens, in conjunction with a computer running an algorithm to interpret the images.
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Flint Water Crisis: How AI Is Finding Thousands of Hazardous Pipes
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that can determine the location of dangerous lead pipes in Flint...
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Fake News Detector Algorithm Works Better Than a Human
An algorithm-based system that identifies linguistic cues in fake news stories could provide news aggregators and social media sites with a new weapon against misinformation...
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AI Holds the Better Hand
Exploiting the techniques of game theory to come up with the superior poker hand.
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Robotic Implants
Scientists are developing tiny medical machines that stretch the definition of the term "robot."
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Borders in the Cloud
New data protection laws raise questions about whether certain jurisdictions are trying to thwart the ability of foreign governments to obtain data on their citizens...
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Future Robot Swarms Should Copy Lazy Ants Who Let Others Do the Work
Researchers found insights into ant cooperation could be incorporated into the development of large swarms of robots.
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Google Just Gave Control Over Data Center Cooling to an AI
Google says the cooling systems of several of its data centers are now governed by an artificial intelligence algorithm.
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Out-doctoring the Doctors
Artificial software can outperform human doctors at reading medical imaging.
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Crowdsourcing Algorithms to Predict Epileptic Seizures
More than 10,000 crowdsourced algorithms can enable clinically relevant epileptic seizure prediction across a broad spectrum of patients.
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AI Has a Racial Bias Problem. Google Is Funding Summer Camps to Try to Change That
The Oakland, CA-based nonprofit AI4All will use a $1-million grant from Google.org to broaden its outreach to young underrepresented minorities and women.
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How to Make a Robot se Theory of Mind
Imagine standing in an elevator as the doors begin to close and suddenly seeing a couple at the end of the corridor running toward you.
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Oracle Open-Sources Graphpipe to Make It Easier to Deploy Machine Learning Models
Oracle has released an open-source tool called Graphpipe to facilitate the deployment of machine learning models.
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Replacing Your Boss With a Cruel Robot Could Make You Concentrate More
A mean robot could motivate human employees to improve their cognitive performance, compared to supervision by a friendly robot or no robot supervision, researchers...
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IBM Has a Watson Dilemma
IBM's Watson system is falling short of some expectations for its outcomes in the fight against cancer, with many users citing inaccuracy, susceptibility to error...
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To Get Ready for Robot Driving, Some Want to Reprogram Pedestrians
You're crossing the street wrong.
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Automating Negotiation
Computers are starting to outperform the average human at negotiation.
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How a Computer Learns to Dribble: Practice, Practice, Practice
Researchers have developed a physics-based, real-time method for controlling animated characters that can learn basketball dribbling skills from experience.
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