Vector databases, commonly used for similarity search and product recommendations, are a shining light in the era of Artificial…
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This summer, the Google X lab launched a balloon into the stratosphere over Peru, and it stayed there for 98 days.Wired From ACM News | September 23, 2016
Artificial intelligence software developed by researchers at the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Texas can accurately predict breast cancer risk. Wired.co.uk From ACM TechNews | September 1, 2016
Microsoft pulled the strings. At least, that’s what Google and so many business and tech journalists said when the search giant first faced antitrust complaints...Wired From ACM News | July 15, 2016
If you follow the ongoing creation of self-driving cars, then you probably know about the classic thought experiment called the Trolley Problem.Wired From ACM News | June 9, 2016
IBM's Watson supercomputer hardly needs any more resumé-padding. It’s already wonJeopardy, written a cookbook, and dabbled in revolutionizing healthcare. Wired From ACM News | May 13, 2016
Facebook is building artificial intelligence algorithms that can help build AI algorithms by automating much of the trial and error that goes into their testing...Wired From ACM TechNews | May 9, 2016
Deep neural networks are remaking the Internet. Able to learn very human tasks by analyzing vast amounts of digital data, these artificially intelligent systems...Wired From ACM News | May 6, 2016
My dad is a wildlife biologist, and during road trips we took when I was growing up he spent a lot of time talking about the grasses and trees along the highway...Wired From ACM News | March 23, 2016
The move didn't make sense to the humans packed into the sixth floor of Seoul's Four Seasons hotel. But the Google machine saw it quite differently.Wired From ACM News | March 14, 2016
In 2012, IBM Watson went to medical school. So said The New York Times, announcing that the tech giant’s artificially intelligent question-and-answer machine had...Wired From ACM News | February 16, 2016
The future of artificial intelligence and its acceptance by people may lie in giving it the ability to master small talk, as embodied by Microsoft's XiaoIce chatbot...Wired From ACM TechNews | February 1, 2016
In 1996, IBM'S Deep Blue became the first supercomputer to defeat a chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, in a game.Wired From ACM News | January 21, 2016
The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. They shuttle packages and products across the massive warehouses that drive Amazon’s worldwide...Wired From ACM News | January 8, 2016
Google is teaching machines to play Atari games like Space Invaders, Video Pinball, andBreakout. And they're getting pretty good.
Wired From ACM News | December 2, 2015