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Robotics
An algorithm for optimizing the cost and efficiency of human-robot collaborative assembly lines
Robots are rapidly making their way into a variety of settings, including industrial and manufacturing facilities. So far, they have shown great potential for speeding up and automating a number of manufacturing processes ...
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Computer Sciences
Evolvable neural units that can mimic the brain's synaptic plasticity
Machine learning techniques are designed to mathematically emulate the functions and structure of neurons and neural networks in the brain. However, biological neurons are very complex, which makes artificially replicating ...
Jan 14, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial intelligence can deepen social inequality. Here are 5 ways to prevent this
From Google searches and dating sites to detecting credit card fraud, artificial intelligence (AI) keeps finding new ways to creep into our lives. But can we trust the algorithms that drive it?
Jan 13, 2021
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Computer Sciences

Tweaking AI software to function like a human brain improves computer's learning ability
Computer-based artificial intelligence can function more like human intelligence when programmed to use a much faster technique for learning new objects, say two neuroscientists who designed such a model that was designed ...
Jan 12, 2021
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Computer Sciences

A framework to assess the importance of variables for different predictive models
Two researchers at Duke University have recently devised a useful approach to examine how essential certain variables are for increasing the reliability/accuracy of predictive models. Their paper, published in Nature Machine ...
Jan 12, 2021 feature
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Machine learning accelerates discovery of materials for use in industrial processes
New research led by researchers at the University of Toronto (U of T) and Northwestern University employs machine learning to craft the best building blocks in the assembly of framework materials for use in a targeted application.
Jan 12, 2021
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Engineering

Advanced tools reveal critical infrastructure connections to mitigate disasters
A cross-platform Argonne collaboration is optimizing a tool developed after Hurricane Maria to find essential connections between critical infrastructure that will help owners and operators plan for and mitigate a variety ...
Jan 12, 2021
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Computer Sciences

We wouldn't be able to control superintelligent machines
We are fascinated by machines that can control cars, compose symphonies, or defeat people at chess, Go, or Jeopardy! While more progress is being made all the time in Artificial Intelligence (AI), some scientists and philosophers ...
Jan 11, 2021
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Computer Sciences

Building a testing-free future
It's common sense: when you write software, you check your work. Testing is a carryover solution from all the other tools we've engineered throughout history, and it's a cornerstone of quality software design. And yet, as ...
Jan 11, 2021
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Computer Sciences

Accelerating AI computing to the speed of light
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are already an integral part of our everyday lives online. For example, search engines such as Google use intelligent ranking algorithms, and video streaming services such as Netflix ...
Jan 11, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors

Team creates hybrid chips with processors and memory to run AI on battery-powered devices
Smartwatches and other battery-powered electronics would be even smarter if they could run AI algorithms. But efforts to build AI-capable chips for mobile devices have so far hit a wall—the so-called "memory wall" that ...
Jan 11, 2021
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Diffractive networks improve optical image classification accuracy
Recently, there has been a reemergence of interest in optical computing platforms for artificial intelligence-related applications. Optics is ideally suited for realizing neural network models because of the high speed, large ...
Jan 11, 2021
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Computer Sciences

A model that can create unique Chinese calligraphy art
Over the past few years, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced and sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) tools, which can tackle a wide variety of tasks. This includes generative adversarial networks ...
Jan 08, 2021 feature
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