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AI-Powered Brain Surgery Becomes A Reality In Hong Kong
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, completed successful trials of a robot that treats brain tumors.
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How Do We Know How Smart AI Systems Are?
A tradition in AI is to give systems tests designed to assess human intelligence, but there are several reasons we should be cautious in interpreting this as evidence...
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Computer Vision That Works More Like a Brain Sees More Like People Do
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers trained an artificial neural network to function like the brain's inferior temporal cortex to improve computer...
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AI Robots Could Play Future Role as Companions in Care Homes
Artificial intelligence-powered social robots could help care for the sick and aged in the future.
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Automated Evolution Tackles Tough Tasks
Reinforcement learning groups unlabeled data into sets of likes, with the goal of maximizing the cumulative rewards it receives from a human-wrought evaluation...
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FTC Investigating Whether ChatGPT Harms Consumers
The agency's demand for OpenAI's documents about AI risks mark the company's greatest U.S. regulatory threat to date.
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AI Is Making Politics Easier, Cheaper and More Dangerous
Voters are already seeing AI-generated campaign materials — and likely don't know it.
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Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism
Anthropic, a safety-focused A.I. start-up, is trying to compete with ChatGPT while preventing an A.I. apocalypse. It's been a little stressful.
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Natural World Empowers Future of Computer Vision
An open source software system aims to improve the training of computer vision systems by quickly generating an unlimited number of photorealistic scenes of the...
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Buddying Up to AI
Artificial Intelligence-based companions and chatbots allow people to form deep connections through long-term interactions.
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As Businesses Clamor for Workplace A.I., Tech Companies Rush to Provide It
Amazon, Box, Salesforce, Oracle, and others have recently rolled out A.I.-related products to help workplaces become more efficient and productive.
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U.S. Military Takes Generative AI Out for a Spin
The U.S. Department of Defense is testing five large language models as part of an effort to develop data integration and digital platforms for military use.
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How Easy Is It to Fool A.I.-Detection Tools?
The detectors ignore all context clues, so they don't process the existence of a lifelike automaton in a photo with Mr. Musk as unlikely.
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AI Bias: Challenges and Solutions
Where does bias in artificial intelligence come from; once we find it, how can we reduce or eliminate it?
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Will Robots Triumph Over World Cup Winners by 2050?
The RoboCup dream has inspired generations of roboticists.
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Tour de France Adds ChatGPT, Digital Twin Tech
Japan-based information technology and services company NTT said this year's Tour de France will incorporate ChatGPT and "the world's largest connected stadium."...
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Robot Takes Podium as Orchestra Conductor in Seoul
An android robot engineered by South Korea's Korea Institute of Industrial Technology recently conducted that country’s national orchestra at Seoul's National Theater...
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Barred from Grocery Stores by Facial Recognition
The use of facial recognition by private businesses in the U.K. is on the rise.
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Turning Old Maps into 3D Digital Models of Lost Neighborhoods
Researchers have converted old Sanborn Fire Insurance maps into three-dimensional digital models of historic neighborhoods with a new machine learning technique...
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