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Unraveling the AI Black Box
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, touching nearly every aspect of our lives. But for many, AI remains a mystery, a technology with mechanisms shrouded in what is often referred to as a "black box".
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, touching nearly every aspect of our lives. But for many, AI remains a mystery, a technology with mechanisms shrouded in what is often referred to as a "black box".
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The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies has significantly impacted various sectors, revolutionizing the way businesses operate.
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I've bought and built several miners, but none have been this easy. Plug it in, set it up, and let it run.
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The coronavirus is helping to erode the hype around artificial intelligence; data scientists get the axe and some ‘old-fashioned’ solutions work better.
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In the past few years, people across the world have spent more time on video chat programs like Zoom and FaceTime than ever before. These applications mimic in-person encounters by allowing users to see the people they are communicating with.
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Long Covid, with its constellation of symptoms, is proving a challenging moving target for researchers trying to conduct large studies of the syndrome.
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"I think a lot of people dismiss this kind of talk of superintelligence as science fiction because we’re stuck in this sort of carbon chauvinism idea that intelligence can only exist in biological organisms made of cells and carbon atoms." - Max Tegmark, Physicist
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Data dashboards have been an important part of pandemic response and planning. What have their developers learnt about communicating science in a crisis?
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After a nearly a year wait, I received my Morpher folding bicycle helmet last week (not bad by Indiegogo standards). It’s pretty cool and functions just like any other bicycle helmet with the exception that it folds in half to make it easier to transport. It fits into my
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I received my Thync in the mail yesterday. The most sophisticated startup to take advantage of the latest craze of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS). I was skeptical but even Johns Hopkins is using this as a therapeutic method for treating psychiatric disorders: Although tDCS is still an experimental form of
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The funniest chart of the day from Christian Rudder of OKCupid. When you consider the supermodels, the porn, the cover girls, the Lara Croft–style fembots, the Bud Light ads, and, most devious of all, the Photoshop jobs that surely these men see every day, the fact that male opinion
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Humans have a powerful capacity to process visual information, skills that date far back in our evolutionary lineage. And since the advent of science, we have employed intricate visual strategies to communicate data, often utilizing design principles that draw on these basic cognitive skills. In a modern world where we
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Rajesh Rao is looking for the computational principles underlying the brain’s remarkable ability to learn, process and store information — hoping to apply this knowledge to the task of building adaptive robotic systems and artificially intelligent agents. Some of the questions that motivate his research include: How does the brain
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I’ve started using a Mac again after many years. I still have my Vaio for work but now I can’t imagine going back to the PC. Apple makes a much higher margin on their computers than their other iDevices and I’m now understanding their ‘ecosystem’ strategy. They
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Every few weeks I meet up with a group to brainstorm ideas that we can send to the White House as concerned citizens. We are currently discussing energy policy and energy storage – batteries in particular. Battery technology has not changed much in the past 200 years.