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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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UNESCO Member States Adopt Global Agreement on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
The agreement aims to realize the advantages artificial intelligence brings to society, and to reduce the risks it entails.
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Autonomous Electric Container Ship Completes First Trip
The world's first all-electric and emission-free container ship completed its 8.7-mile maiden voyage from Porsgrunn, Norway, to the Norwegian port of Brevik.
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You Should See Her in a Crown. Now You Can See Her Face.
Joana Bruno at Spain's Autonomous University of Barcelona digitally replicated the faces of 36 people buried at the ancient European settlement of La Almoloya. ...
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This Tool Protects Your Private Data While You Browse
The SugarCoat tool developed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Brave Software can better protect users' private data as they browse...
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Early Warning System Model Predicts Cancer Patients' Deterioration
A new machine learning predictive model for hospitalized cancer patients integrates heterogeneous data in electronic health records.
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What Went Wrong With Zillow? A Real Estate Algorithm Derailed Its Big Bet
Real estate firm Zillow Group had looked to its digital home-flipping business Zillow Offers to lead its growth in the future, but that will not happen.
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Can a Machine Learn Morality?
Morality is a thorny issue for machines, as scientists learned in testing Delphi, a system programmed to make moral judgments.
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AI Favors White Men Under 40
Publicly available language models systematically favor the language of young White men and discriminate in particular against young, non-White men.
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Trouble at the Source
Errors and biases in artificial intelligence systems often reflect the data used to train them.
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'Hooking' Online Shoppers Is About More Than Popularity
New algorithms were designed to better engage online shoppers by ranking items using a combination of popularity and variety.
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Defense Department Issuing AI Ethics Guidelines for Tech Contractors
The controversy over Project Maven shows the department has a serious trust problem. This is an attempt to fix that.
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AI Behind Deepfakes May Power Materials Design Innovations
Researchers have trained a generative adversarial network to create refractory high-entropy alloys that can maintain their strength in ultra-high temperatures. ...
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Experts Establish 'North Star' for Domestic Robotics Field
Stanford University researchers have created a catalogue of the physical and intellectual details of 100 everyday household tasks, to set benchmarks for domestic...
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High-Tech Approaches to America's Sewer Problem
U.S. cities and service contractors use flying drones, crawling robots, and remote-operated swimming machines to explore, diagnose, and fix municipal sewer systems...
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Why Facebook Won't Let You Control Your Own News Feed
Lawmakers want social networks to offer users a chronological timeline. Leaked documents help to explain why Facebook doesn't.
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Bipartisan Bill Takes Aim at Algorithms
The bill would require Internet platforms to let people use a version of their services where content is not selected by "opaque algorithms" driven by personal...
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The Next Generation of Home Robots will be More Capable — and Perhaps More Social
Tech titans and upstarts alike are working to deepen our relationships with their robots.
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Enrollment Algorithms Raise Equity Concerns in Higher Ed
Algorithms that decide how colleges and universities apportion financial aid could be unfairly filtering out applicants and reducing their aid offers.
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Boxing Body Uses AI Vetting of Judges to Restore Trust
The International Boxing Association used an artificial intelligence system to evaluate judges and referees before clearing them for the current men's world championships...
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