On May 10th, 2020 with 14 comments
"France is integrating new AI tools into security cameras in the Paris metro system to check whether passengers are wearing face masks," reports the Verge:
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On April 22nd, 2020 with 5 comments
To commemorate Earth Day, Intel -- in partnership with Accenture and Sulubaai Environmental Foundation, a Philippine-based nonprofit dedicated to protecting...
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On April 17th, 2020 with 78 comments
In a preprint academic paper published in early April, MIT researchers describe a model that quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on the spread of...
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On April 14th, 2020 with 89 comments
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving -- literally. Researchers have created software that borrows...
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On April 4th, 2020 with 25 comments
Digital Trends reports:
IBM's question-answering Watson A.I. is most famous for whooping the butt of human champions on quiz show Jeopardy. Now, IBM has...
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On April 2nd, 2020 with 19 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence program that can screen people for lung cancer by...
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On March 26th, 2020 with 44 comments
A new consortium of top scientists will be able to use some of the world's most advanced supercomputers to look for solutions. From a report: Advanced...
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On March 17th, 2020 with 87 comments
An Austin, Texas based technology company is launching "artificially intelligent thermal cameras" that it claims will be able to detect fevers in people, and...
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On March 15th, 2020 with 59 comments
"However small the probability of seeing a signal from E.T. is, those chances are soon going to be a lot better than they have been in the past," reports...
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On March 10th, 2020 with 13 comments
To combat resistant bacteria and refill the trickling antibiotic pipeline, scientists are getting help from deep learning networks. From a report:...
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On February 12th, 2020 with 74 comments
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Modeling immensely complex natural phenomena such as how subatomic particles interact or how atmospheric...
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On January 22nd, 2020 with 24 comments
We make decisions by weighing pros and cons. Artificial intelligence has the potential to help us with that by sifting through ever-increasing mounds of data....
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On January 17th, 2020 with 35 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: In a paper published in Nature today, DeepMind, Alphabet's AI subsidiary, has once again used...
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On January 13th, 2020 with 26 comments
Through its partnerships with health care providers, Google can view tens of millions of patient records in at least three-quarters of states, the Wall Street...
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On January 2nd, 2020 with 26 comments
Google's health research unit said it has developed an artificial-intelligence system that can match or outperform radiologists at detecting breast cancer,...
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On December 17th, 2019 with 36 comments
Guillaume Lample and Francois Charton, at Facebook AI Research in Paris, say they have developed an algorithm that can calculate integrals and solve...
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On December 13th, 2019 with 32 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal: Cigna plans to expand a system that uses artificial intelligence to identify gaps in...
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On December 7th, 2019 with 77 comments
"Tens of thousands of alarms shriek, beep and buzz every day in every U.S. hospital," reports Fierce Healthcare -- even though most of them aren't urgent,...
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On November 19th, 2019 with 117 comments
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have devised a system that can predict what different cars will do by...
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On November 9th, 2019 with 146 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader taiwanjohn shared this article from Live Science:
The mind-bending calculations required to predict how three heavenly bodies orbit...
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On October 25th, 2019 with 18 comments
In a paper published on Arxiv, researchers from the Google Brain Team explain how they're training AI to recognize smells. Engadget reports: The researchers...
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On October 23rd, 2019 with 9 comments
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: By harnessing the power of imagination, researchers have nearly doubled the speed at which completely...
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On October 4th, 2019 with 31 comments
Intel and Brown University have started work on a DARPA-backed Intelligent Spine Interface project that would use AI to restore movement and bladder control...
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On September 27th, 2019 with 37 comments
Artificial intelligence is on a par with human experts when it comes to making medical diagnoses based on images, a review has found. From a report: The...
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On September 26th, 2019 with 123 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Kevin Buzzard, a number theorist and professor of pure mathematics at Imperial College London, believes...
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On September 20th, 2019 with 13 comments
After successfully predicting laboratory earthquakes, a team of geophysicists has applied a machine learning algorithm to quakes in the Pacific Northwest. From...
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On September 18th, 2019 with 71 comments
In the early days of life on Earth, biological organisms were exceedingly simple. They were microscopic unicellular creatures with little to no ability to...
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On August 9th, 2019 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Sudden shrieks of radio waves from deep space keep slamming into radio telescopes on Earth, spattering those instruments'...
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On August 8th, 2019 with 99 comments
Scientists have developed an "artificial tongue" that can differentiate a young whisky from an 18-year-old single malt. "The team, based in Scotland, say their...
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On August 1st, 2019 with 25 comments
Five years after Google acquired DeepMind, the health and artificial intelligence group is unveiling its biggest breakthrough yet in health care. Its...
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