Consumer & Gadgets
Users typically react to social media outages with angry tirades and barbed jokes. But researchers suggest that this lack of social media access offers a glimpse into the importance of social media not just as a tool to socialize ...
May 4, 2022
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Computer Sciences
From search engines to voice assistants, computers are getting better at understanding what we mean. That's thanks to language-processing programs that make sense of a staggering number of words, without ever being told explicitly ...
May 4, 2022
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Robotics
When artificial intelligence systems encounter scenes where objects are not fully visible, they have to make estimations based only on the visible parts of the objects. This partial information leads to detection errors, ...
Apr 19, 2022
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Computer Sciences
From chatbots that answer tax questions to algorithms that drive autonomous vehicles and dish out medical diagnoses, artificial intelligence undergirds many aspects of daily life. Creating smarter, more accurate systems requires ...
Mar 7, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
Perhaps computer vision and human vision have more in common than meets the eye?
Mar 2, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Hearing loss is a rapidly growing area of scientific research as the number of baby boomers dealing with hearing loss continues to increase as they age.
Mar 1, 2022
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Computer Sciences
The human brain is finely tuned not only to recognize particular sounds, but also to determine which direction they came from. By comparing differences in sounds that reach the right and left ear, the brain can estimate the ...
Jan 27, 2022
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Robotics
Over the past few decades, roboticists have designed a variety of robots to assist humans. These include robots that could assist the elderly and serve as companions to improve their wellbeing and quality of life.
Robotics
Researchers at University of Michigan have recently developed a bi-directional model that can predict how much both humans and robotic agents can be trusted in situations that involve human-robot collaboration. This model, ...
Computer Sciences
Most of us benefit every day from the fact computers can now "understand" us when we speak or write. Yet few of us have paused to consider the potentially damaging ways this same technology may be shaping our culture.
Jun 1, 2021
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