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Intelligence Too Big For a Single Machine
Ever since the computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence in 1955, the field has gone through cycles of boundless optimism and sobering...
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Submarines for Saturn, Comet Hitchhikers, Asteroid Wranglers and Other Space Fantasies
If you thought Elon Musk was the only person coming up with innovative ideas for the exploration of outer space, you'd be wrong.
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Waterloo Researchers Find 'magic' Ingredient For Quantum Computing
Quantum contextuality is a key requirement for universal quantum computation, researchers say.
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Judge Weighs In on Chatbot’s Turing Test Performance
One of the Turing Test’s judges looks at the test, its results, and what they mean.
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Sound Clue in Hunt For Mh370
Researchers are exploring what may be the first promising lead in months in the search for the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
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Nasa Instruments on Rosetta Start Comet Science
Three NASA science instruments aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the first to orbit a comet and land a probe on...
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Time Travel: Installing an Atomic Clock at 15,000 Feet
A few months ago I went to Cambridge, Mass. to check in with the Event Horizon Telescope crew and found Shep Doeleman, the project leader, fresh off the completion...
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Ambitious Plans For Brain Project Unveiled
A working group of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) presented a ten-year plan for the agency's portion of a major neuroscience initiative announced last...
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If Robots Drove, How Much Safer Would Roads Be?
Human error is the culprit in 93 percent of automobile crashes—including the pileup last weekend that left Tracy Morgan in critical condition, caused, prosecutors...
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Discovery Opens New Path to Superfast Quantum Computing
Researchers have used a super-cold cloud of atoms to perceive a quantum phenomenon predicted 60 years ago, opening a new experimental path to quantum computing. ...
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What Comes After the Turing Test?
Over the weekend, the news broke that a "supercomputer" program called "Eugene Goostman"—an impersonation of a wisecracking, thirteen-year-old Ukranian boy—had...
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How Online 'chatbots' Are Already Tricking You
Sometimes it's the promise of sex that fools you.
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Paper Planes Transform Into Tiny Drones
It took Chuck Pell less than a minute to build his drone.
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Think Fast, Robot
One of the reasons we don't yet have self-driving cars and mini-helicopters delivering online purchases is that autonomous vehicles tend not to perform well under...
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Turing Test Breakthrough as Super-Computer Becomes First to Convince US It's Human
A program that convinced humans it was a 13-year-old boy has become the first computer ever to pass the Turing Test.
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World Cup Kickoff Looms For Demo of Brain-Controlled Machine
During the World Cup next week, there may be 1 minute during the opening ceremony when the boisterous stadium crowd in São Paulo falls silent: when a paraplegic...
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How Ebay's Research Laboratories Are Tackling the Tricky Task of Fashion Recommendations
If you've ever puzzled over what to wear in the morning, you might also have wondered whether you could leave the choice to an algorithm that could recommend a...
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Theoretical Physics: Complexity on the Horizon
When physicist Leonard Susskind gives talks these days, he often wears a black T-shirt proclaiming "I ♥ Complexity".
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Robots: Can We Trust Them with Our Privacy?
Joss Wright is training a robot to freak people out.
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