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Elon Musk’s OpenAI achieves milestones in AI learning and dexterity

Jul 30, 2018

Elon Musk’s nonprofit AI research group, OpenAI, has broken new ground in teaching a robot hand to manipulate objects, according to The Verge. For one, the researchers accomplished their goal of having the h...

Company debuts house cleaning robot with machine learning capabilities

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Jan 12, 2018

Innovation, Science

At the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, Aeolus Robotics presented their latest development – a child-sized robot that can perform a number of household cleaning tasks without any help from huma...

Google’s machine learning AI discovers two new planets in NASA’s Kepler telescope data

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Dec 18, 2017

Business, Innovation, Science

NASA and Google announced Thursday that a collaboration using advanced computer analysis of existing data has discovered two new planets in distant star systems, one of which is part of the first star system fo...

Research aims to correct mistakes and biases in AI machine learning

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Oct 27, 2017

Innovation, Science

A project launched by researchers at Columbia and Lehigh Universities has yielded effective error-correction processes, intended to correct mistakes and biases in Artificial Intelligence deep learning networks....

New software helps robots learn tasks through simple, one-time demonstrations

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May 11, 2017

Innovation, Science

A new software system, called C-LEARN, allows humans to teach robots new tasks through simple demonstrations instead of through programming. Such a technique could make it much more practical to use robots for ...

Researchers use AI to help self-driving cars interpret traffic signs at night

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Mar 24, 2017

Innovation, Science

A new step forward in artificial intelligence for self-driving vehicles promises to improve their ability to operate in low-light conditions or in poor weather. The advance would fill one of the remaining gaps ...

Computer scientists design method to root out gender and racial biases in machine learning algorithms

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Dec 19, 2016

Innovation, Science

Researchers have created a test to assess gender and racial biases in machine learning algorithms. The paper was presented at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference in Barcelona, Spain, alo...

Google announces new ‘Pixel’ smartphone, laying out clear challenge to Apple

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Oct 4, 2016

Business, Innovation, Science

Google has launched a line of smartphones, intended to compete directly with Apple’s iPhone, called Pixel and Pixel XL. This marks Google’s first smartphone release to not be associated with other manufacturers...

Google uses machine learning to guide balloons reaching frontiers of Internet access

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Sep 23, 2016

Business, Innovation, Science

The Google X lab has been launching balloons into the stratosphere in an attempt to provide internet access to underserved parts of the world. This effort is called Project Loon, and was first announced in the ...

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