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Can AI Machine-Learning Models Overcome Biased Datasets?
A model’s ability to generalize is influenced by both the diversity of the data and the way the model is trained, researchers report. Artificial intelligence…
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“Seeing” Non-Uniformities in 2D Materials May Lead to Tiny New Medical Sensors
A molecule of the cancer medication doxorubicin (foreground), detected using the van der Waals vertical heterostructure biosensor (background). The background is an actual nanoscale scattering…
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Engineers Create Tiny Robot “Bugs” That Can Go Just About Anywhere
Insects inspire tiny robots that can carry out tasks in hard-to-reach spaces and inhospitable environments. University of Pittsburgh Engineers Create Insect-Inspired Robots That Can Monitor…
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How To Help Humans Understand Robots – To Collaborate Faster and More Effectively
Researchers from MIT and Harvard suggest that applying theories from cognitive science and educational psychology to the area of human-robot interaction can help humans build…
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Adversarially Robust: The Benefits of Peripheral Vision for Machines
New research from MIT suggests that a certain type of computer vision model that is trained to be robust to imperceptible noise added to image…
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Injecting Fairness Into AI: Machine-Learning Models That Produce Fair Outputs Even When Trained on Unfair Data
A new technique boosts models’ ability to reduce bias, even if the dataset used to train the model is unbalanced. If a machine-learning model is…
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Safely Studying Dangerous Infections – Like COVID – Just Got a Lot Easier
Digital images of cells infected with SARS-CoV-2, created from soft X-ray tomography taken of chemically fixed cells at the Advanced Light Source. Credit: Loconte et…
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A Security Technique To Fool Would-Be Cyber Attackers – Method Safeguards a Computer Program’s Secret Information
Researchers demonstrate a method that safeguards a computer program’s secret information while enabling faster computation. Researchers demonstrate a method that safeguards a computer program’s secret…
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Quantum Gravity Sensor Breakthrough Paves Way for Groundbreaking Map of World Under Earth’s Surface
A perspective of future gravity cartography being used with 0.5 m spatial resolution over a region, at an uncertainty level of 20 E. Expected signal sizes for…
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