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One Giant Leap for the Mini Cheetah
A new control system enhances the speed and agility of legged robots as they leap across gaps.
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How AI is Reinventing What Computers Are
Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute.
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Accelerating the Discovery of Materials for 3D Printing
Researchers have developed a less costly, less wasteful machine learning system for identifying three-dimensionally-printable materials.
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Algorithm Accurately Detects Disease-Causing Variants in Infants with Rare Diseases
The Fabric GEM algorithm was able to detect disease-causing variants in infants with rare diseases at six leading genomic centers and hospitals with high accuracy...
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AI Brings Hidden Picasso Nude to Life
Artificial intelligence, advanced imaging, and three-dimensional printing revealed the portrait of a nude woman hidden beneath the surface of a Picasso painting...
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Researchers Develop AI System to Improve Eye Disease Detection
The comprehensive artificial intelligence retinal expert (CARE) system can detect and monitor eye diseases.
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7-Eleven Took Photos of Australian Customers' Faces Without Consent, Privacy Commissioner Rules
Australian privacy commissioner Angelene Falk said facial recognition technology used in 700 Australian 7-Eleven stores interfered with customer privacy.
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Facebook Researchers Collect Thousands of Hours of First-Person Video to Train AI
The solution to machine learning problems is generally either more or better data.
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Developing Artificial Intelligence That 'Thinks' Like Humans
Scientists still do not fully understand how Deep Neural Networks process information.
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Cutting Through the Noise
Artificial intelligence enables high-fidelity quantum computing.
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These Neural Networks Know What They're Doing
Researchers have shown that a specific neural network can learn the cause-and-effect structure of a navigation task it is taught.
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Researchers Create Earthquake System Model with Better Detection Capabilities
The University of Wyoming's Pejman Tahmasebi and Tao Bai have invented a machine learning model that boosts the accuracy of earthquake detection.
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Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk
Researchers developed an army of more than 4,000 simulated doglike robots and used them to train an algorithm to control a real-world robot's legs.
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AI's Smarts Now Come With a Big Price Tag
As language models get more complex, they also get more expensive to create and run. Some companies are locked out.
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AI-Generated Deepfake Voices Can Fool Humans, Smart Assistants
Freely available voice-mimicking software can deceive people and voice-activated tools like smart assistants, according to University of Chicago scientists.
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A New Link to an Old Model Could Crack the Mystery of Deep Learning
To help them explain the shocking success of deep neural networks, researchers are turning to older but better-understood models of machine learning.
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Google Wants to Use AI to Time Traffic Lights More Efficiently
Google said it intends to test the use of artificial intelligence to optimize traffic-signal timing in Rio de Janeiro.
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Edge Computing: The Architecture of the Future
To fully digitize the last mile of business, you need to distribute compute power where it's needed most -- next to IoT devices that collect data from the real...
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