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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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AI Powers Autonomous Materials Discovery
Cornell University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that aims to speed up the process of materials discovery.
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Human Induced Cells Grown in Petri Dish Learn to Play Pong Faster Than AI
Researchers at Cortical Labs in Australia demonstrated that human-induced neurons grown in a petri dish can be taught to play the retro videogame Pong in only five...
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Using Sparse Data to Predict Lab Quakes
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a machine learning approach that can predict fault slip in laboratory earthquakes with reliability...
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Toyota Gives Robots a Soft Touch, Better Vision
Researchers at the Toyota Research Institute have developed a soft touch sensing gripper that helps robots determine the right amount of force to grip and help...
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Levi's AI Chief Says Algorithms Have Helped Boost Revenue
Artificial intelligence and a data repository built on Google Cloud have helped Levi Strauss & Co. improve revenue and profitability, says chief strategy and AI...
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Medical AI, Radiologist Experts May Be Vulnerable to Adversarial Attacks
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and from China deceived an artificial intelligence (AI) breast cancer diagnosis model and human specialists with doctored...
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World's First Autonomous Oil Rig Drills First Well
Oil and gas drilling contractor Nabors Industries drilled its first well in West Texas' Permian Basin using its Pace-R801 autonomous rig.
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Different Strokes: Using AI to Tell Art Apart
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that can distinguish between the brush strokes of different artists...
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AI Can Predict Who Will Develop Dementia with 92% Accuracy
The technique works by spotting patterns linked to dementia outcome in data.
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Is Artificial Intelligence About to Transform the Mammogram?
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher who survived breast cancer has devised a technique that seems to predict many breast cancer cases.
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Train-Cleaning Robots Protect Staff, Prevent Delays
Scientists at Scotland's Heriot-Watt University and University of Edinburgh have developed train-cleaning robots to shield staff against infections and prevent...
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ML Speeds Up Vehicle Routing
A new machine learning approach could speed up vehicle routing algorithms, which tend to slow down when applied to large urban datasets.
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The Future of Robot Nannies
A machine can't love our children, but our children might love them.
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What Does It Mean for AI to Understand?
It's simple enough for AI to seem to comprehend data, but devising a true test of a machine's knowledge has proved difficult.
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ML Flags Remedies That Might Do More Harm Than Good
Scientists designed a machine learning model to identify medical treatments that could pose greater potential danger than alternatives.
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Shrinking Artificial Intelligence
Energy concerns push AI optimizations to the edge.
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See Little Robots Get Swole in This Virtual 'Gym'
The bizarre robots look like cobbled-together Tetris pieces. A new system "evolves" them to run, climb, and throw stuff better.
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Engineers Teach AI to Navigate Ocean with Minimal Energy
Artificial intelligence technology is being used to enable autonomous drones exploring the deep ocean to navigate using currents instead of fighting them.
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