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Ever since scientists first used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit living human cells in 2013, they've been saying that the possibilities for using it to treat disease are virtually...Technology Review From ACM News | December 20, 2017
The Moments in Time Dataset is a massive archive of three-second video clips annotated with minute details of the action being performed.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 7, 2017
A prototype augmented reality display can show a virtual image that both blocks real-world objects sitting behind it and can itself be blocked by other real-world...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 6, 2017
Google has released an artificial intelligence tool that uses gene sequencing data to build a more accurate genomic model.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 5, 2017
MozzWear is a low-cost smartphone sensor system that can identify and monitor mosquito populations.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 4, 2017
Angelina is an artificial intelligence that can imagine new video games from scratch, which has produced hundreds of experimental games since 2011.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 1, 2017
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can identify an art forgery by examining the piece's brush strokes.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 27, 2017
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that can skillfully play a Battleship-like game by determining how to ask questions as efficiently as possible...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2017
IBM last week announced a 50-quantum bit quantum computer, as well as the availability of a 20-qubit system via its cloud computing platform.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 13, 2017
Professional player Song Byung-gu won a recent "StarCraft" tournament in South Korea, beating four artificial intelligence programs in less than 30 minutes.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 3, 2017
When Brandon Araki arrived at MIT in 2015 as a master's candidate in mechanical engineering, he brought along the picobug, a tiny robot that can fly, crawl, and...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 1, 2017
Octavia, a humanoid robot designed to fight fires on Navy ships, has mastered an impressive range of facial expressions.
Technology Review From ACM News | October 26, 2017
Stanford University professor Andrew Ng is supporting the development of a Facebook chatbot to offer interactive cognitive behavior therapy to people suffering...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 23, 2017
DeepMind's upgrade to the AlphaGo algorithm, AlphaGo Zero, beat its predecessor in a 100-game Go match, acquiring skills by playing millions of games against itself...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 20, 2017
Artificial intelligence researchers and companies are applying machine learning to automate the more complicated aspects of AI algorithm development.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2017
Researchers used an intelligence test they developed to rank intelligent assistants such as Google Assistant and Siri on the same scale used for humans.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 18, 2017
Researchers have built a brain-to-tweet interface that predicts the song a finch is going to sing a fraction of a second before it does so.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2017
Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab director Fei-Fei Li advocates for more human-centered AI and the benefits it can yield.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2017
Researchers say they have outlined a way to achieve quantum supremacy, demonstrating a proof-of-principle version of a quantum computer.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 10, 2017