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Researchers Find Even 'Fair' Hiring Algorithms Can Be Biased
Researchers at Harvard University and Germany's Technische Universität Berlin analyzing how "fair" ranking algorithms affect gender uncovered inconsistent ranking...
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Google's AI Can Keep Loon Balloons Flying for Over 300 Days in a Row
An artificially intelligent pilot can keep huge stratospheric balloons aloft in a fixed position for hundreds of days to operate as floating cell towers for remote...
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Google Reveals Major Hidden Weakness In Machine Learning
Deep learning algorithms are prone to a previously unknown problem, say a team of computer scientists at Google.
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Voice Assistant Recordings Could Reveal What Someone Nearby Is Typing
A machine learning system can be used with voice assistants to detect typing on touchscreens nearby, using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to determine what...
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Robot Hands One Step Closer to Human, Thanks to WMG AI Algorithms
Artificial intelligence algorithms enable the Shadow Robot Dexterous Hand to manipulate objects like humans do.
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Does AI in Healthcare Need More Emotion?
Emotion artificial intelligence applications in healthcare are rare, with many scientists skeptical of the technology's utility.
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How Humans Use Objects in Novel Ways to Solve Problems
Researchers have developed a cognitive model that learns to use objects in novel ways to solve problems, like humans do.
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Exploring 'Data Storytelling'
Conversational interfaces provide spoken responses to queries of business databases.
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AI Can Turn Spoken Language Into Photorealistic Sign Language Videos
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of Surrey employed a neural network to render spoken language as sign language.
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Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First
A Swiss publisher of open-access journals has rolled out a robotic review assistant to check for potential conflicts of interest.
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Disney Is Teaching Robots How to Sculpt with Clay
Researchers created a system that allows human artists to train robots to sculpt clay, with tools that allow them to emulate artistic styles.
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Search and Rescue Drones Use AI to Find People Lost in Woods
New drones are equipped with a deep learning application that improves the images they collect during search and rescue missions to better distinguish people from...
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London AI Lab Claims Breakthrough That Could Accelerate Drug Discovery
Researchers at DeepMind say they have solved "the protein folding problem," a task that has bedeviled scientists for more than 50 years.
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A Neural Network Learns When It Should Not Be Trusted
Researchers have enabled a neural network to rapidly process data, yielding both predictions and confidence levels based on the quality of the available data.
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Deep Learning Helps Robots Grasp, Move Objects with Ease
New artificial intelligence software integrates neural networks with motion-planning software to enable robots to assist humans in warehouse settings.
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Climate Researchers Enlist Big Cloud Providers for Big Data Challenges
Climate science researchers increasingly are turning to the cloud for its ability to manage large amounts of data using machine-learning algorithms.
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TLDR: This AI Sums Up Research Papers in a Sentence
Software called TLDR (too long, didn't read) automatically produces one-sentence abstracts of research papers.
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Need a Hypothesis? This A.I. Has One
Slowly, machine-learning systems are beginning to generate ideas, not just test them.
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Cloud Computing Is Grabbing More of Your IT Spending
Cloud-based corporate information technology spending should expand in the coming years, as businesses transition more applications and services, says Gartner. ...
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