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New Data Could Help Siri, Alexa Know When They're Being Unhelpful
A new dataset is designed to train artificial intelligence systems to recognize when they lack sufficient information to answer questions accurately.
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SDSC Comet and Machine Learning Simulates H2O With 'nprecedented Accuracy'
Researchers used machine learning techniques and a supercomputer to develop the most accurate models to date for simulations of water.
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Everything Big Data Claims to Know About You Could Be Wrong
A new study suggests big-data analysis may yield inaccurate representations about people.
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Deepfake Videos Are Getting Impossibly Good
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based system that uses input video to create photorealistic reanimations of portrait videos.
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A Robot Has Performed Eye Surgery on Humans for the First Time
Researchers used a robot developed to can perform eye surgery on humans to help six patients who needed a membrane removed from their retina to improve their vision...
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Underwater Robot Finds Second World War Bomber Plane on Seabed
Harvey Mudd College researchers have developed a novel autonomous underwater vehicle that can explore the sea floor looking for signs of wrecked ships.
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This Algorithm Can Tell Which Number Sequences a Human Will Find Interesting
A new machine learning algorithm can spot specific patterns in mathematical structures and apply them to extract interesting sequences from randomly generated ones...
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New AI System Can Imagine What It Hasn't Seen
"Before we work on artificial intelligence, why don't we do something about natural stupidity?" computer scientist Steve Polyak once joked.
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Computer Algorithms Can Test the Dodginess of Published Results
Researchers have developed a method for algorithmically gauging manipulation of published scientific results.
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AI Drone Learns to Detect Brawls
Researchers used deep learning to develop a drone surveillance system that automatically detects small groups of people fighting each other.
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Forgotten Corner of Europe Brought Back to Life, Thanks to AI
Researchers used artificial intelligence methods to learn of previously unknown political and cultural events which took place in a forgotten corner of the Austrian...
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Anti-Swearing AI Takes the Edge Off Abuse on Reddit and Twitter
IBM researchers have developed a system that translates offensive comments on social media into more polite language, while keeping the content intact.
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Computer Program Looks Five Minutes Into the Future
Self-learning software can predict actions five minutes into the future by first learning typical sequences of events from video footage, and then predicting actions...
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New Algorithm Fuses Quality, Quantity in Satellite Imagery
University of Illinois researchers have developed an algorithm that combines high-resolution and high-frequency satellite data into one integrated product.
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Robots Learn by Checking in on Team Members
Engineers have enabled teamwork between unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Watch Real Football Matches in Miniature Played on Your Desk
Researchers have taught a machine learning neural network algorithm to render two-dimensional video clips posted on YouTube as three-dimensional images.
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AI Could Get 100 Times More Energy-Efficient with IBM's New Artificial Synapses
Neural networks are the crown jewel of the AI boom. They gorge on data and do things like transcribe speech or describe images with near-perfect accuracy (see "10...
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New Machine Learning Approach Could Accelerate Bioengineering
A team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has developed a predictive machine learning method to speed the design of biofuel-generating microbes.
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China's Schools Are Quietly sing AI to Mark Students' Essays ... but Do the Robots Make the Grade?
A quarter of schools in China are testing a device that uses artificial intelligence to grade students' essays.
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