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Google Offers New Way to Discover Books, Fun Way to Play With Words
Google recently launched a website to demonstrate the company's progress in semantic search.
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Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos
In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic systems.
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Google's New AI Head Is So Smart He Doesn't Need AI
Google's heavy investment in artificial intelligence has helped the company's software write music and beat humans at complex board games. What unlikely feats could...
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.S. Army Develops Face Recognition Technology That Works in the Dark
A new machine learning and artificial intelligence technique generates a visible face image from a thermal image of a person's face taken at night.
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sing an Algorithm to Reduce Energy Bills—Rain or Shine
Researchers have developed a residential energy scheduling algorithm by training three action dependent heuristic dynamic programming networks.
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Robots Ride to the Rescue Where Workers Can't Be Found
When Zbynek Frolik needed new employees to handle surging orders at his cavernous factories in central Bohemia, he fanned advertisements across the Czech Republic...
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Deep Learning Transforms Smartphone Microscopes Into Laboratory-Grade Devices
Deep learning can discern and enhance microscopic details in smartphone photos, with the potential to transform applications in global health, telemedicine, and...
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Seeding a Level Playing Field for 'Dr. AI'
Algorithms must be trained on current health data to be useful.
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AI Chips May Give You a Real Reason to Upgrade Your Smartphone
You've likely seen artificial intelligence technology spread into apps, devices and services, doing things like recognizing your friends' faces in photos and endowing...
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Scientists Teach Computers How to Analyze Brain Cells
Researchers at the San Francisco-based Gladstone Institutes are studying whether computers can be trained to identify structures in unstained cells.
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How to Catch a Fish Genome With Big Data
Researchers have assembled an annotated genome of the California Yellowtail for the first time.
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Computer-Simulated Soybeans
Washington University in St. Louis researchers have developed a simulation to guide farmers on soybean-planting strategies.
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Artificial Antimicrobial Peptides Could Help Overcome Drug-Resistant Bacteria
A new streamlined approach to developing antimicrobial peptide drugs uses a computer algorithm that mimics natural evolution.
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Trade War or Not, China Is Closing the Gap on .S. in Technology IP Race
China's rising investment in research and expansion of its higher education system mean that it is fast closing the gap with the United States in intellectual property...
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Need a New Look? Facebook's AI Fashion Designer Has Some Ideas
Researchers used generative adversarial networks to produce fashion items including handbags, jumpers, and T-shirts.
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Twenty-Four E Countries Sign Artificial Intelligence Pact in Bid to Compete With .S. & China
Twenty-four countries in the European Union recently signed a declaration to collaborate on a "European approach" to artificial intelligence so they can compete...
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A 200-Year-Old Idea Offers a New Way to Trace Stolen Bitcoins
Researchers are using an 1816 legal precedent to track down stolen bitcoins.
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Beijing Launches Pioneering Brain-Science Centre
Beijing has announced plans to build a brain-science centre that will rival in size some of the world's largest neuroscience organizations. It will also serve as...
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