Artificial Intelligence Improves Drug Combination Design
A new auto-commentary published in SLAS Technology looks at how an emerging area of artificial intelligence, specifically the analysis of small systems-of-interest specific datasets, can…
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Artificial Intelligence Helps Track Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts
Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life in the universe, or SETI. Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a…
Artificial Intelligence Uses “Self-Learning” to Make Cancer Treatment Less Toxic
Machine-learning system determines the fewest, smallest doses that could still shrink brain tumors. MIT researchers are employing novel machine-learning techniques to improve the quality of…
New AI System Identifies Personality Traits from Eye Movements
Computers are gradually learning to interpret human behaviour – and can now also do so by analysing the way people use their eyes. A team…
New Artificial Intelligence Device Identifies Objects at the Speed of Light
A team of UCLA electrical and computer engineers has created a physical artificial neural network — a device modeled on how the human brain works…
Machine-Learning Models Capture Subtle Variations in Facial Expressions
Personalized machine-learning models capture subtle variations in facial expressions to better gauge how we feel. MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a machine-learning model that…
Algorithm Learns to Recognize Full Set of Behaviors in Jelly-like Hydra
Much of what biologists have learned about animal behavior over the years has come from careful observation and painstaking notes. There could soon be an…
‘Deep Learning’ Algorithm Brings New Tools to Astronomy
A ‘deep learning’ algorithm trained on images from cosmological simulations has been surprisingly successful at classifying real galaxies in Hubble images. A machine learning method…
Machine-Learning System Uses Physics to Identify Habitable Planets
As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers search telescopic images for…
Artificial Intelligence Dramatically Improves Medical Imaging Quality
A radiologist’s ability to make accurate diagnoses from high-quality diagnostic imaging studies directly impacts patient outcome. However, acquiring sufficient data to generate the best quality…
MIT Engineers Develop Autonomous “Selfie Drone”
If you’re a rock climber, hiker, runner, dancer, or anyone who likes recording themselves while in motion, a personal drone companion can now do all…
New Chip Reduces Neural Networks’ Power Consumption by 95 Percent
Most recent advances in artificial-intelligence systems such as speech- or face-recognition programs have come courtesy of neural networks, densely interconnected meshes of simple information processors…
Engineers Develop Automated Process for Discovering Optimal Structure for Metamaterials
For decades, materials scientists have taken inspiration from the natural world. They’ll identify a biological material that has some desirable trait — such as the…
MIT Launches Intelligence Quest To Advance Human and Machine Intelligence Research
MIT today announced the launch of the MIT Intelligence Quest, an initiative to discover the foundations of human intelligence and drive the development of technological…
Is This New Design a Major Step Toward Portable AI Devices?
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can’t be beat. Packed within the squishy, football-sized organ are somewhere around 100 billion neurons….
MIT Develops a New Machine-Learning System for Analyzing Materials
Last month, three MIT materials scientists and their colleagues published a paper describing a new artificial-intelligence system that can pore through scientific papers and extract…
New Computer Systems Seek to Replicate Human Intelligence
Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center for Brains, Minds, and…
Teaching Artificial Intelligence Humor
We have a long history of yelling at our machines — cars that break down, televisions broadcasting our failing teams. But now, our machines understand us. And…