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·May 22, 2016·2 min read

Animal Training Techniques Teach Robots New Tricks

Researchers are using methods used for training animals to help teach robots how to perform new tasks.

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·May 18, 2016·3 min read

How Your Brain Learns to Ride the Subway

Researchers investigate how the human brain implements hierarchical structures in order to design more clever algorithms for machine learning.

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·May 11, 2016·5 min read

Crowd Augmented Cognition: Combining Human and Machine Intelligence to Accelerate Learning

Researchers have designed crowdsourcing frameworks that combine the best qualities of machine learning and human intelligence, in order to allow distributed groups of workers to perform complicated cognitive tasks.

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·April 20, 2016·4 min read

Pinpointing Brain Area That Recognizes Facial Expressions

A new study reports researchers have identified the area of the brain they believe to be responsible for recognizing human facial expressions.

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·April 13, 2016·6 min read

Blurring the Boundary Between Man and Machines: Are Humans the New Supercomputer?

When it comes to the battle between man and machines, human skills are still superior in some areas, a new study reports.

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·April 12, 2016·3 min read

How the Brain Repurposes Itself to Learn Scientific Concepts

A new study reveals how the brain repurposes existing neural systems to learn scientific concepts.

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·February 3, 2016·5 min read

New Chip Could Enable Mobile Devices to Implement Neural Networks Modeled on Human Brain

Researchers have designed a new, energy efficient chip that can implement neural networks into mobile devices.

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·December 31, 2015·3 min read

Human-Machine Superintelligence Can Solve the World’s Most Dire Problems

A combination of computer and human intelligence may be what we need to help solve the world's most pressing problems, from climate change to geopolitical conflict, a new study reports.

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·December 29, 2015·5 min read

A New Method for Analyzing Synaptic Density

Researchers have developed a machine learning tool that could help further understanding of synaptic activity in learning and neurodevelopment.

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·December 24, 2015·6 min read

Machines That Learn Like Humans

Researchers report AI could learn to recognize objects in from just a few examples and may better model human cognition.

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·December 11, 2015·5 min read

Computer System Passes Visual Turing Test

Researchers have developed a computer system with the ability to produce a variation of characters in an unfamiliar writing system. The symbols are indistinguishable from those created by humans.