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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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White House Unveils New Efforts to Guide Federally Backed Research of Artificial Intelligence
The U.S. government and private sector in recent months have begun more publicly weighing the possibilities and perils of artificial intelligence.
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Software Update for World's Wind Farms Could Power Millions More Homes
A software upgrade developed by researchers at France's Polytechnic Institute of Paris improves the efficiency of wind turbines by ensuring they spend more time...
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Using Algorithms to Deliver Disaster Aid
Ensuring the billions of dollars governments send the disaster-stricken actually get to their intended destinations.
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Would You Take Financial Advice From A.I.?
The financial services industry is plotting how to incorporate tools like ChatGPT into its products. But humans will still be necessary to provide personal advice...
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At G-7 Summit, Leaders Call for International Standards on AI
World leaders at the Group of Seven summit in Japan called for the development of international standards to limit the potential damage from rapid innovations in...
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Another Side of the A.I. Boom: Detecting What A.I. Makes
More than a dozen companies have popped up to offer services aimed at identifying whether photos, text, and videos are made by humans or machines.
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Congress Really Wants to Regulate A.I., But No One Seems to Know How
Yet another hearing—this one with OpenAI's Sam Altman—has come after a new technology with the possibility to fundamentally alter our lives is already in circulation...
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Facebook Has Crowbarred Open the Pandora's Box of AI, Experts Warn
"You can't prevent people from creating nonsense or dangerous information or whatever."
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Dark Web ChatGPT Unleashed: Meet DarkBERT
Researchers have created a large language model trained on Dark Web data.
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Technologists Develop FatNet Algorithm
The FatNet algorithm can convert any convolutional neural network into a specialized network that is more compatible with an optical artificial intelligence accelerator...
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AI Drug Discovery Is $50-Billion Opportunity for Big Pharma
Drugmakers worldwide are adopting artificial intelligence in the hope of accelerating drug discovery and time to market while cutting costs.
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DarkBert AI Was Trained Using Dark Web Data
Researchers turned to the depths of the dark web to train this new language model
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Can We Stop Runaway A.I.?
Technologists warn about the dangers of the so-called singularity. But can anything actually be done to prevent it?
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Spooked by ChatGPT, US Lawmakers Want to Create an AI Regulator
At a congressional hearing, senators from both parties and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said a new federal agency was needed to protect people from AI gone bad.
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Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning
A provocative paper from researchers at Microsoft claims A.I. technology shows the ability to understand the way people do. Critics say those scientists are kidding...
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How Content Creators Cope with Discriminatory Algorithms
"AI has embedded our cultural biases and threatens to perpetuate discriminatory human behavior."
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Researchers Create Robot Capable of Cleaning Your Room, Doing Your Laundry
An international team of researchers has created the TidyBot robot, which can be commanded to clear spaces of objects.
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Google Unveils Plan to Demolish the Journalism Industry Using AI
This could change everything.
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The Global Battle to Regulate AI Is Just Beginning
Europe's parliament is struggling to agree on new rules to govern AI—showing how policymakers everywhere have a lot to learn about the technology.
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