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Elon Musk on Mission to Link Human Brains With Computers in Four Years: Report

April 26, 2017April 26, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: MSN/Reuters, 4/22/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Neuralink Corporation hopes to develop a micron-sized device that could connect the human brain and a machine interface. The initial goal is to help those with…

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Paralysed Man Moves Arm Using Power of Thought in World First

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: The Guardian, 3/29/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Lead author Dr. Bolu Ajiboye and a team at Case Western Reserve University developed an experimental procedure that re-enables motor function in a paralyzed patient's…

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DACC and Virgin Galactic Team Up to Explore Virtual Reality

February 24, 2017February 23, 2017 by Anna Clark

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Published By: Las Cruces Sun-News, 2/10/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Doña Ana Community College (DACC) and Virgin Galactic are teaming up to create a new educational outreach program. The partnership focuses on new virtual…

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Voice Control Everywhere

February 20, 2017February 20, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: MIT News, 2/13/2017 >> View the Article << Summary A chip designed by MIT researchers may reduce the level of energy required to use speech recognition. This dedicated, application-specific speech-recognition chip will use up…

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Meeting of the Minds for Machine Intelligence

December 5, 2016December 13, 2016 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: MIT News Office, 11/22/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Industry leaders and computer scientists are pushing for more use of machine intelligence so that machines can aid doctors, business corporations, investors and many…

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Google’s DeepMind AI Can Lip-Read TV Shows Better Than a Pro

December 2, 2016December 13, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: New Scientist, 11/21/2016 >> View the Article << Summary The researchers at Google have trained an AI how to lip-read TV shows. Such an AI system could be used to help humans communicate with…

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Faster Programs, Easier Programming

November 10, 2016November 11, 2016 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: MIT News, 11/7/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers from MIT's CSAIL and Stony Brook University are researching ways to make using multi-core computers easier. They have created a method for describing, in…

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Can We Open the Black Box of AI?

October 13, 2016October 13, 2016 by Anna Clark

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Published By: Nature International Weekly Journal of Science, 10/5/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Scientists attempt to understand how computers think and learn in order to verify the reliability of large scale data analysis. This article covers…

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A Beauty Contest Was Judged by AI and the Robots Didn’t Like Dark Skin

September 9, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: The Guardian, 9/8/2016 Summary: Beauty.AI developed a set of algorithms to judge photos according to five factors in human standards of beauty; it disproportionately chose photos of white people. The article discusses the potential…

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Inferring Urban Travel Patterns From Cellphone Data

September 5, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: MIT News, 8/29/2016 Summary: Researchers are using data on the locations people make calls from to model the movement patterns of Boston commuters; the system may replace or supplement surveys of residents. The article…

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Only Some of @realDonaldTrump’s Tweets Are Actually Donald Trump

August 26, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Scientific American, 8/18/2016 Summary: Data scientists used post metadata and patterns in post format to show that tweets from @realDonaldTrump come from different people, and sentiment analysis to show that the tweets from Trump…

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Paraplegics Take a Step to Regain Movement

August 17, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Duke Today, 8/10/2016 Summary: Patients using brain-machine interfaces to control robotic prosthetics, along with virtual-reality devices that simulated moving their own limbs, were unexpectedly able to regain some actual control of their own limbs,…

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