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Python-Based Compiler Achieves Performance Speedups
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Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)
What if part of your job became teaching a computer everything you know about doing someone's job—perhaps your own?
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Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug?
In early January, I went to see Mark Zuckerberg at MPK20, a concrete-and-steel building on the campus of Facebook's headquarters, which sits across a desolate highway...
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New Tools Needed to Track Technology's Impact on Jobs, Panel Says
New tools must be developed to track and measure the impact of artificial intelligence and automation on the U.S. job market, according to a report from an expert...
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Canada Tries to Turn Its A.i. Ideas Into Dollars
Long before Google started working on cars that drive themselves and Amazon was creating home appliances that talk, a handful of researchers in Canada—backed by...
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Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race For American Jobs
Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans?
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China's Intelligent Weaponry Gets Smarter
Robert O. Work, the veteran defense official retained as deputy secretary by President Trump, calls them his "A.I. dudes."
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A Darker Theme in Obama's Farewell: Automation Can Divide S
Underneath the nostalgia and hope in President Obama's farewell address Tuesday night was a darker theme: the struggle to help the people on the losing end of technological...
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Data Could Be the Next Tech Hot Button For Regulators
Wealth and influence in the technology business have always been about gaining the upper hand in software or the machines that software ran on.
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Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing
Jeff Bezos of Amazon, along with a couple of his rivals, may eventually control much of the $1 trillion global market for business computers and software.
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The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It's Automation.
The first job that Sherry Johnson, 56, lost to automation was at the local newspaper in Marietta, Ga., where she fed paper into the printing machines and laid out...
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The Great A.i. Awakening
Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing...
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A Slow Ride Toward the Future of Public Transportation
A self-driving electric bus relying on laser sensors, global-positioning systems, and software is undergoing testing in Helsinki, Finland.
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New Research Center to Explore Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
The ethics center is being established at a time of growing international concern about the impact of artificial intelligence technologies.
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Beyond Silicon: Squeezing More Out of Chips
Ali Farhadi holds a puny $5 computer, called a Raspberry Pi, comfortably in his palm and exults that his team of researchers has managed to squeeze into it a powerful...
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The Pentagon has made artificial intelligence the core of its agenda to maintain the U.S. position as the world's leading military power.
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The small drone, with its six whirring rotors, swept past the replica of a Middle Eastern village and closed in on a mosque-like structure, its camera scanning...
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Stepping p Security For an Internet-of-Things World
As the Internet of things moves closer to realization, initiatives must be taken to ensure the technology is secure, says Michael Walker at DARPA. "If we want...
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The Problem With Google's 'star Trek' Computer
Google is hoping to develop its Assistant, a Siri-like technology to be included on the company's new smartphones and other products, into something like the computer...
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In Backing Autonomous Cars, .s. Tells Automakers to Figure It Out
The Obama administration's approach to hands-free driving is remarkably hands-off.
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