Machine learning & AI news
Electronics & Semiconductors
'Origami' testing app could help tackle spread of malaria
A new approach to tackling the spread of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, which combines affordable, easy-to-administer blood tests with machine learning and unbreakable encryption, has generated encouraging early results in ...
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Telecom
Predicting wireless traffic using AI could improve the reliability of future wireless communication
The prediction of future wireless traffic volumes using artificial intelligence (AI) would allow communication systems to automatically adjust network resources to maximize reliability. KAUST researchers have now developed ...
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Computer Sciences
Platform teaches nonexperts to use machine learning
Machine-learning algorithms are used to find patterns in data that humans wouldn't otherwise notice, and are being deployed to help inform decisions big and small—from COVID-19 vaccination development to Netflix recommendations.
Jul 30, 2021
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Automotive
Autonomous vehicles learning to drive by mimicking others
Self-driving cars are powered by machine learning algorithms that require vast amounts of driving data in order to function safely. But if self-driving cars could learn to drive in the same way that babies learn to walk—by ...
Jul 30, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Equity principles introduced into the algorithm development process for public health modeling
In the U.S., the place where one was born, one's social and economic background, the neighborhoods in which one spends one's formative years, and where one grows old are factors that account for a quarter to 60% of deaths ...
Jul 30, 2021
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Computer Sciences
How will machine learning change science?
Machine learning has burst onto the scene in the past two decades and will be a defining technology of the future. It is transforming large sectors of society, including healthcare, education, transport, and food and industrial ...
Jul 30, 2021
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Internet
Twitter to offer 'bounty' to find algorithmic bias
Twitter said Friday it would offer a cash "bounty" to users and researchers to help root out algorithmic bias on the social media platform.
Jul 30, 2021
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Robotics
Less communication among robots allows them to make better decisions
New research that could help us use swarms of robots to tackle forest fires, conduct search and rescue operations at sea and diagnose problems inside the human body, has been published by engineers at the University of Sheffield.
Jul 29, 2021
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Security
Honeypot security technique can also stop attacks in natural language processing
As online fake news detectors and spam filters become more sophisticated, so do attackers' methods to trick them—including attacks through the "universal trigger." In this learning-based method, an attacker uses a phrase ...
Jul 29, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Optimizing phase change materials could reduce power plant water consumption
The food-water-energy nexus dictates that there is a direct link between these three necessities, and stressing one directly impacts the supply of the other two. As the population grows, human demand for energy and food has ...
Jul 29, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
First machine-learning approach to forensic DNA analysis
As the field of forensics evolves, more complex evidence is being processed with greater precision, sensitivity and speed than ever before. To give a real-life example, consider a bank robbery where the perpetrator uses a ...
Jul 29, 2021
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Robotics
A new taxonomy to characterize human grasp types in videos
Over the past few decades, roboticists and computer scientists have developed a variety of data-based techniques for teaching robots how to complete different tasks. To achieve satisfactory results, however, these techniques ...
Jul 28, 2021 feature
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Machine learning & AI
Machine learning applications need less data than has been assumed
A combined team of researchers from the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta has found that at least some machine learning applications can learn from far fewer examples than has been assumed. In their ...
Jul 28, 2021 report
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