Accelerating The Promise of Technology-Driven Agriculture
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View ArticleMIT"€™s Daniela Rus is leading a robotics revolution
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View ArticleMaryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win maths' Fields Medal, dies
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View ArticleHelp EFF Track the Progress of AI and Machine Learning
The field of machine learning and artificial intelligence is making rapid progress. Many people are starting to ask what a world with intelligent computers will look like. But what is the ratio of hype...
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This kind of A.I. is spreading to thousands of domains (not just loans), and as it does, it will eliminate many jobs. Bank tellers, customer service representatives, telemarketers, stock and bond...
View ArticleThe one law of robotics: Humans must flourish
The science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote about controlling intelligent machines with the three laws of robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to...
View ArticleJefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check
IBM’s Watson unit is receiving heat today in the form of a scathing equity research report from Jefferies’ James Kisner. The group believes that IBM’s investment into Watson will struggle to return...
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Imagine replacing a damaged eye with a window directly into the brain — one that communicates with the visual part of the cerebral cortex by reading from a million individual neurons and simultaneously...
View ArticleElon Musk Warns Nation’s Governors of Looming AI Threat, Calls for Regulations
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View ArticleRobotic Picking and the Beauty of Human Hand-Eye Coordination
The human hand still beats the robot when it comes to picking, but the gap is closing fast. Learn how robots are tackling this complex challenge and how close we are to commercial viability of robots...
View ArticleStudy By MIT Economist: U.S. Has Regressed To A Third-World Nation For Most...
Institute For New Economic The richest large economy in the world, says Peter Temin, Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, is coming to have an economic and political structure more like a developing...
View ArticleCo4Robots (Horizon2020)
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View ArticlePeering into neural networks
Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing large sets of training data, are responsible for today’s best-performing artificial intelligence systems, from speech...
View ArticleRay Kurzweil: A Strategy for Keeping the World Safe From AI
Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist famous for forecasting the pace of technology and predicting the world of tomorrow. In this video, Kurzweil discusses AI ethics and risk. Films and...
View ArticleChina may match or beat America in AI
Its deep pool of data may let it lead in artificial intelligence AT THE start of this year, two straws in the wind caught the attention of those who follow the development of artificial intelligence...
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The problem is almost certain to get worse, spreading to even more areas of life as bots are trained to become better at mimicking humans. Given the degree to which product reviews have been swamped by...
View ArticleThe future of artificial intelligence: two experts disagree
Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionise our lives, drive our cars, diagnose our health problems, and lead us into a new future where thinking machines do things that we’re yet to...
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