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Everywhere You Go: GE Researchers Are Building An AI Brain For Army’s Unmanned Vehicles

Dorothy Pomerantz
July 10, 2020
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Developing artificial intelligence that can obey traffic laws while navigating a 3,000-pound vehicle through busy city streets is a complex feat, and many are stepping up to address the challenge.

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You Can Teach A Computer New Tricks: How Boyhood Pets Paved This Scientist’s Approach To AI

Scott Woolley
February 25, 2020
For a man who would grow up to become a leading expert on teaching computers to think, Peter Tu spent his childhood on some unlikely hobbies. Rather than holing up in his bedroom to code, the young Tu would often run around his Toronto neighborhood with his dog or oversee the reptile pit he built in his backyard. Of particular interest to the future computer scientist were the ways his menagerie of animals learned new tricks and skills.
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Healthcare

What’s New, Doc? How Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and 3D Printing Are Helping Physicians Deliver Better Care To Patients

Maggie Sieger
August 14, 2019
Healthcare isn’t typically the first field that leaps to mind when you hear 3D printing, artificial intelligence or virtual reality. But all three technologies are in fact making inroads into the field. They’re allowing doctors to free up their schedules and dedicate more of their time to patients — and improve the quality of care delivered.
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
March 02, 2019
Atmospheric carbon gets turned back into coal, tobacco plants are repurposed as “green bioreactors,” and an artificial intelligence text generator becomes worrisomely good at its job. There’s all sorts of unexpected transformation — and more — in this week’s coolest scientific discoveries.
 

Could Coal Get The Benjamin Button Treatment?

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Design To Assist: Adding Diversity To AI Is Nonnegotiable

Danny Guillory Redshift
September 25, 2017

Remember those set-and-forget robot vacuum cleaners that were all the rage several years ago? In addition to being a fun (and useful) novelty, they unintentionally provided a vivid example of why diversity in artificial intelligence is essential.

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A Wary Futurist’s Take On Robots And The Future of Work

Martin Ford
August 23, 2017

GE Reports Perspectives welcomes experts to analyze the impact of technology on the future of work. Here, Martin Ford, author of the New York Times bestseller, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, shares his predictions about artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on jobs and the economy.

 

 

  1. Will advances in AI make society better off or worse off?

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Ask An AI Expert: 6 Questions For Prof. Matthew Taylor

Matthew Taylor Washington State University
July 19, 2017

With advancements in technology, industrial products have evolved. Manufacturing has changed, and jobs must adapt.

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The Weekend Edition

The Weekend Edition: Melding Mind and Machine: How Close are We?

James Wu
Rajesh P N Rao
May 14, 2017
Just as ancient Greeks fantasized about soaring flight, today’s imaginations dream of melding minds and machines as a remedy to the pesky problem of human mortality. Can the mind connect directly with artificial intelligence, robots and other minds through brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies to transcend our human limitations?
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Understanding Animals Can Help Us Make The Most Of Artificial Intelligence

Heather Roff
April 10, 2017
The system currently at the Waukesha lab came from Light Guide System, a Detroit-area maker of augmented reality tools for industry. The first applications are focusing on guiding workers through “the critical steps where we can’t afford to make a mistake,” Beacham says. But his team has already started expanding its scope and connecting it to face recognition technology, collaborative robots, or cobots, and Predix, GE’s software platform for the Industrial Internet.
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Computers Can Now Read Your Emotions. Here’s Why That’s Not As Scary As It Sounds

Rana Kaliouby
April 07, 2017
The bright scholar caught the eye of General Electric, which selected her for an internship at Fort Wayne, Indiana, during her junior year in 1945 and then recruited her directly from college for a full-time job. “They offered me a job in March of that year, and I didn’t graduate until August,” she said. “So I finished that college year and got my degree, and headed for Schenectady,” said Reynolds.
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