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Python-Based Compiler Achieves Performance Speedups
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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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Meet the Guy With Four Arms, Two of Which Someone Else Controls in VR
Fusion is a robotic project to explore how people may be able to work together to control, or augment, a person's body.
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.S. Defense Department Produces First Tools for Catching Deepfakes
U.S. Defense researchers say they have created the first forensic tools for catching fake videos, known as "deepfakes," created with artificial intelligence.
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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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An AI-Driven Robot Hand Spent a Hundred Years Teaching Itself to Rotate a Cube
AI researchers have demonstrated a self-teaching algorithm that gives a robot hand remarkable new dexterity.
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Hordes of Research Robots Could Be Hijacked for Fun and Sabotage
Many experimental robots that live in research laboratories around the world may be wide open to hackers.
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This Algorithm Can Tell Which Number Sequences a Human Will Find Interesting
A new machine learning algorithm can spot specific patterns in mathematical structures and apply them to extract interesting sequences from randomly generated ones...
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AI Could Get 100 Times More Energy-Efficient with IBM's New Artificial Synapses
Neural networks are the crown jewel of the AI boom. They gorge on data and do things like transcribe speech or describe images with near-perfect accuracy (see "10...
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The S Military Is Funding an Effort to Catch Deepfakes and Other AI Trickery
Think that AI will help put a stop to fake news? The US military isn't so sure.
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AI Generates New Doom Levels for Humans to Play
Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy have found it is possible to have a deep learning algorithm create compelling new game levels in Doom...
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How Can We Be Sure AI Will Behave? Perhaps by Watching It Argue With Itself
Researchers say having two artificial intelligence systems debate a particular goal could ensure that they behave reliably when executing complex functions.
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Facebook Helped Create an AI Scavenger Hunt That Could Lead to the First seful Home Robots
Researchers have developed a scavenger hunt that could help artificial intelligence programs develop common sense.
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Computer Scientists Find the Longest Straight Line You Could Sail Without Hitting Land
A new algorithm can calculate the longest straight-line path around the world on land or sea.
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Facebook Helped Create an AI Scavenger Hunt that Could Lead to the First seful Home Robots
Artificial-intelligence programs could develop some much-needed common sense by competing in scavenger hunts inside virtual homes filled with simulated coffee tables...
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AI Can Spot Signs of Alzheimer's Before Your Family Does
Researchers are exploring machine learning as a tool for identifying signs of Alzheimer's disease that physicians and loved ones may otherwise overlook.
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The .S. Military Wants AI to Dream p Weird New Helicopters
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding efforts to employ artificial intelligence to conceptualize complex component designs, including the...
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AI Assistants Say Dumb Things, and We're About to Find Out Why
A new test will pose elementary-school-level multiple-choice science questions to artificial intelligence systems.
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Google Thinks It's Close to 'Quantum Supremacy.' Here's What That Really Means.
Seventy-two may not be a large number, but in quantum computing terms, it's massive.
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A New Data Trove Could Teach Computers to Tell Blind People What They Need to Know
Researchers are publishing a database of images and challenging the machine-vision community to use it to train machines as effective assistants for those with...
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