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Organizing Unstructured Data
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Deep Learning Techniques Lead to Materials Imaging Breakthrough
Researchers have created two new deep learning methods.
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Can VR Help Ease Chronic Pain?
Virtual reality has emerged as a tool to treat chronic pain and is gaining popularity.
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An Easier Way to Teach Robots New Skills
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a machine learning method that enables robots to acquire new skills using a handful of human examples...
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Researchers Use ML to Speed Up Counting of Microplastics
Researchers have proposed a new machine learning method to accelerate the counting and classification of microplastics, while also boosting affordability and ease...
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1 Million AI Experts Needed, KAIST President Says
Lawmakers, experts propose policy options for incoming Yoon government.
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Intel Develops AI to Detect Emotional States of Students
An artificial intelligence software solution developed by Intel and Classroom Technologies to identify students' emotional states is generating controversy in the...
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Improved Approach to the 'Traveling Salesperson Problem' Could Boost Logistics, Transport Sectors
Researchers have developed an enhanced approach to the Traveling Salesperson Problem that yields high-quality solutions at a faster rate than other cutting-edge...
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House-Flipping Algorithms are Coming to Your Neighborhood
Despite millions of dollars in losses, iBuying's failure doesn't signal the end of tech-led disruption, just a fumbled beginning.
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Estimating the Informativeness of Data
MIT researchers can now estimate how much information data are likely to contain, in a more accurate and scalable way than previous methods.
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Hospital Robots Are Helping Combat Wave of Nurse Burnout
Moxi and other delivery-focused assistants have become even more critical as the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed health care workers to their limits.
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NEC X Announces Fifth AI Start-Up from its Corporate Accelerator Program
Start-up Beagle Technology addresses agricultural labor shortage and cost issues with new automated pruning technology for the wine industry.
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Reconfigurable Brain-Like Chips Top Deep Neural Net
The quantum material NNO demonstrates novel quantum properties that enable it to learn throughout its lifetime.
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Neural Networks Learn to Speed Up Simulations
Physics-informed machine learning is gaining attention, but suffers from training issues.
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Raising Robovoices
New systems can model and synthesize voices, and even translate them into other languages.
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Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health
How AI can be used to improve diagnosis of mental health conditions.
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AI Researcher Says Police Tech Suppliers are Hostile to Transparency
Expert witness in Lords police tech inquiry welcomes committee's findings but questions whether its recommendations.
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Scientists Develop Computational Approach to Reduce Noise in X-Ray Data
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have helped to de-noise synchrotron x-ray experiments computationally.
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Can AI All but End Car Crashes? The Potential Is There
Proponents of artificial intelligence believe it can be used to predict, and help to prevent, dangerous driving behaviors.
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AF2Complex: Researchers Leverage Deep Learning to Predict Physical Interactions of Protein Complexes
Researchers built a deep learning model to predict the biologically active structure of proteins and protein complexes.
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