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Ask AI: How not to kill online conversations
01/03/2018 - 09:00 Artificial Intelligence, Networks, ComputingA new artificial intelligence could tell whether your next post to an online forum will engage others or fall flat.
Computer scientist Qiaozhu Mei of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and colleagues trained a machine-learning program on about 63,000 Reddit threads to learn what dialog-ending responses look like.
This kind of chat-savvy computer code, described in a paper...
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New setup for image recognition AI lets a program think on its feet
12/04/2017 - 08:00 Artificial Intelligence, Computing, TechnologyArtificial intelligence is getting some better perspective. Like a person who can read someone else’s penmanship without studying lots of handwriting samples, next-gen image recognition AI can more easily identify familiar sights in new situations.
Made from a new type of virtual building block called capsules, these programs may cut down the enormous amount of data needed to train...
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Quantum computers take a step forward with a 50-qubit prototype
11/10/2017 - 09:00 Quantum Physics, ComputingBit by qubit, scientists are edging closer to the realm where quantum computers will reign supreme.
IBM is now testing a prototype quantum processor with 50 quantum bits, or qubits, the company announced November 10. That’s around the number needed to meet a sought-after milestone: demonstrating that quantum computers can perform specific tasks that are beyond the reach of traditional...
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Quantum computing steps forward with 50-qubit prototype
11/10/2017 - 09:00 Quantum Physics, ComputingBit by qubit, scientists are edging closer to the realm where quantum computers will reign supreme.
IBM is testing a prototype quantum processor with 50 quantum bits, or qubits, the company announced November 10. That’s about the number needed to meet a sought-after milestone: demonstrating that quantum computers can perform specific tasks that are beyond the reach of traditional...
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The newest AlphaGo mastered the game with no human input
10/18/2017 - 13:00 Artificial Intelligence, Computing, TechnologyAlphaGo just leveled up.
The latest version of the computer program, dubbed AlphaGo Zero, is the first to master Go, a notoriously complex Chinese board game, without human guidance. Its predecessor — dubbed AlphaGo Lee when it became the first computer program with artificial intelligence, or AI, to defeat a human world champion Go player (SN Online: 3/15/16) — had to study millions of...