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Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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How AI Is Driving the Esports Boom
Artificial intelligence is helping the esports industry take the world by storm.
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AI Model Recommends Personalized Fonts to Improve Reading, Accessibility
Model matches reader characteristics, such as font familiarity and age, with specific font characteristics, such as heavier weight.
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Bartending Robot Can Make Small Talk
Drink-mixing machine uses machine learning algorithms to interact with customers.
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Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works
Self-supervised learning allows a neural network to figure out for itself what matters. The process might be what makes our own brains so successful.
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Mathematical Modeling Could Lead to Simple Blood Test for Brain Tumors
New mathematical models can assess the use of biomarkers for detecting glioblastomas (GBMs) and their potential for improvement.
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Robot Unties Knotted Cables but Can't Pick Them Up
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) researchers have developed a robot that can untie knotted cables using the grippers on its arms.
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How the Secrets of Ancient Cuneiform Texts Are Being Revealed by AI
Artificial intelligence is being used to read and translate cuneiform, helping to recreate ancient libraries by piecing together fragmented tablets and predicting...
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Where Are The Autonomous Cars?
L5 vehicles need at least 10 more years of development.
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Can Foundation Models Help Us Achieve 'Perfect Secrecy'?
Stanford University researchers are exploring whether emerging foundation models can help to realize the highest level of privacy, or "perfect secrecy."
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Streaming from the Future
A machine learning system can remove buildings from a live view on a mobile device, which could speed up the process of urban renewal.
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Crypto and the U.S. Government Are Headed for a Decisive Showdown
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused Ishan Wahi, a former product manager at the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange, of insider trading and securities fraud...
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Found in Space
Using deep learning to identify and classify astronomically distant objects.
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NASA Space Robotics Dive into Deep-Sea Work
Former NASA roboticists who helped developed the Robonaut 2 astronaut assistant robot are part of a research team that has developed a deep-sea robot.
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Zooming In to Get the Full Picture
Scientists have built the most comprehensive single-cell map of embryo development in any animal to date, using the fruit fly as its model.
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A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is?
Robots can't think or feel, despite what the researchers who build them want to believe.
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AI Can Diagnose Dementia As Accurately as Experts
The results of recent research have broad implications for dementia treatment.
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Team Generates First Global Map of Cargo Ship Pollution, Revealing Effects of Fuel Regulations
A new algorithm automates the process of tracking cargo ships via satellite data.
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AI Learns to Recognize Species of Splatted Mosquitoes
Artificial intelligence taught to identify living and dead mosquitoes could help monitor the species most complicit in transmitting diseases.
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A.I. Predicts the Shape of Nearly Every Protein Known to Science
DeepMind has expanded its database of microscopic biological mechanisms, hoping to accelerate research into all living things.
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