machine learning
What can your microwave tell you about your health?
An MIT system uses wireless signals to measure in-home appliance usage to better understand health tendencies.
New AI improves itself through Darwinian-style evolution
AutoML-Zero is a proof-of-concept project that suggests the future of machine learning may be machine-created algorithms.
Ask Sophia the Robot: Is AI an existential threat to humans?
Should humans fear artificial intelligence or welcome it into our lives?
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An AI can read words in brain signals
Researchers at UCSF have trained an algorithm to parse meaning from neural activity.
Ask Sophia the Robot: What can AI teach humans?
Through experiencing time in a nonlinear way, can artificial intelligence provide us more perspective?
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Busting the myth of ‘neutral’ AI
We encode our biases into everything we create: books, poems, and AI. What does that means for an increasingly automated future?
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The digital economy benefits the 1%. Here’s how to change that.
A pragmatic approach to fixing an imbalanced system.
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Social media makes breakups worse, study says
Is there a way for more human-centered algorithms to prevent potentially triggering interactions on social media?
Why democratizing AI is absolutely crucial
Without regulations, implicit bias could shape artificial intelligence into a nightmare for some.
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Automation apocalypse: Too many robots? More like not enough.
Ezra Klein offers good reasons to take a skeptical look at automation apocalypse theories.
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The ‘85% Rule’: Why a dose of failure optimizes learning
If you're always succeeding, you're probably not learning much.
The future of the mind: Exploring machine consciousness
What if consciousness is just a blip in the universe, a momentary flowering of experience that is unique to life in early technological civilizations—but eventually vanishes?
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A neural network discovered Copernicus’ heliocentricity on its own
Can neural networks help scientists discover laws about more complex phenomena, like quantum mechanics?
Conscious machines: How will we test artificial intelligence for feeling?
A review of the multifaceted questions we'll ask to determine whether robots have a felt quality of experience — an "inner feel."
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Deep learning nails correlation. Causation is another matter.
Why do people with bigger hands have a better vocabulary? That's one question deep learning can't answer.
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Can AI simulations predict the future?
Move over deepfakes. Multi-agent artificial intelligence is poised to manipulate your mind.
You should be skeptical when it comes to hyped-up AI. Here’s why.
These questions can help us think more critically about new developments in artificial intelligence.
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McDonald’s wants to automate its drive-thrus with A.I.
The fast-food company recently agreed to acquire a tech company whose "speech-to-meaning" technology might soon be interpreting customers' orders.
AI: Our New Best Friend
The fourth wave of the Industrial Revolution is here. If change is led by the right people, we will have ethical machines, says Intel's Lama Nachman.
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Machines probably aren’t interested in global takeover. Here’s why.
What most people worry about when it comes to artificial intelligence likely comes from science-fiction fantasy.
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The biggest problem in AI? Machines have no common sense.
Correlation doesn't equal causation — we all know this. Well, except robots.
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Aristo A.I. scores ‘A’ on 8th-grade science test
An A.I. named Aristo was able to use its language and logic skills to pass a standardized exam with flying colors.
Many vegetative patients are actually ‘covertly conscious’
This unsettling new understanding of vegetative patients raises medical ethics issues.
Five ways your safety depends on machine learning
Machine learning, which actively protects you from all sorts of dangers, including fires, explosions, collapses, crashes, workplace accidents, restaurant E. coli, and crime.
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Automated trucks: Blue-collar disaster or economic win?
Why Silicon Valley wants to automate 3.5 million blue-collar truck drivers out of existence.
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“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
The new design could help the robot explore disaster zones and other dangerous environments.
If machines want to make art, will humans understand it?
Empathy is what allows us to understand works of art, right?
Will coding become a basic life skill? Yes and no, say experts
Almost all experts agree that coding will become nearly as ubiquitous as literacy in the future. But the nature of coding in the future may be very different.
3 life skills that are becoming obsolete
The world's always been changing, but it feels like it's never changed so quickly as it does now. What life skills will that render obsolete?
Just one thing before you quit your job and become a coder…
IT has been one of the fastest growing and most lucrative industries for a long time. But is that going to be true in the future?