Vector databases, commonly used for similarity search and product recommendations, are a shining light in the era of Artificial…
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Researchers say they have developed a vocalization synthesizer that generates biologically fitting sounds for land mammals of any size.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 9, 2017
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...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 5, 2017
Researchers say they have developed an artificial intelligence system that has learned to ask questions of its own.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 10, 2017
Researchers used a database of 3.2 million photos to train a deep-learning system to distinguish between 48 animal species.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 19, 2017
The progress made in training algorithms to recognize images via the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge has prompted its 2018 replacement with the...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2017
Researchers are working to help computers understand human behavior by feeding them videos and images of computer-generated bodies in motion
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 5, 2017
Our most accurate clocks are probing a key tenet of Einstein's theory of relativity: the idea that time isn't absolute.
New Scientist From ACM News | March 23, 2017
Researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have developed a robotic head that analyzes how people interact with each other.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 17, 2017
By making DNA endlessly change, researchers have shown how a biological computer might one day solve problems much faster than conventional computers or even ...New Scientist From ACM News | March 3, 2017
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart in Germany have created a camera that combines four three-dimensionally-printed lenses to mimic natural vision.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 22, 2017
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...New Scientist From ACM News | February 13, 2017
A wearable device under development at the University of Michigan provides continuous authentication for voice assistants such as Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 8, 2017
Purdue University researchers have developed a system that uses a haptic device to let people interpret visual information using their hands.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 7, 2017