The flow of reports about the impact of automation, mostly dire, continues. The latest is from StartupAUS, Australia's national startup advocacy group.
Economics & Business
Aug 2, 2016
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IBM's California research lab sits atop a green hill here, 15 miles south of downtown San Jose.
Computer Sciences
May 5, 2016
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Computers may trounce humans at games like chess and Go, but there's one game we've still got a lock on: quantum physics. Scientists who had people play an online video game that mimicked a troublesome quantum mechanical ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 17, 2016
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When a person's intelligence is tested, there are exams. IQ tests, general knowledge quizzes, SATs.
Computer Sciences
Mar 16, 2016
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High-tech automation is eliminating jobs like Pac-Man gobbling yellow dots. According to a 2013 study by the Oxford Martin School, 47 percent of U.S. jobs are susceptible to takeover by machines in the coming decades. Whether ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 8, 2015
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Researchers from the School of Interactive Computing and the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines developed a new method that teaches computers to "see" and understand what humans do in a typical day.
Computer Sciences
Oct 9, 2015
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European computer scientists have developed a way to "read" web addresses in images that could improve filters for blocking pornographic, gambling and other sites. They provide details in the new issue of the International ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 1, 2015
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Human learning is a complex, sometimes mysterious process. Most of us have had experiences where we have struggled to learn something new, but also times when we've picked something up nearly effortlessly.
Computer Sciences
Aug 11, 2015
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Can an algorithm pass for an author? Can a robot rock the house? A series of contests at Dartmouth College is about to find out.
Computer Sciences
Jul 5, 2015
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The agency that allowed hackers linked to China to steal private information about nearly every federal employee—and detailed personal histories of millions with security clearances—failed for years to take basic steps ...
Security
Jun 16, 2015
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