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Playing Hide-and-Seek, Machines Invent New Tools

By Stephen Ornes
November 18, 2019
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After millions of games, machine learning algorithms found creative solutions and unexpected new strategies that could transfer to the real world.

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Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence

By Matthew Hutson
November 6, 2019
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By ignoring their goals, evolutionary algorithms have solved longstanding challenges in artificial intelligence.

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A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced

By Jordana Cepelewicz
October 22, 2019
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Researchers have discovered a surprising mathematical relationship in the brain’s representations of sensory information, with possible applications to AI research.

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Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?

By John Pavlus
October 17, 2019
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A tool known as BERT can now beat humans on advanced reading-comprehension tests. But it’s also revealed how far AI has to go.

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Artificial Intelligence Takes On Earthquake Prediction

By Ashley Smart
September 19, 2019
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After successfully predicting laboratory earthquakes, a team of geophysicists has applied a machine learning algorithm to quakes in the Pacific Northwest.

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Computers and Humans ‘See’ Differently. Does It Matter?

By Kevin Hartnett
September 17, 2019
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In some ways, machine vision is superior to human vision. In other ways, it may never catch up.

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The Anthropologist of Artificial Intelligence

By John Pavlus
August 26, 2019
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Iyad Rahwan’s radical idea: The best way to understand algorithms is to observe their behavior in the wild.

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His Artificial Intelligence Sees Inside Living Cells

By John Pavlus
July 24, 2019
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The computer vision scientist Greg Johnson is building systems that can recognize organelles on sight and show the dynamics of living cells more clearly than microscopy can.

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Curious About Consciousness? Ask the Self-Aware Machines

By John Pavlus
July 11, 2019
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Consciousness is a famously hard problem, so Hod Lipson is starting from the basics: with self-aware robots that can help us understand how we think.


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