Nature and Biodiversity
Honeybees are a hot commodity - and thieves are cashing in
Bee thefts have become a common and very expensive problem in California, as thieves pounce on unattended hives during pollination season.
Dave Gershgorn is an artificial intelligence reporter at Quartz.
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Health and Healthcare Systems
We trained an algorithm to detect cancer in just 2 hours
AI is helping medical professionals by accelerating diagnostics and treatment plans.
Emerging Technologies
Scientists have built a robotic 'dragon'
DRAGON stands for Dual-rotor embedded multilink Robot with the Ability of multi-deGree-of-freedom aerial transfromatiON.
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Forget the space race, the AI race is just beginning
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, there's no telling which nation will dominate the world of automation.
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Google has created an AI that sounds indistinguishable from humans
A research paper published by Google details a text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2, which claims near-human accuracy at imitating audio of a person speaking from text.
These are the technology firsts that have shaped modern life as we know it
Quartz has collated the technology “firsts” that paved the way for modern life as we know it.
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Germany has developed a set of ethical guidelines for self-driving cars
The German federal government will adopt new guidelines for self-driving cars.
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Researchers have made AI that can link sound, sight and text to understand the world
MIT and Google researchers have made AI that can link sound, sight, and text to understand the world.
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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg disagree: What exactly is AI?
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg can’t agree on what AI is, because the industry can't agree on what the term really means.
Arts and Culture
Silent films? The gender gap in American movie dialogue
A Google analysis of America’s most popular movies found men are seen and heard nearly twice as often as women.
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Worried about AI taking your job? It's already happening in Japan
Japanese white-collar workers are already being replaced by artificial intelligence.
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3 ways the White House wants to make sure we're not ruled by robots
Two new White House reports have outlined the US government's AI strategy.