Vector databases, commonly used for similarity search and product recommendations, are a shining light in the era of Artificial…
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Brent Hecht, chair of ACM's Future of Computing Academy, proposes revising the peer review process to ensure scientists report negative societal consequences of...Nature From ACM TechNews | August 1, 2018
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 27, 2018
Beijing has announced plans to build a brain-science centre that will rival in size some of the world's largest neuroscience organizations. It will also serve as...Nature From ACM News | April 6, 2018
Chemists have a new lab assistant: artificial intelligence. Researchers have developed a "deep learning" computer program that produces blueprints for the sequences...Nature From ACM News | March 30, 2018
Superconducting computing chips modelled after neurons can process information faster and more efficiently than the human brain.
Nature From ACM News | January 29, 2018
Eyes are said to be the window to the soul—but researchers at Google see them as indicators of a person's health.
Nature From ACM News | January 3, 2018
Brain implants that deliver electrical pulses tuned to a person's feelings and behaviour are being tested in people for the first time. Two teams funded by the...Nature From ACM News | November 27, 2017
Engineers have used a supercomputing technique that mimics natural selection to design the internal structure of an aircraft wing from scratch.
Nature From ACM News | October 5, 2017
A storm of criticism has rained down on a paper by genome-sequencing pioneer Craig Venter that claims to predict people's physical traits from their DNA.
Nature From ACM News | September 11, 2017
Researchers are combining artificial intelligence and climate science to create deep-learning analyses of weather patterns.
Nature From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2017
As Earth-observing satellites become more plentiful and climate models more powerful, researchers who study global warming are facing a deluge of data.
Nature From ACM News | August 25, 2017
Neuroscientists who painstakingly map the twists and turns of neural circuitry through the brain are about to see their field expand to an industrial scale.
Nature From ACM News | August 17, 2017
Computer algorithms trained on the images of thousands of preserved plants have learned to automatically identify species that have been pressed, dried and mounted...Nature From ACM News | August 11, 2017
Artificial-intelligence programs harness game-theory strategies and deep learning to defeat human professionals in two-player hold'em.
Nature From ACM News | March 6, 2017
A complex variant of poker is the latest game to be mastered by artificial intelligence (AI). And it has been conquered not once, but twice, by two rival bots developed...Nature From ACM News | March 3, 2017
Volcanoes, monasteries, birds, thistles: the varied images in Jeff Clune's research paper could be his holiday snaps.
Nature From ACM News | February 1, 2017