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Building Up the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
U.S. chipmakers await monetary support from the government a year after supporting legislation was signed into law.
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Deepmind's Neural Network Teaches AI to Reason About the World
The world is a confusing place, especially for an AI.
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Robot Dog Has an Artificial Woof That Sounds Like the Real Thing
Researchers say they have developed a vocalization synthesizer that generates biologically fitting sounds for land mammals of any size.
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Robots Will Be More seful If They Are Made to Lack Confidence
University of California, Berkeley researchers are developing an artificial intelligence system that seeks and accepts human oversight.
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AI Will Be Able to Beat S at Everything By 2060, Say Experts
There is a 50% chance that machines will outperform humans in all tasks within 45 years, according to a survey of 352 artificial intelligence (AI) researchers conducted...
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Nanofridge Could Keep Quantum Computers Cool Enough to Calculate
Researchers have conceived of a nanoscale refrigerator to maintain temperatures cold enough to keep qubits functioning in a quantum computer.
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Inquisitive Bot Asks Questions to Test Your Understanding
Researchers say they have developed an artificial intelligence system that has learned to ask questions of its own.
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New Computer Vision Challenge Wants to Teach Robots to See in 3D
The progress made in training algorithms to recognize images via the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge has prompted its 2018 replacement with the...
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Synthetic Humans Help Computers Understand How Real People Act
Researchers are working to help computers understand human behavior by feeding them videos and images of computer-generated bodies in motion
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Synthetic Humans Help Computers Understand How Real People Act
We are difficult for computers to understand.
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Atomic Clocks Make Best Measurement Yet of Relativity of Time
Our most accurate clocks are probing a key tenet of Einstein's theory of relativity: the idea that time isn't absolute.
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Robot Eavesdrops on Men and Women to See How Much They Talk
Researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have developed a robotic head that analyzes how people interact with each other.
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Why the Dark Net Is More Resilient to Attack Than the Internet
Researchers who built their own model of the dark net ran simulations to see how the model would react to three failure scenarios.
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First Hint of How Dna Calculators Could Supercharge Computing
By making DNA endlessly change, researchers have shown how a biological computer might one day solve problems much faster than conventional computers or even ...
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AI Learns to Write Its Own Code By Stealing from Other Programs
Out of the way, human, I've got this covered.
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Tiny 3D-Printed Camera Lens Could Give Drones Vision Like Ours
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart in Germany have created a camera that combines four three-dimensionally-printed lenses to mimic natural vision.
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Robotic Bee Could Help Pollinate Crops as Real Bees Decline
Researchers have created a drone that transports pollen between flowers.
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AI Learns to Solve Quantum State of Many Particles at Once
The same type of artificial intelligence that mastered the ancient game of Go could help wrestle with the amazing complexity of quantum systems containing billions...
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Army of 350,000 Star Wars Bots Found Lurking on Twitter
Researchers at University College London in the U.K. discovered a Twitter botnet that could be comprised of more than 350,000 accounts.
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