Artificial Photoreceptors Return Vision to Blind Mice
Blindness in many people is caused by diseased rod and cone cells that are responsible for turning light into electric signals.
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AI Has a Hallucination Problem That’s Proving Tough to Fix
TECH COMPANIES ARE rushing to infuse everything with artificial intelligence, driven by big leaps in the power of machine learning software.
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Amazon Go is finally a go: Sensor-infused store opens to the public Monday, with no checkout lines
The first Amazon Go grocery and convenience store is open to the public Seattle — letting any person with an Amazon account, the Amazon Go app and a willingness to give up more of their personal privacy than usual simply grab anything they want and walk out, without going through a checkout line.
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3D vision and AI are about to solve the biggest problem in construction | ZDNet
Construction is one of the largest industries in the world, accounting for $10 trillion annually, about 13 percent of global GDP.
But while productivity in adjacent industries like petroleum and mining has skyrocketed with the advent of new technologies, productivity in the construction sector has remained flat.
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New AI tells masterpieces from forgeries by only looking at brush strokes
AIs might not know much about art, but they can easily tell apart one style from the other — even when they’re terribly similar.
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This AI Turns Unrecognizable Pixelated Photos Into Crystal-Clear Images
Remember all the times you snickered when some TV character zoomed in on a photo and said “Enhance!” turning a blurred mess into a highly detailed, razor-sharp image?
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Artificial intelligence: It’s about to cause a major upheaval in jobs | ZDNet
There’s much concern about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on jobs and the economy. And while it’s difficult to know for certain which types of jobs will likely be eliminated by AI, one thing is for sure: the technology will have a profound affect on a range of skills.
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Google’s AI Wizard Unveils a New Twist on Neural Networks
IF YOU WANT to blame someone for the hoopla around artificial intelligence, 69-year-old Google researcher Geoff Hinton is a good candidate.
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AI bot rips off human eyes, easily cracks web CAPTCHA codes. Ouch • The Register
Computer software that mimics how the human visual cortex works can solve text-based CAPTCHA challenges, the image recognition tasks often used by websites to differentiate human visitors from spam bots.+
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Artificial intelligence can say yes to the dress
The sometimes glamorous job of modeling may be going the way of elevator operator.
Online fashion tech startup Vue.ai is selling technology that analyzes pieces of clothing and automatically generates an image of the garment on a person of any size, shape, or wearing any kind of shoes.
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Boffins craft code to find protesters on social networks
Mining social networks for every scrap of information about our online lives is now common practice for marketers, academics, government agencies, and so on.
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