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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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AI-Controlled Brain Implants For Mood Disorders Tested in People
Brain implants that deliver electrical pulses tuned to a person's feelings and behaviour are being tested in people for the first time. Two teams funded by the...
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This AI Can Spot Art Forgeries By Looking at One Brushstroke
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can identify an art forgery by examining the piece's brush strokes.
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Parallel Computational Thinking
Applications must be programmed to process instructions in parallel to take full advantage of the new multicore processors.
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Gaming Machine Learning
Game simulations are driving improvements in machine learning for autonomous vehicles and other devices.
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This Inquisitive AI Will Kick Your Butt at Battleship
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that can skillfully play a Battleship-like game by determining how to ask questions as efficiently as possible...
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CLA Engineers se Deep Learning to Reconstruct Holograms and Improve Optical Microscopy
Researchers have developed two new uses for machine learning--reconstructing a hologram to form a microscopic image of an object, and improving optical microscopy...
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Can Computers Be Creative?
Pennsylvania State University researchers are training computers to produce original design ideas, in order to determine whetyer they are technically feasible. ...
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Five Technologies That Will Rock Your World
After the Russian hacking of the 2016 election, many people worry that technology has gone too far.
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The Field of AI Research Is About to Get Way Bigger Than Code
The new AI Now Institute is a cross-disciplinary initiative that will research the impact of artificial intelligence on society.
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Improving Clinical Trials With Machine Learning
Machine learning could improve the ability to determine whether a new drug works in the brain, and could enable researchers to detect drug effects missed by conventional...
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Supercomputing Speeds Up Deep Learning Training
A team led by Texas Advanced Computing Center researchers has published the results of an effort to use supercomputers to train a deep neural network for rapid...
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Robots Can Help S Better nderstand How Infants Learn
Johan Kwisthout of Radboud University in the Netherlands' discusses efforts to use robots to replicate the brains infants in order to better understand their learning...
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Stanford Algorithm Can Diagnose Pneumonia Better Than Radiologists
A new deep-learning algorithm that evaluates chest x-rays for signs of disease and can outperform radiologists at diagnosing pneumonia.
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The Power of AI in the Sky
Researchers are using artificial intelligence to sift massive amounts of big data in support of astronomy projects.
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Inside the Mechanical Brain of the World's First Robot Citizen
Hanson Robotics' humanoid robot, Sophia, is defined by creator Ben Goertzel as more of a user interface than a conscious artificial intelligence.
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Researchers Study Human Movement to Build Better Robots
Researchers at Northeastern University are studying how people and robots move independently and in tandem.
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Walk This Way: A Better Way to Identify Gait Differences
Researchers re developing new input/output architectures for convolutional neural network-based cross-view gait recognition by utilizing a Siamese network for verification...
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Training For Artificial Intelligence in Warfare
Governments are taking a closer look at artificial intelligence as a way to further their strategic interests in areas such as national defense.
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Tv Show Gives Computers a Lead in Solving Problems
Researchers have taught artificially intelligent machines to study the TV show "CSI" and identify the perpetrator in each episode.
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