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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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ChatGPT in the Classroom
ChatGPT is giving educators headaches and forcing them to reinvent how classrooms work.
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Sound-Based Quantum Computers Could Be Built Using Chip-Sized Device
University of Chicago researchers have confirmed the feasibility of building sound-based quantum computers.
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Algorithm Uses Phone Camera to Detect Blood Oxygen Levels
Purdue University researchers have developed an algorithm to improve the speed and accuracy of medical diagnoses using smartphone sensors.
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'Incompetent' Driverless Cars Wreak Havoc on San Francisco
In San Francisco, autonomous vehicles from Cruise and Waymo undergoing "rigorous" training on local roadways are raising safety concerns among residents.
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Drone Taxis Take First Test Spin in Israel
Israel has begun test flights of autonomous aircraft for heavy cargo, and eventually passenger transport, as part of a two-year, government-led project to manage...
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DeepMind AI's New Way to Sort Objects Could Speed up Global Computing
Sorting algorithms are basic functions used constantly by computers around the world, so an improved one could make millions of programs run faster.
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Machine Learning Turns Up COVID Surprise
Researchers using machine learning to analyze daily pneumonia cases in an intensive care unit gained surprising insights about COVID-19 patients.
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Humans Help Computers Spot Bursts from Space
Citizen scientists mined radio astronomy data from the ThunderKAT survey to discover new sources of sporadic space emissions that computer algorithms missed.
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Uber Eats Food-Delivery Robots Set for Use in Multiple U.S. Cities
Service robot company Serve Robotics said Uber Eats will deploy up to 2,000 of its food-delivery robots to deliver food in cities in the U.S. and Canada by next...
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Ground Rules for the Age of AI Warfare
How to keep autonomous weapons from stumbling into conflict.
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Probabilistic AI That Knows How Well It's Working
A new technique produces artificial intelligence (AI) inference algorithms that can generate explanations for data and calculate their accuracy.
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An Algorithm for Sharper Protein Films
Researchers have created an algorithm to more precisely analyze ultra-fast protein motion collected by an X-ray free-electron laser facility.
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Pen-Based Computing: Still Looking For The Write App
The sector, once popular, is searching for applications and users.
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How AI Protects (and Attacks) Your Inbox
Companies, like Google, are looking for ways artificial intelligence and machine learning can help prevent phishing.
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The Making of a Mona Lisa Hologram
An international team of researchers developed an acoustic metasurface-based holography technique, which they tested by recreating the Mona Lisa.
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The Race to Make AI Smaller, Smarter
The BabyLM Challenge is aimed at creating more accessible, intuitive language models.
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Assessing Political Bias in Language Models
Stanford University researchers developed OpinionQA to evaluate bias in language models.
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The Long and Short of Fish Lifespans
Researchers have created a computational model to predict any fish species' lifespan.
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