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Watch a Deep-Learning Bot Learn (and Fail) to Run
For most animals, walking is instinctual and they're on their legs just minutes out of the womb. For humans, and for robots, it's a trickier proposition that takes a little bit of learning. But with...
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My Advice To Anyone Starting A Business Is To Remember That Someday I Will...
As you might imagine, I often get asked by young entrepreneurs for advice on how to start a business. What many seem to want is some sort of trick, some magic set of tools that will allow them to...
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Robots are changing our lives. They’ve been around for more than five decades helping people to do things that are typically tedious, repetitive, dirty and/or downright dangerous. The robotics industry...
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IBM scientists have captured 330TB of uncompressed data into a tiny cartridge
In a new world record, scientists at IBM have captured 330 terabytes of uncompressed data — or the equivalent of 330 million books — into a cartridge that can fit into the palm of your hand. The record...
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Spinal Injury Patients Could Regain Mobility Through Brain-Computer Interfaces
In Brief Researchers are developing an implantable brain chip to bypass problems in the spinal cord and using a brain-computer interface to allow the chip to send stronger signals and last longer in...
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3 Exponentials to Watch
In the third of Singularity University’s Future of Everything YouTube series with Jason Silva, Silva discusses “The Big Three” exponential technologies, which he defines as GNR: genetics,...
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Aussies Win Amazon Robotics Challenge
Amazon has a problem, and that problem is humans. Amazon needs humans, lots of them. But humans, as we all know, are the most unreasonable part of any business, constantly demanding things like lights...
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In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human...
“We’ve always said in the past gene editing shouldn’t be done, mostly because it couldn’t be done safely,” said Richard Hynes, a “What our report said was, once the technical hurdles are cleared, then...
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The Technology Policy Institute solicits theory and empirical papers on all aspects of the economics and policy implications of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The papers will be...
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letter from Ray
column: letters from Ray date: May 27, 2017 topic: Adopting a universal basic income for all people can help society think creatively with new ideas, develop new industries — and free-up people to work...
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China’s Plan to ‘Lead’ in AI: Purpose, Prospects, and Problems
The present global verve about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies has resonated in China as much as anywhere on earth. With the State Council’sissuance of the “New...
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Explaining Programming to 6 Years Old Kids
The task: explain what you do at work to a group of 6 years old kids. Level: high (my own daughter was among the kids). Many people shared their ideas of such “lectures” – you can find some really...
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When Will AI Be Better Than Humans at Everything? 352 AI Experts Answer
Predictions of when machines will make us obsolete seem to come either from AI evangelists or doom-mongers with little practical experience of the field. Now though, researchers have carried out the...
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Four ways anyone can be a scientist during the solar eclipse
Millions of people are expected to turn their heads skyward to watch the Great American Eclipse on August 21. You might be one of them. But did you know that you can enjoy this natural wonder while...
View ArticleGulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ is the largest ever measured
NEWS & FEATURES June outlook foretold New Jersey-sized area of low oxygen Scientists have determined this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone,” an area of low oxygen that can kill fish and marine...
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The Importance of Liberal Arts In The AI Economy
Scott Hartley is a venture capitalist and author of THE FUZZY AND THE TECHIE, a Financial Times business book of the month, and finalist for the Financial Times and McKinsey & Company's Bracken...
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The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe
Two weeks later, after the second launch, everyone headed home. The show was over — both spacecraft were performing flawlessly — but behind the scenes, the mission, on a tight budget, lagged in hiring...
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This DIY Alarm Clock Rips Your Sheets Off
Heavy sleepers might need a little something stronger than your standard alarm clock. Some ask you to throw them against a wall, while others roll around the floor wailing, but none of them take direct...
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Teenage Whiz Kid Invents an AI System to Diagnose Her Grandfather's Eye Disease
When 16-year-old Kavya Kopparapu wasn’t attending conferences, giving speeches, presiding over her school’s bioinformatics society, organizing a research symposium, playing piano, and running a...
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Physicists Prove 40-Year-Old Prediction With Incredible Neutrino Observation
Physicists make a lot of statements about stuff they hope will happen, but might not happen in their lifetimes. One physicist, for example, thought that in certain cases, the incredibly common but...
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