An AI system teaches itself to solve the Rubik's Cube more quickly than any human.

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A new paper shows how natural-language processing can accelerate scientific discovery.The context: Natural-language processing has seen major advancements in recent years, thanks to the development of unsupervised machine-learning techniques that are really good at capturing the relationships between words.

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The traditional retail industry is undergoing a significant reinvention and upgrade as more and more brick and mortar stores boost business by adopting e-commerce platforms powered by cutting-edge tech.

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INN spoke to Rick Roche of Little Harbour Advisors about risk modeling, natural language processing and alternative data sets in investing.

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Although the vast gap between human intelligence and current AI capabilities push the expected materialization of artificial general intelligence far into the future, the unpredictably rapid growth of AI gives the impression that we won’t have to wait too long to see generally intelligent machines.

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Digital agency AKQA recently commissioned a recurrent neural network to craft an entirely new sport. The Design Week Portland project processed data from over 400 sports around the globe, outputting more than 1,000 concepts. Humans then combed through the candidates…

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Beyond facial recognition, we're giving smart devices and platforms our intimate biometric details.

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At Enterprise Connect 2019, AI was broadly about computers performing human-like behaviors and learning from tagged data and outcomes.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) systems spending will reach $5.2 billion in Europe in 2019, a 49% increase over 2018 – driven by a need for better automation Artificial intelligence (AI) systems spending will reach $5.2 billion in Europe in 2019, a 49% increase over 2018 – driven by a need for better automation and customer experience

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A Grant Thornton survey of CFOs found finance leaders will invest in emerging technologies with real returns on investment.

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