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Artificial Intelligence
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Machines Are Getting Smarter—Now They Should Explain Themselves
Neural networks’ powers of prediction have fueled the recent AI boom, but it can be hard to explain how they reach their decisions. A...
8 Takes on the Rise of AI and Its Implications
In recent years, it's been exciting watching advances in AI like IBM's Watson smashing humans at Jeopardy and Google’s AlphaGo AI beating champions at the...
Robotics
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This Year’s Awesome Robot Stories From Around the Web (Through Sept...
Each week we scour the web for great articles and fascinating advances across our core topics, from AI to biotech and the brain. But...
Robot Revolution: These Are the Breakthroughs You Should Watch
Unexpected convergent consequences…this is what happens when eight different exponential technologies all explode onto the scene at once. This post (sixth in a series of seven) is a...
Neuroscience
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Online Dating Pioneer: Algorithmic Insights Can Help Us Become Better People
In an interview at Singularity University’s Global Summit in San Francisco, J. Galen Buckwalter said the quantitative study of personality is finding new tech applications.
Buckwalter developed the matching...
Scientists Complete the Most Detailed Map of the Brain Ever
To me, maps always conjure up a sense of exploration.
Back in the Age of Discovery, rudimentary maps allowed European explorers to sail into the...
Computing
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Why Quantum Computers Will Be Exponentially Faster Than Digital Computers
Classical computers (like the one you may be reading this on) calculate using bits, or binary digits, which can have only one of two...
This Is What Makes Quantum Computers Powerful Problem Solvers
In a previous article, I introduced the recent open-sourcing of quantum computing software by DWave. DWave is the maker of a quantum computer being...
Genetics
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FDA Breaks New Ground With First Approved Gene Therapy for Cancer
When oncologist Dr. Carl June heard the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to bring the first gene therapy to market in the US, he...
Gene Editing Might Change What Being Human Actually Means
Attempts to distill the essence of “selfhood” have occupied philosophers for centuries. Consensus has been fleeting at best, but is likely to get even...
Biotechnology
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This Radical New Method Regenerates Failing Lungs With Blood Vessels Intact
Save for the occasional burning pain that accompanies a run, most people don't pay much attention to the two-leafed organ puffing away in our...
3 Exciting Biotech Trends to Watch Closely in 2017
As I start to look at the emerging trends of 2017 from the vantage of IndieBio, where we see hundreds of biotech startup applications and...
