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Adding artificial intelligence to search engines enables enhanced Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.
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The Best Image-Recognition AIs are Fooled by Slightly Rotated Images
Artificial intelligence is much worse at identifying objects by sight than many people realize.
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Major Companies Are sing AI to Decide Who You Speak to on the Phone
Many large companies around the world use artificial intelligence-based software to manage millions of call-center conversations.
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K Police Wants AI to Stop Violent Crime Before It Happens
Police in the UK want to predict serious violent crime using artificial intelligence, New Scientist can reveal. The idea is that individuals flagged by the system...
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Search Engine for CCTV Lets You Find People From Their Description
A new system uses machine learning to automatically match individuals in videos with their descriptions.
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Your Brain Is Like 100 Billion Mini-Computers All Working Together
Each of our brain cells could work like a mini-computer, according to the first recording of electrical activity in human cells at a super-fine level of detail....
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AIs Invent Weird New Limbs to Beat Virtual Obstacle Courses
What are the best two legs for running an obstacle course? One leg that crawls at the knee joint, and one massive leg dragged behind for stability like a kangaroo's...
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This Robot Crawls Over Your Body and Scans Your Skin With a Microscope
A palm-sized bipedal robot can carry out a medical inspection of a patient when a doctor is unavailable.
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Flint Water Crisis: How AI Is Finding Thousands of Hazardous Pipes
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that can determine the location of dangerous lead pipes in Flint...
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The nderwater Drones That Hunt for Oil Spills
Researchers at the Technical University of Cartagena in Spain deployed five autonomous underwater vehicles to locate and track oil spills below the surface of the...
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AI Camera to Help Spot the Best Grapes for Making Pesticide-Free Wine
Researchers in Germany have developed a mobile laboratory to automate and accelerate the process of checking the wax coverage of grapes, a task prone to human error...
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How to Stop Artificial Intelligence Being Biased
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany have developed a new method to avoid embedding bias into machine learning algorithms....
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4 Tweets Can Reveal the Identity of an Anonymous Troll
Four geotagged posts are sufficient to identify an anonymous account from a telephone company's database of customers.
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Underwater Robot Finds Second World War Bomber Plane on Seabed
Harvey Mudd College researchers have developed a novel autonomous underwater vehicle that can explore the sea floor looking for signs of wrecked ships.
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Anti-Swearing AI Takes the Edge Off Abuse on Reddit and Twitter
IBM researchers have developed a system that translates offensive comments on social media into more polite language, while keeping the content intact.
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Eye Scanner Can Tell If You've Mastered a Foreign Language
A new algorithm monitors a person's unconscious eye movements as they read, to assess their proficiency in a foreign language.
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Monkey Face Recognition App Can Help Spot Endangered Primates
Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a mobile application that can identify and track primates in the wild from facial photos.
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.S. Army Makes a Virtual North Korea for Training
The U.S. Army is creating a virtual duplicate of our planet in which to drill troops.
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Computers Made From Human Cells Could Tell You When You're Sick
Researchers say they have created the world's most complex biological computer, a group of engineered cells that could be implanted into the human body.
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AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding nknown Bugs in the Code
A new algorithm plays Atari games and advances within them either by baiting an enemy to kill itself, or by exploiting bugs that allow the algorithm to cheat.
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