Computer Sciences
An interdisciplinary team of Cornell and Harvard University researchers developed a machine learning tool to parse quantum matter and make crucial distinctions in the data, an approach that will help scientists unravel the ...
Jul 7, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Computer science researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a sarcasm detector.
May 7, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Researchers at Tampere University have successfully used artificial intelligence to predict nonlinear dynamics that take place when ultrashort light pulses interact with matter. This novel solution can be used for efficient ...
Feb 19, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Introductory statistics courses teach us that, when fitting a model to some data, we should have more data than free parameters to avoid the danger of overfitting—fitting noisy data too closely, and thereby failing to fit ...
Mar 2, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
The work of a science writer, including this one, includes reading journal papers filled with specialized technical terminology, and figuring out how to explain their contents in language that readers without a scientific ...
Apr 18, 2019
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Computer Sciences
A child who has never seen a pink elephant can still describe one—unlike a computer. "The computer learns from data," says Jiajun Wu, a Ph.D. student at MIT. "The ability to generalize and recognize something you've never ...
Apr 3, 2019
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Other
Computers have become so smart during the past 20 years that people don't think twice about chatting with digital assistants like Alexa and Siri or seeing their friends automatically tagged in Facebook pictures.
Mar 27, 2019
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Computer Sciences
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. ...
Sep 18, 2018
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Computer Sciences
Artificial intelligence is now so smart that silicon brains frequently outthink people.
Jul 20, 2018
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Computer Sciences
Artificial intelligence is now so smart that silicon brains frequently outthink humans.
Jul 19, 2018
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