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Tiny Four-Bit Computers Are Now All You Need to Train AI
IBM researchers have proposed reducing the number of computer bits from the current industry standard of 16 to just four.
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Chip Startup ses Light to Turbocharge AI
Luminous Computing has developed an optical microchip that runs AI models much faster than other semiconductors while using less power.
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A Revolutionary Imaging Technique ses a Single Pixel to Fill Our Terahertz Blind Spot
At almost every wavelength, engineers have electromagnetic antennae that can detect and record the waves and create exotic images of the world at radio, microwave...
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The Animal-AI Olympics Is Going to Treat AI Like a Lab Rat
In one of Aesop's fables, a thirsty crow finds a pitcher with a small amount of water beyond the reach of its beak.
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Russia Wants to Cut Itself Off from the Global Internet. Here's What that Really Means.
In the next two weeks, Russia is planning to attempt something no other country has tried before. It's going to test whether it can disconnect from the rest of...
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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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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 Neural Network Can Learn to Organize the World It Sees Into Concepts, Just Like We Do
GANs, or generative adversarial networks, are the social-media starlet of AI algorithms. They are responsible for creating the first AI painting ever sold at an ...
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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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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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Making AI Algorithms Crazy Fast sing Chips Powered by Light
Inside a small laboratory in Boston's seaport district, buried within a jumble of lasers, lenses, mirrors, and a tangle of wiring, is a tiny chip that might be...
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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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sing Wi-Fi to 'See' Behind Closed Doors Is Easier than Anyone Thought
Wi-Fi fills our world with radio waves. In your home, in the office, and increasingly on city streets, humans are bathed in a constant background field of 2.4-...
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The .S. Pushes to Build nhackable Quantum Networks
A few years ago, Edward Snowden, a contractor working for the US National Security Agency, leaked documents that showed the ways in which intelligence agenciestapped...
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China's Leaders Are Softening Their Stance on AI
China might be at loggerheads with the United States over trade, but it is calling for a friendlier approach to the development of artificial intelligence.
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The 'Neuropolitics' Consultants Who Hack Voters' Brains
Maria Pocovi slides her laptop over to me with the webcam switched on.
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The Defense Department Has Produced the First Tools for Catching Deepfakes
The first forensics tools for catching revenge porn and fake news created with AI have been developed through a program run by the US Defense Department.
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