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AI Will Augment SEO
Adding artificial intelligence to search engines enables enhanced Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.
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AI Is Dreaming p New Kinds of Video Games
Angelina is an artificial intelligence that can imagine new video games from scratch, which has produced hundreds of experimental games since 2011.
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This AI Can Spot Art Forgeries By Looking at One Brushstroke
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can identify an art forgery by examining the piece's brush strokes.
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This Inquisitive AI Will Kick Your Butt at Battleship
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that can skillfully play a Battleship-like game by determining how to ask questions as efficiently as possible...
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IBM Raises the Bar With 50-Qubit Quantum Computer
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.
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Humans Are Still Better Than AI at Starcraft--For Now
Professional player Song Byung-gu won a recent "StarCraft" tournament in South Korea, beating four artificial intelligence programs in less than 30 minutes.
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Building Tomorrow's Robots
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...
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How We Feel About Robots That Feel
Octavia, a humanoid robot designed to fight fires on Navy ships, has mastered an impressive range of facial expressions.
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Andrew Ng Has a Chatbot That Can Help With Depression
Stanford University professor Andrew Ng is supporting the development of a Facebook chatbot to offer interactive cognitive behavior therapy to people suffering...
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Alphago Zero Shows Machines Can Become Superhuman Without Any Help
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...
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AI Algorithms Are Starting to Teach AI Algorithms
Artificial intelligence researchers and companies are applying machine learning to automate the more complicated aspects of AI algorithm development.
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Now There's an Iq Test For Siri and Friends
Researchers used an intelligence test they developed to rank intelligent assistants such as Google Assistant and Siri on the same scale used for humans.
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Scientists Can Read a Bird's Brain and Predict Its Next Song
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.
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Put Humans at the Center of AI
Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab director Fei-Fei Li advocates for more human-centered AI and the benefits it can yield.
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Google Reveals Blueprint For Quantum Supremacy
Researchers say they have outlined a way to achieve quantum supremacy, demonstrating a proof-of-principle version of a quantum computer.
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Warning: This Algorithm Will Self-Destruct After It's sed
Two researchers say they have built a proof-of-principle algorithm that destroys itself after use.
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AI Programs Are Learning to Exclude Some African-American Voices
Researchers warn some artificial intelligence programs are inheriting biases against certain dialects, which could lead to automatic discrimination as language-based...
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First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
Researchers say they have proof that social bots are the key to the online proliferation of fake news.
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First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
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An Algorithm Trained on Emoji Knows When You're Being Sarcastic on Twitter
Researchers have developed a deep-learning textual sentiment algorithm which can analyze tweets to pick up sarcasm and general emotional subtext.
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