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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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To Get Truly Smart, AI Might Need to Play More Video Games
The latest computer games can be fantastically realistic.
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What Google's Winning Go Algorithm Will Do Next
Following the defeat of one of its finest human players, the ancient game of Go has joined the growing list of tasks at which computers perform better than humans...
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How Google's AI Viewed the Move No Human Could nderstand
The move didn't make sense to the humans packed into the sixth floor of Seoul's Four Seasons hotel. But the Google machine saw it quite differently.
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New Learning Procedure For Neural Networks
Max Planck Institute researcher Robert Gutig has used a computer model to develop a new learning procedure for neural networks.
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The .s. Government Launches a $100-Million 'apollo Project of the Brain'
A new $100-million project will reverse-engineer a section of the brain in order to improve machine-learning and artificial-intelligence algorithms.
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One-in-Three Developers Fear AI Will Replace Them
A survey of developers found nearly a third identify the most worrisome part of their careers as the potential to be replaced by artificial intelligence.
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Facebook's AI Is Learning Language By Reading Loads of Children's Books
Facebook is using data from children's books to train its artificial intelligence system, and one of the system's focal points is understanding natural language...
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The .s. Government Launches a $100-Million 'apollo Project of the Brain'
Three decades ago, the U.S. government launched the Human Genome Project, a 13-year endeavor to sequence and map all the genes of the human species.
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Leaf Mysteries Revealed Through the Computer's Eye
A computer-vision method has enabled an international team of researchers to quickly classify leaves and generate vast quantities of new botanical data.
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Quantum Mechanics Is So Weird That Scientists Need AI to Design Experiments
University of Vienna researchers have developed an algorithm that helps design experiments in quantum optics.
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China Is Building a Big Data Platform For 'precrime'
It's "precrime" meets "thoughtcrime."
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Google’s AI Wins First Game in Historic Match With Go Champion
Google’s Go-playing computer system has beaten one of the world’s top players in the first game of a five-game match in Seoul.
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Taking Baby Steps Toward Software That Reasons Like Humans
Richard Socher appeared nervous as he waited for his artificial intelligence program to answer a simple question: "Is the tennis player wearing a cap?"
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Conversing With Computers
University of Southern California researchers are developing high-speed language-processing systems that rival the speed and efficiency of human speakers.
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How to Tame Your Robot
Carnegie Mellon University researcher Madeline Gannon has created the means to instruct a robot to perform tasks by following a human coder's motions.
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The Promise of Artificial Intelligence nfolds in Small Steps
Venture capital investors poured $8.5 billion into artificial intelligence start-ups last year.
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Report Cites Dangers of Autonomous Weapons
The report warns about a range of real-world risks associated with weapons systems that are completely autonomous.
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Google nveils Neural Network with 'superhuman' Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image
Here's a tricky task. Pick a photograph from the Web at random. Now try to work out where it was taken using only the image itself.
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Deep or Shallow, NLP Is Breaking Out
Neural net advances improve computers' language ability in many fields.
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