Facebook, Google and Microsoft are tapping the power of a vintage computer gaming chip to raise your smartphone's IQ with artificially intelligent programs that recognize faces and voices, translate conversations on the fly ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 25, 2016
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MIT researchers have designed a computer system that learns how to play a text-based computer game with no prior assumptions about how language works. Although the system can't complete the game as a whole, its ability to ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 24, 2015
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Deep learning is possibly the most exciting branch of contemporary machine learning. Complex image analysis, speech recognition and self-driving cars are just a few popular examples of a multitude of new applications where ...
General Physics
Sep 22, 2015
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Only a few years ago, it would have seemed improbable to assume that a piece of technology could quickly and accurately understand most of what you say – let alone translate it into another language.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 7, 2015
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You may have seen some of the "nightmarish" images generated by Google's aptly named Inceptionism project. Here we have freakish fusions of dogs and knights (as in the image above), dumbells with arms attached (see below) ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 7, 2015
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If you're surfing the web and you come across a photo of the Mariners' Felix Hernandez on the pitchers' mound at Safeco Field, chances are you'll quickly interpret that you are looking at a picture of a baseball player on ...
Computer Sciences
May 29, 2015
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Computers are learning to recognize objects with near-human ability. But Cornell researchers have found that computers, like humans, can be fooled by optical illusions, which raises security concerns and opens new avenues ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 23, 2015
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The immense popularity of social media seems to have redefined "privacy" from the sense of keeping information secret to being in control over how information is shared – among friends, colleagues, companies or the government. ...
Internet
Dec 12, 2014
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Can you tell the difference between the two breeds of corgis? If you're like many, you probably are barely even aware that such dogs exist, let alone the fact that there are two—and only two—kinds of corgis. Add the detail ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 16, 2014
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