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Facebook researchers build a dataset to train personalized dialogue agents

Researchers at Facebook have recently compiled a dataset of 5 million personas and 700 million persona-based dialogues. This database could be used to train end-to-end dialogue systems, resulting in more engaging and rich ...

Computer Sciences

4 hours ago
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German firm's 7 commandments for ethical AI

German business software giant SAP published Tuesday an ethics code to govern its research into artificial intelligence (AI), aiming to prevent the technology infringing on people's rights, displacing workers or inheriting ...

Computer Sciences

3 hours ago
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Scientists use artificial neural networks to predict new stable materials

Artificial neural networks—algorithms inspired by connections in the brain—have "learned" to perform a variety of tasks, from pedestrian detection in self-driving cars, to analyzing medical images, to translating languages. ...

Computer Sciences

3 hours ago
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Bombardier electric hybrid train to keep Germany's green ambitions on track

The conversation around a greener future and transportation weighs heavily in the court of electric cars, with ample input from car vendors over research, development and models in the wings. What about trains? Can a battery ...

Energy & Green Tech

8 hours ago
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Meet the new guardians of the ocean – robot jellyfish

New robot jellyfish could be the key to monitoring and caring for fragile parts of the world's oceans without damaging them.

Robotics

4 hours ago
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Machine-learning system tackles speech and object recognition, all at once

MIT computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an image and an audio caption, the model will highlight in real-time the relevant ...

Computer Sciences

6 hours ago
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Japan eager to be on board vertical-takeoff 'flying cars'

Electric drones booked through smartphones pick people up from office rooftops, shortening travel time by hours, reducing the need for parking and clearing smog from the air.

Hi Tech & Innovation

11 hours ago
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Optimal resource allocation for UAV communication systems in disaster management

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) and Duy Tan University (DTU) have been collaborating on a project aimed at improving the communication systems of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Their research was awarded ...

Engineering Computer Sciences

Sep 17, 2018
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Bike-path made from recycled plastic opens in the Netherlands

Officials with the Dutch city of Zwolle have announced the opening of a new bike path made using recycled plastic. The bike path is part of a nationwide effort to recycle more user end products. The bike path was made using ...

Energy & Green Tech

Sep 17, 2018
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TINY cancer detection device proves effective in Uganda testing

Its name is an acronym used to convey its size, but researchers at Cornell Engineering and Weill Cornell Medicine are hoping their hand-held cancer detection device's impact in the developing world is anything but small.

Engineering

Sep 17, 2018
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Multi-joint, personalized soft exosuit breaks new ground

In the future, smart textile-based soft robotic exosuits could be worn by soldiers, fire fighters and rescue workers to help them traverse difficult terrain and arrive fresh at their destinations so that they can perform ...

Robotics

Sep 17, 2018
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SapFix cutting cool path toward eliminating debugging-code drudgery

Facebook has come up with something called SapFix and their announcement signifies a welcome measure of support for debugging task drudgery; SapFix can rely on artificial intelligence and come up with some answers that save ...

Computer Sciences

Sep 17, 2018
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Firmware weakness extends red carpet for cold boot attacks

"The chilling reality of cold boot attacks" is the title of a video posted by F-Secure on Thursday. The chilling reality is that savvy security mischief-makers can still perform the attacks, as two researchers learned recently.

Security

Sep 16, 2018
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Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google tracking

Facebook and other companies routinely track your online surfing habits to better target ads at you. Two web browsers now want to help you fight back in what's becoming an escalating privacy arms race.

Security

Sep 14, 2018
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Defense against adversarial attacks using machine learning and cryptography

Researchers at the University of Geneva have recently developed a new defense mechanism that works by bridging machine learning with cryptography. The new system, outlined in a paper pre-published on arXiv, is based on Kerckhoffs' ...

Computer Sciences Security

Sep 14, 2018
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Researchers explore machine learning to prevent defects in metal 3-D-printed parts in real time

For years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory engineers and scientists have used an array of sensors and imaging techniques to analyze the physics and processes behind metal 3-D printing in an ongoing effort to build ...

Engineering

Sep 14, 2018
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Robotic trousers could help disabled people walk again

Could the answer to mobility problems one day be as easy as pulling on a pair of trousers? A research team led by Bristol University's Professor Jonathan Rossiter has recently unveiled a prototype pair of robotic trousers ...

Robotics

Sep 14, 2018
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GapFlyt gives flying quadrotors a lesson in bees

Researchers have come up with a system that is bio-inspired to help drones pass through small gaps. The researchers tested their system and wrote an analysis in a paper which is published in IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters.

Robotics Engineering

Sep 14, 2018
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Story ending generation using incremental encoding

Researchers at the AI Lab of Tsinghua University have recently developed an incremental encoder-based model that can generate story endings. An incremental encoder is a type of encoding compression algorithm that is often ...

Computer Sciences

Sep 13, 2018
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New biofuel production system powered by a community of algae and fungi

MSU scientists have a new proof of concept for a biofuel production platform that uses two species of marine algae and soil fungi. It lowers cultivation and harvesting costs and increases productivity, factors that currently ...

Energy & Green Tech

Sep 13, 2018
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