Predicting Regime Change: CoupCast uses AI to predict unrest.
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Predicting Regime Change: CoupCast uses AI to predict unrest.

Researchers at the University of Central Florida are working with a system called CoupCast to estimate the likelihood that an individual country will undergo a coup d’état.

January 12, 20222 min read
Tax Relief the AI Way: AI Economist creates optimal tax rate.
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Tax Relief the AI Way: AI Economist creates optimal tax rate.

Nothing is certain except death and taxes, the saying goes — but how to make taxes fair and beneficial remains an open question. New research aims to answer it.

January 5, 20222 min read
Tax Relief the AI Way: AI Economist creates optimal tax rate.
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Tax Relief the AI Way: AI Economist creates optimal tax rate.

Nothing is certain except death and taxes, the saying goes — but how to make taxes fair and beneficial remains an open question. New research aims to answer it.

January 5, 20222 min read
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
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Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates

A new machine learning method aims to improve a machine’s ability to determine and locate points of interest.

November 10, 20212 min read
Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates
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Finding Useful Points in Space: Keypoint3D Helps Robots Locate Spatial Coordinates

A new machine learning method aims to improve a machine’s ability to determine and locate points of interest.

November 10, 20212 min read
Team Players: Football-Playing AI Blends Individual and Group Skills
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Team Players: Football-Playing AI Blends Individual and Group Skills

Playing a team sport involves a fluid blend of individual and group skills. Researchers integrated both types of action into realistic humanoid agents that play football (known as soccer in the U.S.).

September 15, 20212 min read
Team Players: Football-Playing AI Blends Individual and Group Skills
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Team Players: Football-Playing AI Blends Individual and Group Skills

Playing a team sport involves a fluid blend of individual and group skills. Researchers integrated both types of action into realistic humanoid agents that play football (known as soccer in the U.S.).

September 15, 20212 min read
Getting a Jump on Climate Change: AI Startups Predict the Economic Impacts of Climate Change
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Getting a Jump on Climate Change: AI Startups Predict the Economic Impacts of Climate Change

Startups are predicting how climate change will affect global commerce. Companies that specialize in climate analytics are training neural networks to help businesses manage risks posed by a warming globe,

September 8, 20212 min read
Getting a Jump on Climate Change: AI Startups Predict the Economic Impacts of Climate Change
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Getting a Jump on Climate Change: AI Startups Predict the Economic Impacts of Climate Change

Startups are predicting how climate change will affect global commerce. Companies that specialize in climate analytics are training neural networks to help businesses manage risks posed by a warming globe,

September 8, 20212 min read
Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.
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Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.

The previous state-of-the-art model for playing vintage Atari games took advantage of a number of advances in reinforcement learning (RL). The new champion is a basic RL architecture plus a trick borrowed from image generation.

August 18, 20212 min read
Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.
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Solve RL With This One Weird Trick: How to get better performance from reinforcement learning.

The previous state-of-the-art model for playing vintage Atari games took advantage of a number of advances in reinforcement learning (RL). The new champion is a basic RL architecture plus a trick borrowed from image generation.

August 18, 20212 min read
Materials Science Gets a Boost: How AI can speed up materials science.
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Materials Science Gets a Boost: How AI can speed up materials science.

Neural nets could speed up development of new materials.What’s new: A deep learning system from Sandia National Laboratories dramatically accelerated simulations that help scientists understand how changes to the design or fabrication of a material change its properties.

February 3, 20211 min read
Materials Science Gets a Boost: How AI can speed up materials science.
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Materials Science Gets a Boost: How AI can speed up materials science.

Neural nets could speed up development of new materials.What’s new: A deep learning system from Sandia National Laboratories dramatically accelerated simulations that help scientists understand how changes to the design or fabrication of a material change its properties.

February 3, 20211 min read
It’s a Small World Model After All: More efficient world models for reinforcement learning
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It’s a Small World Model After All: More efficient world models for reinforcement learning

World models, which learn a compressed representation of a dynamic environment like, say, a video game, have delivered top results in reinforcement learning. A new method makes them much smaller.

January 13, 20212 min read
It’s a Small World Model After All: More efficient world models for reinforcement learning
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It’s a Small World Model After All: More efficient world models for reinforcement learning

World models, which learn a compressed representation of a dynamic environment like, say, a video game, have delivered top results in reinforcement learning. A new method makes them much smaller.

January 13, 20212 min read

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