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Synthetic Iris Could Let Cameras React to Light Like Our Eyes Do
An artificial iris can open and close in response to sunlight without any other outside control, just like the ones in your eyes.
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Deepmind Now Learns from Human Preferences, Just Like a Toddler
AI systems continue to get increasingly powerful, but still need far too much hand-holding by their human masters. New research from DeepMind and OpenAI suggests...
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Smart Jacket and Vr Headset Let You Pilot a Drone With Your Body
Researchers say they have created a virtual reality headset and jacket system that enables operators to control a drone using only their body movement.
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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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Waltzing Robot Teaches Beginners How to Dance Like a Pro
Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have developed a robotic dance instructor.
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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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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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Virtual Lemonade Sends Color and Taste to a Glass of Water
Researchers say they have developed a system that can digitally transmit the color and sourness of a glass of lemonade to a tumbler of water.
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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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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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