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How A.I. Steered Doctors Toward a Possible Coronavirus Treatment
Specialists at the London start-up BenevolentAI helped identify the arthritis drug baricitinib, which is now part of a clinical trial.
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An ESPN Commercial Hints at Advertising's Deepfake Future
With the pandemic having shut down production, companies are asking ad agencies to create commercials made up of digitally altered footage.
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Australia's Fire Season Ends, Researchers Look to the Next One
The effectiveness of many technologies being developed to cope with wildfires in Australia hinges on the ability to predict how fuel types like eucalyptus trees...
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Will ‘Big Data’ Restore Active Managers’ Mojo?
Sophisticated tech used to gather and analyze information may be able to improve returns, but the data isn't showing it.
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Can't Scout Players in Person? The NFL Turns to Brooklyn Startup
The National Football League is using a startup's artificial intelligence technology to remotely scout prospective players during the coronavirus restrictions. ...
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Toward Computers That Teach Themselves
The artificial intelligence industry is experiencing a supervised learning revolution, as researchers teach computers to recognize patterns and learn from them....
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AI Helping Scientists Understand an Ocean's Worth of Data
Researchers have trained a neural network to distinguish humpback whale songs from other ocean noise.
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You Can’t Spell Creative Without A.I.
Advances in software applications that process human language lie at the heart of the debate over whether computer technologies will enhance or even substitute...
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Computers Already Learn From Us. But Can They Teach Themselves?
Scientists are exploring approaches that would help machines develop their own sort of common sense.
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There Is a Racial Divide in Speech Recognition Systems, Researchers Say
Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, and Microsoft misidentified 35% of words from people who were black. White people fared much better.
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An Algorithm That Grants Freedom, or Takes It Away
Local authorities in the U.S. and Europe use predictive governance algorithms to assess people's risk of criminality, and base probation, jail time, and other decisions...
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Jigsaw Tool to Help Journalists Spot Doctored Images
Jigsaw has released a free tool, designed to help journalists identify doctored photos, including those generated through the use of artificial intelligence.
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AI Comes to the Operating Room
Surgeons are utilizing artificial intelligence and new imaging methods to diagnose brain tumors faster than pathologists, and with similar accuracy.
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Killer Robots Aren’t Regulated. Yet.
"Killing in the Age of Algorithms" is a New York Times documentary examining the future of artificial intelligence and warfare.
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Gymnastics' Latest Twist? AI Judges That See Everything
The gymnastics world championships in Germany used an artificial intelligence system to evaluate athletes' performance.
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AI System Passed an Eighth-Grade Science Test
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence introduced an artificial intelligence system that successfully passed an eighth-grade multiple-choice science test...
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AI Is Learning From Humans. Many Humans.
While artificial intelligence systems are viewed by most people in technology as the future of the industry, tech executives rarely discuss the labor-intensive...
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And Now, a Bicycle Built for None
Researchers from Tsinghua University in China have developed a self-driving bicycle.
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Toby Walsh, A.I. Expert, Is Racing to Stop the Killer Robots
Autonomous weapons, capable of acting without human oversight, are closer than we think, Walsh believes, and must be banned.
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