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Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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Siri’s Creators Demonstrate an Assistant That Takes the Initiative
SRI International has created a predictive assistant called Bright that reduces cognitive overload by providing specific information at the right time.
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What Will Hackers Do with the New Kinect?
Microsoft announced a new version of the Xbox One earlier this week, and with it an improved and essentially reinvented version of Kinect, the company's body- and...
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Samsung Demos a Tablet Controlled By Your Brain
One day, we may be able to check email or call a friend without ever touching a screen or even speaking to a disembodied helper.
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Deep Learning
When Ray Kurzweil met with Google CEO Larry Page last July, he wasn't looking for a job.
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Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun
Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address in February, will...
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Software Predicts Tomorrow's News By Analyzing Today's and Yesterday's
Researchers have created software that predicts when and where disease outbreaks might occur based on two decades of New York Times articles and other online data...
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Say Hello, or 你好, to China’s Siri
You might not have heard of iFlyTek. The company is hardly a household name in its domestic market of China, either.
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The Measurement that Would Reveal the Universe as a Computer Simulation
One of modern physics' most cherished ideas is quantum chromodynamics, the theory that describes the strong nuclear force, how it binds quarks and gluons into protons...
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Google Puts Its Virtual Brain Technology to Work
Google's recently developed learning software, which can identify specific objects by watching YouTube videos, is now being used to make Google's products smarter...
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A Robot Takes Stock
The short figure creeping around the Carnegie Mellon University campus store in a hooded sweatshirt recently isn't some shoplifter, but a robot taking inventory...
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An Online Encyclopedia That Writes Itself
DARPA recently collaborated with Raytheon BBN researchers to develop a system that can follow global news events and provide intelligence analysts with useful summaries...
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Three Questions For Patti Maes
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Patti Maes recently spoke with Technology Review to discuss the future of mobile technology.
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Verizon Envisions 4g Wireless in Just About Anything
Tucked away in a new office block in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a kind of wireless Tomorrowland.
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Software Translates Your Voice Into Another Language
Researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the sound of your voice, and then use it to speak a language that you don't.
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Algorithm Uses Photo Networks to Reveal Your Hometown
There is growing evidence that information gleaned from online social networks can be processed and used in ways to gain an accurate profile of an individual.
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Turing's Enduring Importance
When Alan Turing was born 100 years ago, on June 23, 1912, a computer was not a thing—it was a person.
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Embodiment, Computation and the Nature of Artificial Intelligence
Although many AI researchers have adopted the idea that true intelligence requires a body, known as embodiment, a growing group of researchers, led by the University...
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Twitter Bots Create Surprising New Social Connections
A group of freelance Web researchers have created a Twitter bot, called a socialbot, that can fool users into thinking the bots are real people and serve as virtual...
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