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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Nasa Mars Rover Opportunity Climbs to High Point on Rim
After completing two drives this week, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has paused to photograph the panoramic vista from the highest point the rover has...
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Robots Are Sneaking p On Congress (along with Four Other Tech Trends)
One of the best Twitter accounts inside the Beltway or out—belongs to former representativeJohn Dingell (D-Mich.), who announced his retirement with self-effacing...
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No Need to Panic--Artificial Intelligence Has Yet to Create a Doomsday Machine
University of Sheffield professor Tony Prescott says the day people create dangerous artificial intelligence is far off.
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Artificial Intelligence Experts Sign Open Letter to Protect Mankind from Machines
The Future of Life Institute wants humanity to tread lightly while on the road to really smart, and not so cuddly, robots.
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This Computer Knows When to Hold 'em, Knows When to Fold 'em
Card sharks, beware. A new program cannot be beaten at a variety of poker called heads-up limit Texas Hold 'em—at least in a human lifetime—a team of computer scientists...
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Nvidia Demos a Car Computer Trained with 'deep Learning'
Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior, such as automatic braking or steering to avoid an...
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Robots Do Kitchen Duty With Cooking Video Dataset
Researchers have built a self-learning robot that was able to improve its cooking skills by watching YouTube videos.
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A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers
Sometimes I think of school as an overlapping set of calendars.
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Simple Pictures That State-of-the-Art AI Still Can't Recognize
Look at these black and yellow bars and tell me what you see.
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How to Design the Fighter Cockpit of Tomorrow
If you think your office needs a lick of paint and some new furniture, spare a thought for fighter pilots.
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Brainstormers: Obama's Big Research Push Kicks Off With a Meeting of the Minds
The motley group included men and women, old and young, in sweatshirts and three-piece suits, shod in socks and sandals, wingtips and heels.
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Speech Recognition Better Than a Human's Exists. You Just Can't se It Yet
Researchers say recent breakthroughs in speech recognition and artificial intelligence will soon make gadgets dramatically better at understanding people.
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2014 in Computing: Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence
The holy grail of artificial intelligence—creating software that comes close to mimicking human intelligence—remains far off. But 2014 saw major strides in machine...
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One Day, Robots May Work in Zones Too Dangerous For Humans
Teams of roboticists from around the world will be competing in the DARPA Robotics Challenge next year, seeking a $2 million prize for advancements that one day...
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A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
When in 2012 a computer learned to recognize cats in YouTube videos and just last month another correctly captioned a photo of "a group of young people playing...
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Smart Transportation Networks Drive Gains
Transportation engineers and city planners are looking to information technology to redefine traffic management in urban areas. With the opportunity, however, comes...
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In One Aspect of Vision, Computers Catch p to Primate Brain
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have found the most recent version of deep neural networks match the primate brain.
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Google Seeks Partners For Self-Driving Car
Google is seeking auto industry partners in its efforts to produce a fully autonomous car.
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The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots
If and when we finally encounter aliens, they probably won't look like little green men, or spiny insectoids.
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