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Inspired By Brain's Visual Cortex, New AI tterly Wrecks Captcha Security
Computer algorithms have gotten much better at recognizing patterns, like specific animals or people's faces, allowing software to automatically categorize large...
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Researchers Demonstrate 'mind-Reading' Brain-Decoding Tech
Researchers at Purdue University have demonstrated a method for decoding what the brain is seeing.
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Facebook Research Automatically Creates an Avatar From a Photo
A new machine-learning system can automatically creating the best possible avatar of a person's face from a photo by using a customized emoji generator.
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Robots Won't Take Away Our Jobs, or They Will and It Will Be 'liberating,' Profs Say
Cornell University professor Guy Hoffman called the notion of losing all professions to robots delusional.
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How We Feel About Robots That Feel
Octavia, a humanoid robot designed to fight fires on Navy ships, has mastered an impressive range of facial expressions.
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These Neurons Are Alive and Firing. And You Can Watch Them in 3-D
For patients with epilepsy, or cancerous brain lesions, sometimes the only way to forward is down.
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Machine Learning sed to Predict Earthquakes in a Lab Setting
Researchers say they have trained a machine-learning algorithm to predict future seismic events.
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With Commercial Satellite Imagery, Computer Learns to Quickly Find Missile Sites in China
The U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is calling on the private sector to develop machine-learning tools to automate repetitive and time-consuming image...
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Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords
Roboticists say they now are focused on human-robot interaction in the performance of complex tasks.
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This Company's Robots Are Making Everything, and Reshaping the World
The headquarters of Fanuc sit in the shadow of Mt. Fuji, on a sprawling, secluded campus of 22 windowless factories and dozens of office buildings.
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Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries For Scarce AI Talent
With artificial intelligence expertise in short supply, artificial intelligence talent is commanding huge salaries from the largest technology companies.
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Deepmind Alphago Team Receives Inaugural Ijcai Marvin Minsky Medal For Outstanding Achievements in AI
The DeepMind team will be presented with the award at the IJCAI-2018 conference in Stockholm, Sweden, next July.
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Alphago Zero Shows Machines Can Become Superhuman Without Any Help
DeepMind's upgrade to the AlphaGo algorithm, AlphaGo Zero, beat its predecessor in a 100-game Go match, acquiring skills by playing millions of games against itself...
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sing Artificial Intelligence to Improve Early Breast Cancer Detection
Researchers are working to apply artificial intelligence to improving the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer.
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'low Cost Android' to Study the Brain
Researchers working on the European Union-funded MoCoTi project say they have designed the prototype of an android that learns how to actuate its own limbs.
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The Shape of Work to Come
Last year, entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun set out to augment his sales force with artificial intelligence.
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AI Algorithms Are Starting to Teach AI Algorithms
Artificial intelligence researchers and companies are applying machine learning to automate the more complicated aspects of AI algorithm development.
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Now There's an Iq Test For Siri and Friends
Researchers used an intelligence test they developed to rank intelligent assistants such as Google Assistant and Siri on the same scale used for humans.
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Researchers Create Digital Objects From Incomplete 3D Data
Researchers in Germany say they have developed a computational method for reconstructing a digital object from incomplete images.
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