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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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São Paulo Subway Facial Recognition System Slammed Over User Data Security, Privacy
Consumer rights groups say the agency operating the subway system in São Paulo, Brazil, has not shown that a new facial recognition technology platform protects...
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Can an Algorithm Predict the Pandemic’s Next Moves?
Researchers have developed a model that uses social-media and search data to forecast outbreaks of Covid-19 well before they occur.
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Disney's Deepfakes Closer to Big-Screen Debut
Disney researchers have demonstrated what they described as the first photorealistic deepfake at megapixel resolution.
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Lyft Releases Self-Driving Vehicle Data Set, Launches $30,000 Challenge
Lyft has released a Prediction Dataset, which contains the logs of movements of cars, pedestrians, and other obstacles encountered by its 23 autonomous vehicles...
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Drone With Bubble Machine Can Pollinate Flowers Like a Bee
Researchers have developed a method of pollinating flowers using an aerial drone that emits pollen-infused soap bubbles.
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Waymo, Uber Propose AI Techniques to Improve Self-Driving Systems
Researchers at Waymo and Uber have unveiled new technologies that aim to make their self-driving systems safer and more reliable.
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New Techniques Improve Quantum Communication, Entangle Phonons
Scientists have demonstrated a new quantum communication method.
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Countries Agree on Regulations for Automated Driving
The United Nations announced that 53 countries have agreed on common automated driving regulations.
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California City Bans Predictive Policing in U.S. First
Santa Cruz, CA, has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing.
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Blocking Facial Recognition
Facial recognition technology faces opposition from technology industry giants, and from the grass roots.
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AI Takes Player Performance Analysis to New Dimension
New artificial intelligence algorithms could revolutionize player performance analysis for football (soccer) clubs.
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Uber, Lyft Pricing Algorithms Charge More in Non-White Areas
George Washington University researchers found apparent racial bias in pricing algorithms used by ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft.
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AI Researchers Condemn Predictive Crime Software, Citing Racial Bias, Flawed Methods
A coalition of more than 1,000 researchers, academics, and experts in artificial intelligence condemned soon-to-be-published research claims of predictive crime...
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Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit.
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Chinese Researchers Unveil AI That Can Turn Simple Sketches Into Fake Photorealistic Pictures
A new artificial intelligence can convert simple sketches of a face into photorealistic images.
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La Trobe University Uses AI to Bring Mental Health Care to Cancer Patients
Using the framework can help medical personnel. understand a patient's behavior, emotions, and decision-making based on data shared by the patient.
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Circular Reasoning: Spiraling Circuits for More Efficient AI
Researchers stacked resistive random-access memory modules for artificial intelligence applications in a novel three-dimensional spiral.
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Your Wish Is My CMD
Artificial intelligence could automate software coding.
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Riding Out Quarantine With a Chatbot Friend: ‘I Feel Very Connected’
The digital companions may sound like science fiction. But when social isolation became the norm, they helped deal with the loneliness, some users say.
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