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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Computing Scenarios for Defusing Polarized Politics
Researchers used agent-based modeling to explore political polarization in the U.S. and possible preventive approaches.
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Robot Plays Table Tennis After 90 Minutes of Training
Researchers developed a computer simulation that taught a virtual robot arm outfitted with a table tennis racket how to return virtual ping pong balls.
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Group Backed by Top Companies Moves to Combat AI Bias in Hiring
Major employers in a variety of industries have signed up with the Data & Trust Alliance in an effort to prevent bias in artificial intelligence software used for...
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Reddit-trained AI Warns Researchers About...Itself
"AI will never be ethical," argued the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model.
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Quenching the Flames: AI, Data Help Fight Global Wildfires
New technologies are being deployed to predict, monitor, and fight wildfires as their frequency and ferocity grow.
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The Movement to Hold AI Accountable Gains More Steam
A New York City law requires algorithms used in hiring to be "audited" for bias. It's the first in the US—and part of a larger push toward regulation.
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The Head of the CIA Says It's Been Doing Mysterious Cryptocurrency Work
Naturally, rumors are spreading about the origins of Bitcoin.
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Australia's AI Cameras Catch Over 270,000 Drivers Using Phones
Artificial intelligence-equipped cameras have spotted more than 270,000 drivers using phones while driving in New South Wales, Australia, since March 2020.
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DeepMind AI Helps Study Strange Electrons in Chemical Reactions
Strange fractional electrons are crucial to many chemical reactions, but traditional methods cannot model them, a problem DeepMind used machine learning to fix....
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America Needs AI Literacy Now
Seventy percent of study participants believe AI is a single program that can perform a broad range of tasks, like autocompleting sentences.
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Building Human-Robot Relationships Through Music and Dance
A performance called FOREST is exploring trust through creative collaboration.
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Taking Some Guesswork Out of Drug Discovery
The deep learning GeoMol model can rapidly predict the three-dimensional shapes of drug-like molecules, which could expedite drug discovery.
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How Australian Police will Use DNA Sequencing to Predict What Suspects Look Like
The technology, seen as a "gamechanger" for forensic science, raises privacy and racial profiling issues.
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Bots Talk Like Humans but Their Cloned Personalities Give Them Away
Researchers explored social spambots' behavior on social media, interaction with genuine accounts, and current bot technologies' capabilities.
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AI Has Learned to Read Time on Analog Clock
Artificial intelligence trained on computer-generated images of analog clocks captured at different angles learned to read the time.
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Robotaxis Roaming Around Yokohama Are Winning Over Unlikely Fans
The Nissan demonstration is the largest of its type in Japan to date.
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AI Finds Superbug-Killing Potential in Human Proteins
A team scoured the human proteome for antimicrobial molecules and found thousands, plus a surprise about how animals evolved to fight infections.
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Working of Algorithms Used in Government Decision-Making to Be Revealed
A new U.K. government standard for transparency requires ministers and public entities to disclose the underlying architecture of algorithms they use for decision...
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AI Helps Craft New Beers
Machine learning and neural networks can help manage the recipes for new beers, and predict how they will taste.
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