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An AI that Writes Convincing Prose Risks Mass-Producing Fake News
Here's some breaking fake news … Russia has declared war on the United States after Donald Trump accidentally fired a missile in the air.
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The Real Reason America Is Scared of Huawei: Internet-Connected Everything
There was a time when the world's two great superpowers were obsessed with nuclear weapons technology.
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We Analyzed 16,625 Papers to Figure Out Where AI Is Headed Next
A study of 25 years of artificial-intelligence research suggests the era of deep learning is coming to an end.
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Will People Ditch Cash for Cryptocurrency? Japan Is About to Find Out
Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe wants 40% of payments in that country to be cashless by 2025.
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Giving Algorithms a Sense of ncertainty Could Make Them More Ethical
Algorithms are increasingly being used to make ethical decisions. Perhaps the best example of this is a high-tech take on the ethical dilemma known as the trolley...
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A Country's Ambitious Plan to Teach Anyone the Basics of AI
Finland has launched an ambitious challenge to teach the basics of artificial intelligence to 1% of its population.
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The S and China Are in a Quantum Arms Race that Will Transform Warfare
In the 1970s, at the height of the Cold War, American military planners began to worry about the threat to US warplanes posed by new, radar-guided missile defenses...
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Deep Learning Turns Mono Recordings Into Immersive Sound
Researchers have taught an artificial intelligence system to convert ordinary monaural sounds into nearly three-dimensional sounds.
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Machine Vision Can Create Harry Potter-Style Photos for Muggles
New software can animate the central character in a photograph while leaving the rest of the image untouched.
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These Incredibly Realistic Fake Faces Show How Algorithms Can Now Mess with s
These faces don't seem particularly remarkable. They could easily be taken from, say, Facebook or LinkedIn. In reality, they were dreamed up by a new kind of AI...
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China's Tech Giants Want to Go Global. Just One Thing Might Stand in Their Way.
In the early 1980s, a cluster of fledging computer companies opened up shop in a chaotic corner of northwest Beijing, near the campuses of Peking and Tsinghua Universities...
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China Has Never Had a Real Chip Industry. Making AI Chips Could Change That.
Donald Trump is speaking Mandarin.
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Radical New Neural Network Design Could Overcome Big Challenges in AI
A new design for neural networks lacks traditional stacked layers of simple computational nodes that work together to find patterns in data.
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Canada, France Plan an International Panel to Assess AI Dangers
Canada and France recently announced plans for an international panel to assess the dangers of artificial intelligence and formulate appropriate policies.
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Machine Learning Identifies Cryptocurrency Scams Before They Happen
Researchers in the U.K. have developed an algorithm that can predict "pump-and-dump" cryptocurrency scams prior to their occurrence.
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Machine Learning, Meet Quantum Computing
Researchers have constructed the world's first single-layer neural network, known as a perceptron, and induced it to perform simple image processing tasks.
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Harvard Wants to School Congress About AI
Harvard Kennedy School's Dipayan Ghosh and former U.S. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler have launched a new AI policy initiative aimed at educating U.S. politicians and...
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A Robot Scientist Will Dream p New Materials
Startup Kebotix has created software that learns material chemistry from models of molecules with known properties in order to design novel compounds.
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A Robot Scientist Will Dream p New Materials to Advance Computing and Fight Pollution
In a laboratory that overlooks a busy shopping street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a robot is attempting to create new materials.
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