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Will AI Replace Computer Programmers?
Advances in artificial intelligence tools that can code could improve productivity, but portend disruption.
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Now You Can Build Google's $1m Artificial Brain on the Cheap
Andrew Ng wants to bring deep learning—an emerging computer science field that seeks to mimic the human brain with hardware and software into the DIY era.
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Computer Brain Escapes Google's X Lab to Supercharge Search
Two years ago Stanford professor Andrew Ng joined Google's X Lab, the research group that's given us Google Glass and the company's driverless cars. His mission...
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New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans For World's Most Popular Mobile Os
For the past few years, Sundar Pichai has been part of a tag-team routine staged at Google's annual I/O developer conference.
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The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest For the New AI
There's a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm.
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How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the ltimate AI Brain
Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn't have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field...
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'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley
It doesn't look like much.
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So It Begins: DARPA Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves
The Pentagon's blue-sky research agency is readying a nearly four-year project to boost artificial intelligence systems by building machines that can teach themselves—while...
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Rodent Mind Meld: Scientists Wire Two Rats' Brains Together
It's not exactly a Vulcan mind meld, but it's not far off.
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Three Radical New Brain-Mapping Tools Scientists Want Obama to Deliver
The Obama administration wants to make a huge investment in mapping the human brain,according to The New York Times. How can they get the most bang for their buck...
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How Google Retooled Android With Help From Your Brain
When Google built the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, the Web giant made some big changes to the way the OS interprets your voice commands...
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Stand on Mars Next to the Curiosity Rover With This Incredible Panorama
Over the weekend, NASA's Curiosity rover successfully drilled into the surface of Mars and collected its first sample from the interior of a rock.
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Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest .s. Robot Market
When the flying robots that loiter in Afghanistan's and Yemen's airspace come home, they won't just be headed for the local police station.
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.s. Cities Relying on Precog Software to Predict Murder
Who needs the freaky precogs of Minority Report to predict if someone’s likely to commit murder when you have an algorithm that can do it for you?
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Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—take Our Jobs
It's hard to believe you'd have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force.
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Military Must Prep Now For 'mutant' Future, Researchers Warn
The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what California Polytechnic State University researcher...
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Why the Frontiers of Biology Might Be Inside a Computer Chip
When David Harel started the experiment, the petri dish of mouse cells looked just like any other.
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Most U.s. Drones Openly Broadcast Secret Video Feeds
Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into drone video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn't secured the transmissions of more than half of its...
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Paging Dr. Watson: Artificial Intelligence As a Prescription For Health Care
Everyone agrees health care in the United States is a colossal mess, and IBM is betting that artificially intelligent supercomputers are just what the doctor ordered...
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Warehouse 'bots Do Battle to Make Same-Day Delivery a Reality
The robots zipping across the aluminum grid look less like Star Wars droids and more like little red wagons.
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