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Building a Practical Quantum Computer
Quantum computation has a long road ahead.
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MIT Engineers Devise Recipe for Improving Any Autonomous Robotic System
A general-purpose optimizer aims to speed development of autonomous robotic systems by using an optimization code that automatically determines how to boost performance...
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Stronger Security for Smart Devices
Two new security techniques block power and electromagnetic side-channel attacks targeting analog-to-digital converters in smart devices.
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Hallucinating to Better Text Translation
Scientists developed the VALHALLA machine learning method to hallucinate images of written words, and using those to help translate that text into target languages...
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Unpacking Black-Box Models
A mathematical framework aims to quantify and evaluate the understandability of a machine learning model's explanations for its predictions.
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Engineers Use AI to Capture Complexity of Breaking Waves
An international research team lleveraged machine learning to model how waves break, which could help improve the design of offshore structures and climate prediction...
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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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Fighting Discrimination in Mortgage Lending
To help combat discrimination in mortgage lending, a new process can remove bias from the data used to train machine learning models.
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Injecting Fairness into ML Models
Researchers have devleoped a method of incorporating fairness into machine learning models, even if they are trained on unfair data.
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A Security Technique to Fool Would-Be Cyberattackers
A new technique to prevent memory timing side-channel attacks by malware exploits memory hardware common to multiple programs running on the same computer.
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AI System Rapidly Predicts How Two Proteins Will Attach
An artificial intelligence model can forecast the binding configuration of two proteins.
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A New Language for Quantum Computing
Twist is an MIT-developed programming language that can describe and verify which pieces of data are entangled to prevent bugs in a quantum program.
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Generating a Realistic 3D World
Researchers developed the ThreeDWorld platform to simulate high-fidelity audio and visual environments.
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Taking Some Guesswork Out of Drug Discovery
The deep learning GeoMol model can rapidly predict the three-dimensional shapes of drug-like molecules, which could expedite drug discovery.
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Timber or Steel? Study Helps Builders Reduce Carbon Footprint of Truss Structures
Architects and engineers could design truss structures minimizing embodied carbon by using a new set of computational tools.
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AI Sheds Light on How the Brain Processes Language
Research by neuroscientists suggests the latest predictive language models' underlying mechanism functions similarly to the human brain's language-processing centers...
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Tool for Predicting Pedestrian Flow Expands Its Reach
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed and applied a predictive model of pedestrian traffic to Melbourne, Australia.
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AI Is Smart, but Does It Play Well with Others?
Researchers explored humans' ability to play a card game with an artificial intelligence model trained to play with teammates never before encountered.
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Universal System Decodes Any Type of Data Sent Across a Network
Scientists have programmed a universal algorithm to enable a silicon chip to decode any data transmitted across a network, irrespective of structure.
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Study: Crowds Can Wise Up to Fake News
Scientists suggest crowdsourced assessments from groups of normal readers can virtually match those of professional fact-checkers in vetting news stories.
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