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Medical AI Gets a Grip: An AI System controlled DaVinci surgical robots.
Surgical robots perform millions of delicate operations annually under human control. Now they’re getting ready to operate on their own.
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Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.
AI has added an unlikely language to its catalog of translation capabilities: brain waves. Joseph Makin led a group from the University of California San Francisco to render a person’s neural signals as English text while the person while the person read a sentence aloud.
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Deep Learning Tackles Skin Ailments
Skin conditions are the fourth-largest cause of nonfatal disease worldwide, but access to dermatological care is sparse. A new study shows that a neural network can do front-line diagnostic work.