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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Google's Green Light Project Retimes Traffic Lights for 30% Fewer Stops
Google's Project Green Light has partnered with 12 cities worldwide to provide artificial intelligence-based traffic signal timing recommendations.
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'A.I. Obama' and Fake Newscasters: How A.I. Audio Is Swarming TikTok
TikTok accounts are spreading falsehoods with the help from A.I.-generated voices.
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AI Beats Human Sleuth at Finding Problematic Images in Research Papers
A study by independent U.K. biologist Sholto David found that artificial intelligence can identify image manipulation in research papers faster and more accurately...
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Robot Learns to Clean Space Just the Way You Like It
Roboticists developed a robot that can clean spaces based on users' personal preferences.
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Unequal Park Quality Exposed Using Social Media, Machine Learning
The study uses social media and machine learning to show environmental injustices in Philadelphia's urban parks.
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Geoffrey Hinton on the Promise, Risks of Advanced AI
U.K. computer scientist and 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Geoffrey Hinton said advanced artificial intelligence (AI), for all its promise, could conceivably...
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Microscopy Image Segmentation via Point and Shape Regularized Data Synthesis
Researchers applied a new segmentation network trained by point annotations and synthetically produced image-segmentation pairs to microscopy images.
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Dubai to Start Robotaxi Trials
The U.A.E. city of Dubai will launch its first wave of robotaxis this month in a bid to reduce congestion and accidents.
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Laureates Look Past the Hype in Generative AI
Attendees at this year's Heidelberg Laureate Forum anticipate future applications of the technology.
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Keshav Pingali Recognized with ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
The award will be formally presented to Pingali in November at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC23)...
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CRISPR Tool Could Help Shred Viruses
Rice University scientists have characterized the three-dimensional structure of one of the smallest known CRISPR-Cas13 systems for shredding or altering RNA.
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Raspberry Pi Tracks Unseen Drones Using Sound
Researchers from the universities of Texas and Tennessee used Raspberry Pi computers to track unseen drones with sound.
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AI Designs New Robot from Scratch in Seconds
A research team led by Northwestern University scientists created an artificial intelligence capable of designing robots from scratch almost immediately.
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ChatGPT Can Now Respond With Spoken Words
A newly released version of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot can interact with users vocally, as well as respond to images.
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AI Deepfakes Spread Disinformation in Slovak Elections
Disinformation spread over social media in the run-up to the Slovak elections that took place over the weekend, with videos featuring artificial intelligence (AI)...
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AI Is Policing the Package Theft Beat for UPS
UPS and other large logistics companies are rolling out technology to curtail porch piracy.
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Fighting Impersonation by AI
Finding ways to determine whether a voice message is real or generated by an artificial intelligence.
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