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Building a Practical Quantum Computer
Quantum computation has a long road ahead.
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Sneaky Attacks Trick Ais Into Seeing or Hearing What's Not There
A new technique could be used by hackers to trick autonomous cars into ignoring stop signs or prevent surveillance cameras from spotting a suspect.
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We Could Build a Galactic Internet but It May Take 300,000 Years
If there are advanced alien civilizations in the Milky Way, we ought to be thinking about how to say hello to our neighbours.
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AI Coach Will Train Hopeless Chatbots to Pass the Turing Test
"I can't define obscenity, but I know it when I see it." US Justice Potter Stewart's famous turn of phrase could also be an apt description of the Turing test,...
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Neural Network Poetry Is So Bad We Think It's Written By Humans
A neural network trained on poetry has attempted to write its own lines; ts best efforts can convince people they are reading the words of a human poet.
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Sun's Gravity Could Power Interstellar Video Streaming
Need to send a message across interstellar space? Use the sun for a signal boost. A new proposal suggests that the sun's gravity could be used to amplify signals...
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Peering Inside an Ai's Brain Will Help S Trust Its Decisions
Oi, AI—What do you think you're looking at? Understanding why machine learning algorithms can be tricked into seeing things that aren't there is becoming more important...
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Artificially Intelligent Painters Invent New Styles of Art
Researchers have modified a generative adversarial network to create an artificial intelligence program that produces images in unconventional styles.
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Synthetic Iris Could Let Cameras React to Light Like Our Eyes Do
An artificial iris can open and close in response to sunlight without any other outside control, just like the ones in your eyes.
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Deepmind Now Learns from Human Preferences, Just Like a Toddler
AI systems continue to get increasingly powerful, but still need far too much hand-holding by their human masters. New research from DeepMind and OpenAI suggests...
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Smart Jacket and Vr Headset Let You Pilot a Drone With Your Body
Researchers say they have created a virtual reality headset and jacket system that enables operators to control a drone using only their body movement.
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Deepmind's Neural Network Teaches AI to Reason About the World
The world is a confusing place, especially for an AI.
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Robot Dog Has an Artificial Woof That Sounds Like the Real Thing
Researchers say they have developed a vocalization synthesizer that generates biologically fitting sounds for land mammals of any size.
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Robots Will Be More seful If They Are Made to Lack Confidence
University of California, Berkeley researchers are developing an artificial intelligence system that seeks and accepts human oversight.
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AI Will Be Able to Beat S at Everything By 2060, Say Experts
There is a 50% chance that machines will outperform humans in all tasks within 45 years, according to a survey of 352 artificial intelligence (AI) researchers conducted...
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Nanofridge Could Keep Quantum Computers Cool Enough to Calculate
Researchers have conceived of a nanoscale refrigerator to maintain temperatures cold enough to keep qubits functioning in a quantum computer.
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Inquisitive Bot Asks Questions to Test Your Understanding
Researchers say they have developed an artificial intelligence system that has learned to ask questions of its own.
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New Computer Vision Challenge Wants to Teach Robots to See in 3D
The progress made in training algorithms to recognize images via the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge has prompted its 2018 replacement with the...
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Synthetic Humans Help Computers Understand How Real People Act
Researchers are working to help computers understand human behavior by feeding them videos and images of computer-generated bodies in motion
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