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New AI Can Tell If a Person Is Male or Female by Reading Their Smile
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New AI Can Tell If a Person Is Male or Female by Reading Their Smile

A new artificial intelligence system that identifies gender by reading a person's smiles.

'Body on a Chip' Could Improve Drug Evaluation
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'Body on a Chip' Could Improve Drug Evaluation

A microfluidic platform links engineered tissues from multiple human organs to replicate organ-drug interactions so medications' effects on different parts of the...

Pentagon Wants Silicon Valley’s Help on A.I.
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Pentagon Wants Silicon Valley’s Help on A.I.

There is little doubt that the Defense Department needs help from Silicon Valley's biggest companies as it pursues work on artificial intelligence. The question...

Expert Says Graduates in AI Should Take Oath: 'I Must Not Play at God nor Let My Technology Do So'
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Expert Says Graduates in AI Should Take Oath: 'I Must Not Play at God nor Let My Technology Do So'

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence CEO Oren Etzioni suggests artificial intelligence should be "developed from a higher moral ground today."

AI Assistants Say Dumb Things, and We're About to Find Out Why
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AI Assistants Say Dumb Things, and We're About to Find Out Why

A new test will pose elementary-school-level multiple-choice science questions to artificial intelligence systems.

Cracking Open the Black Box of AI with Cell Biology
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Cracking Open the Black Box of AI with Cell Biology

The deep neural networks that power today's artificial intelligence systems work in mysterious ways.

­TSA Researchers Want to Teach Computers to Learn Like Humans
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­TSA Researchers Want to Teach Computers to Learn Like Humans

Researchers have created a new cloud-based learning platform for artificial intelligence designed to teach machines to learn like humans.

Mechanical Harvesting of Papayas Might Be a Reality With Computational Technique
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Mechanical Harvesting of Papayas Might Be a Reality With Computational Technique

Researchers are investigating how papayas could be harvested mechanically using algorithms and computer vision.

Developers Love Trendy New Languages but Earn More with Functional Programming
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Developers Love Trendy New Languages but Earn More with Functional Programming

Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow performs an annual survey to find out more about the programmer community, and the latest set of results has just been published...

Teaching Computers to Guide Science: New Machine Learning Method Sees the Forests and the Trees
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Teaching Computers to Guide Science: New Machine Learning Method Sees the Forests and the Trees

Researchers have created a novel machine learning method that enables scientists to derive insights from highly complex systems in record time.

AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix
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AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix

Deep neural network software driving innovation in consumer gadgets and automated driving is vulnerable to sabotage by hallucination, experts say.

The New ­.S.-China Rivalry: A Technology Race
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The New ­.S.-China Rivalry: A Technology Race

As the United States and China look to protect their national security needs and economic interests, the fight between the two financial superpowers is increasingly...

The Key to the Perfect March Madness Bracket: Evolution
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The Key to the Perfect March Madness Bracket: Evolution

Predicting the winners and losers of March Madness is such a daunting challenge that it attracts math nerds like Starfleet voyagers lining up at Comic-Con.

China Eyes 'Black Tech' to Boost Security as Parliament Meets
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China Eyes 'Black Tech' to Boost Security as Parliament Meets

At a highway check point on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features...

AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix
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AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix

Tech companies are rushing to infuse everything with artificial intelligence, driven by big leaps in the power of machine learning software. But the deep-neural...

Stanford Researchers Develop Technique to See Objects Hidden Around Corners
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Stanford Researchers Develop Technique to See Objects Hidden Around Corners

Stanford University researchers have developed laser-based imaging technology that can produce images of objects hidden from view around corners.

New Low Light Camera Tech Will Improve AR Apps, Facial Recognition in Smartphones
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New Low Light Camera Tech Will Improve AR Apps, Facial Recognition in Smartphones

Researchers in Israel have developed new imaging software that could help improve facial recognition systems and augmented reality apps on smartphones.

Baidu's New AI Can Mimic Your Voice After Listening to It for Just One Minute
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Baidu's New AI Can Mimic Your Voice After Listening to It for Just One Minute

Researchers at Chinese search giant Baidu say they have developed an artificial intelligence that can learn to precisely mimic a person's voice.

Google Researchers Are Learning How Machines Learn
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Google Researchers Are Learning How Machines Learn

Machines are starting to learn tasks on their own. They are identifying faces, recognizing spoken words, reading medical scans and even carrying on their own conversations...

AI's Dirty Little Secret: It's Powered by People
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AI's Dirty Little Secret: It's Powered by People

There's a dirty little secret about artificial intelligence: It's powered by hundreds of thousands of real people.
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