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To Win the Next War, the Pentagon Needs Nerds
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the US Department of Defense turned to a team of machine learning and artificial intelligence experts…
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Elon Musk’s Plan to Open Source the Twitter Algorithm Won’t Solve Anything
“In this age of machine learning, it isn’t the algorithms, it’s the data,” says David Karger, a professor and computer…
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The Future of the Web Is Marketing Copy Generated by Algorithms
As we move further into the 21st century, more and more aspects of our lives are being controlled by algorithms.…
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This App Can Diagnose Rare Diseases From a Child’s Face
In 2012, Moti Shniberg sold his face recognition startup to Facebook and started looking for a new challenge. “We wanted…
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YouTube’s Captions Insert Explicit Language in Kids’ Videos
Nearly 400,000 people subscribe to the YouTube account Rob the Robot – Learning Videos For Children. In one 2020 video,…
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How Job Applicants Try to Hack Résumé-Reading Software
Last year, Shirin Nilizadeh got a call from a friend who had been worn down looking for a job. Her…
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A New Trick Lets Artificial Intelligence See in 3D
The current wave of artificial intelligence can be traced back to 2012, and an academic contest that measured how well…
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Now Physical Jobs Are Going Remote, Too
“There’s just no way this isn’t going to explode as a category,” says Matt Beane, an assistant professor at UC…
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When It Comes to Health Care, AI Has a Long Way to Go
That’s because health data such as medical imaging, vital signs, and data from wearable devices can vary for reasons unrelated…
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This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure
The way predictions raced ahead of experiments on Omicron’s spike protein reflects a recent sea change in molecular biology brought…
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