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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Bill Gates Claims 'ai Dream Is Finally Arriving'--and Says Machines Will Outsmart Humans in Some Areas Within a Decade
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the progress of artificial intelligence ensures machines will be able to outclass humans in certain knowledge areas within...
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How to Build a Moral Robot
With robots expected to play an increasingly critical role in making judgment calls where human lives are at stake, it is imperative to model moral reasoning in...
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Google's Eric Schmidt Says AI Will Make Him Smarter, Cooler
Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt says the next major trend in the technology industry will be artificial intelligence.
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Child's Play: Australia's Newest Roboticists See Eye-to-Eye With R2-D2
Queensland University of Technology's Christina Chalmers says because the growth of robotic coding requires educators to do more to promote student education in...
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Artificial Intelligence Is Far From Matching Humans, Panel Says
Never mind Terminator-like killer robots. Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with more realistic questions like whether their creations will take...
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Meet Terrapattern, Google Earth's Missing Search Engine
"Why don't you click on the tennis court?" Golan Levin, an associate professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University, suggested.
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Checklist of Worst-Case Scenarios Could Help Prepare For Evil AI
University of Louisville researcher Roman Yampolskiy and hacktivist Federico Pistono are examining worst-case scenarios for a potential malevolent artificial intelligence...
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Researchers Teaching Robots to Feel and React to Pain
Researchers are developing an "artificial robot nervous system to teach robots how to feel pain" and quickly react in order to avoid potential damage.
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nveiling the Hidden Layers of Deep Learning
A new method for visualizing the mechanisms and hidden layers of neural networks could provide insights into deep learning.
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Dartmouth Contest Shows Computers Aren't Such Good Poets
In a yearlong Dartmouth College competition, a three-judge panel tried to distinguish between machine- and human-produced sonnets.
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How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
University of Louisville researchers are studying how malevolent artificial intelligenes might be designed, and the conditions in which they might be create.
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How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
The possibility that a malevolent artificial intelligence might pose a serious threat to humankind has become a hotly debated issue.
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Want to Buy a Self-Driving Car? Big-Rig Trucks May Come First
Imagine you are driving on a highway late at night when a big-rig truck closes in behind you.
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Soon We Won't Program Computers. We'll Train Them Like Dogs
Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box.
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Robots Learn How to Make Friends and Influence People
Stanford University researchers have developed a computer-vision algorithm that predicts the movement of people in a busy space.
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Pentagon Turns to Silicon Valley For Edge in Artificial Intelligence
In its quest to maintain a United States military advantage, the Pentagon is aggressively turning to Silicon Valley’s hottest technology—artificial intelligence...
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Ibm's Watson Has a New Project: Fighting Cybercrime
IBM's Watson supercomputer hardly needs any more resumé-padding. It’s already wonJeopardy, written a cookbook, and dabbled in revolutionizing healthcare.
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This Turing Machine Should Run Forever nless Maths Is Wrong
One hundred and fifty years of mathematics will be proved wrong if a new computer program stops running. Thankfully, it's unlikely to happen, but the code behind...
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Algorithm Clones Van Gogh's Artistic Style and Pastes It Onto Other Images, Movies
The nature of artistic style is something of a mystery to most people.
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