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Chatbots Need More Chat Before They Can Become Human-like
Sorry, Siri, but just giving a chatbot a human name or adding humanlike features to its avatar might not be enough to win over a user if the device fails to maintain a conversational back-and-forth with that person, according to researchers. In fact, those humanlike features might create a backlash against less responsive humanlike chatbots.
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Can Science Writing Be Automated?
The work of a science writer, including this one, includes reading journal papers and figuring out how to explain their contents in language that readers without a scientific background can understand. Now, in a somewhat worrying development for this science writer, a team has developed a neural network, a form of artificial intelligence (AI), that can do much the same thing, at least to a limited extent.
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Digital Signal Processing - Now in Living Cells!
Synthetic biologists have added high-precision analog-to-digital signal processing to the genetic circuitry of living cells. The research dramatically expands the chemical, physical and environmental cues engineers can use to prompt programmed responses from engineered organisms.
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A Roadmap for AI in Medical Imaging
A foundational research roadmap for artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging was published this week in the journal Radiology. The report was based on outcomes from a workshop to explore the future of AI in medical imaging, hosted at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Personalized Cancer Therapy Trial Shows Encouraging Results
A newly published study has demonstrated the potential of using transcriptomics to help get cancer patients on treatments they're most likely to benefit from.
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Unexpectedly High Proportion of Our Body's Protein Affected by Sex and Diet
Scientists from EMBL Heidelberg have discovered that the collection of proteins in an animal cell - called the proteome - is substantially affected by both the animal's sex and its diet.
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Computational Genetics Furthers Our Understanding of Human Diseases
In a series of studies that volleyed between large databases and research in zebrafish, investigators have discovered a link between vascular biology and eye disease.
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Which Car Crashes Cause Brain Injury?
UA researchers are developing a tool to calculate the likelihood of traumatic brain injury after a vehicle collision, using an approach that fuses experimental and computational data.
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Voice Analysis Explored for PTSD Diagnosis
A specially designed computer program can help diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans by analyzing their voices with 89 % accuracy.
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Finding the Key to Flightlessness
Since Darwin's era, scientists have wondered how flightless birds like emus, ostriches, kiwi, cassowaries and others are related, and for decades the assumption was that they must all share a common ancestor who abandoned the skies for a more grounded life. A team of Harvard researchers believes they may now have part of the answer.
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