A new robotic system can figure out at least the first principles of tool use, through a combination of experimentation and observation.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 17, 2019
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...Technology Review From ACM News | March 22, 2019
Yale University researchers have designed an observational drone that can perch like a bird to save energy.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 15, 2019
Researchers have analyzed how different recommendation algorithms can accelerate or decelerate filter bubbles and echo chambers online.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 14, 2019
As an experienced cyber first responder, Julian Gutmanis had been called plenty of times before to help companies deal with the fallout from cyberattacks.
Technology Review From ACM News | March 7, 2019
Here's some breaking fake news … Russia has declared war on the United States after Donald Trump accidentally fired a missile in the air.
Technology Review From ACM News | February 15, 2019
There was a time when the world's two great superpowers were obsessed with nuclear weapons technology.
Technology Review From ACM News | February 8, 2019
A study of 25 years of artificial-intelligence research suggests the era of deep learning is coming to an end.
Technology Review From ACM Careers | January 29, 2019
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...Technology Review From ACM News | January 18, 2019
Finland has launched an ambitious challenge to teach the basics of artificial intelligence to 1% of its population.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 16, 2019
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...Technology Review From ACM News | January 3, 2019
Researchers have taught an artificial intelligence system to convert ordinary monaural sounds into nearly three-dimensional sounds.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 3, 2019
New software can animate the central character in a photograph while leaving the rest of the image untouched.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 26, 2018
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...Technology Review From ACM News | December 21, 2018
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...Technology Review From ACM News | December 20, 2018
A new design for neural networks lacks traditional stacked layers of simple computational nodes that work together to find patterns in data.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 14, 2018
Canada and France recently announced plans for an international panel to assess the dangers of artificial intelligence and formulate appropriate policies.
MIT Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 13, 2018