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Looking to Big Data, AI for COVID-19 Shutdown Exit Strategies
Crowdsourced data, artificial intelligence, and cryptography are emerging as vital tools for controlling transmission of COVID-19 as countries look for exit strategies...
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Preventing AI From Divulging Its Own Secrets
Researchers have demonstrated the first countermeasure for shielding artificial intelligence from differential power analysis attacks.
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This Was Supposed to Be the Year Driverless Cars Went Mainstream
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted technology companies' plans to bring autonomous vehicles into the mainstream this year.
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Can AI Become Conscious?
Yes, but only if it runs on very different hardware, says Christof Koch of Seattle's Allen Institute for Brain Science.
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AI Software Gets Mixed Reviews for Tackling Coronavirus
Artificial intelligence software used by hospitals to help diagnose and evaluate COVID-19 has drawn mixed reviews.
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Our Weird Behavior During the Pandemic is Messing With AI Models
Machine-learning models trained on normal behavior are showing cracks —forcing humans to step in to set them straight.
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New Hardware Could Curb AI's Energy Appetite
Purdue University engineers have developed hardware that learns using artificial intelligence that currently runs on software platforms.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Energy-Hungry – Solution: New AI Hardware Made of Quantum Material
Quantum material could offset energy demand of artificial intelligence.
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A Foolproof Way to Shrink Deep Learning Models
Researchers have proposed a new technique for compressing deep learning models.
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Coronavirus Tracking Apps Raise Questions About Bluetooth Security
Governments and businesses intend to launch mobile applications that use Bluetooth to track coronavirus infections, but working with Bluetooth raises cybersecurity...
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Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio: Self-Supervised Learning is Key to Human-Level Intelligence
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio say self-supervised learning could lead to artificial intelligence programs more humanlike in their...
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AI Can Search Satellite Data to Find Plastic Floating in the Sea
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can identify sea plastic in satellite imagery.
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Reducing the Carbon Footprint of AI
Researchers have developed an automated artificial intelligence system for training and running certain types of neural networks, which has a small carbon footprint...
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Australian Researchers Tap Cloud to Save the Tasmanian Devil
Researchers in Australia have partnered with Amazon Web Services on using cloud-based services to process, analyze, and categorize genomic data to protect endangered...
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AI Enables Teachers to Rapidly Develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created an artificial intelligence-based technique to help educators rapidly develop intelligent computerized tutoring...
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How A.I. Steered Doctors Toward a Possible Coronavirus Treatment
Specialists at the London start-up BenevolentAI helped identify the arthritis drug baricitinib, which is now part of a clinical trial.
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New Design Could Make Fiber Communications More Energy Efficient
A new optical device emits light in one direction, to make fiber communications more efficient.
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Device Simulates Feel of Walls, Solid Objects in VR
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created a device to help simulate the feel of objects in virtual reality.
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