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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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Making Computers Explain Themselves
Researchers have developed a method for training neural networks so they provide not only predictions and classifications, but also rationales for their decisions...
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Supercomputing the P53 Protein as a Promising Anticancer Therapy
University of California, San Diego professor Rommie Amaro is using a supercomputer to model the tumor suppression protein p53.
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Playing Grand Theft Auto Can Teach Autonomous Cars How to Drive
Self-driving cars can learn the rules of the road by studying virtual traffic on videogames such as Grand Theft Auto V, according to a new study.
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Beyond Silicon: Squeezing More Out of Chips
Ali Farhadi holds a puny $5 computer, called a Raspberry Pi, comfortably in his palm and exults that his team of researchers has managed to squeeze into it a powerful...
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Robot Learns to Play With Lego By Watching Human Teachers
Researchers from the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology in Germany have trained a robot to play with Legos by having it observe two people build a Lego...
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How AI Is Shaking p the Chip Market
In less than 12 hours, three different people offered to pay me if I'd spend an hour talking to a stranger on the phone.
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Google Teaches 'ais' to Invent Their Own Crypto and Avoid Eavesdropping
Google Brain has created two artificial intelligences that evolved their own cryptographic algorithm to protect their messages from a third AI, which was trying...
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Robotic Tutors For Primary School Children
Researchers in Spain have developed an integrated computational architecture for use with software applications in schools.
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Learning Securely
Because it is easy to fool, machine learning must be taught how to handle adversarial inputs.
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New Method Reduces Amount of Training Data Needed For Facial Performance Capture System
Disney Research has developed a facial-capture system that uses a sample of actors' recordings to synthetically generate the data needed to train the system.
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Computer Vision Leader Fei-Fei Li on Why AI Needs Diversity
As artificial intelligence technologies increasingly are deployed to meet industrial and personal needs, the field will need to address its lack of ethnic and gender...
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The Pentagon has made artificial intelligence the core of its agenda to maintain the U.S. position as the world's leading military power.
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The small drone, with its six whirring rotors, swept past the replica of a Middle Eastern village and closed in on a mosque-like structure, its camera scanning...
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AI Experts Weigh in on the White House Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence experts stress the need for clarity around certain economic and safety ramifications of artificial intelligence technologies.
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Stephen Hawking Opens British Artificial Intelligence Hub
Stephen Hawking on Wednesday opened an artificial research center at Cambridge University in the U.K.
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Mit's 'moral Machine' Crowdsources Decisions About Autonomous Driving, but Experts Call It Misguided
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab's "Moral Machine" platform lets the public judge the types of ethical decisions autonomous vehicles should make...
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Preparing For the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Considering the utilization, opportunities, and future challenges of Artificial Intelligence.
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Stepping p Security For an Internet-of-Things World
As the Internet of things moves closer to realization, initiatives must be taken to ensure the technology is secure, says Michael Walker at DARPA. "If we want...
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How Vector Space Mathematics Helps Machines Spot Sarcasm
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay led by Aditya Joshi report developing a new strategy to help computers better detect the presence of sarcasm...
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