computer science
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‘Superhuman’ AI Crushes Poker Pros At Six-Player Texas Hold’em
Computer scientists have developed a card-playing bot, called Pluribus, capable of defeating some of the world’s best players at six-person no-limit Texas hold’em poker, in what’s considered an important breakthrough in artificial intelligence.
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This AI Just Mapped Every Solar Panel In The United States
From rooftop configurations to utility-scale facilities, solar panels are springing up like popcorn across the United States. Putting an exact figure on the nation’s total solar power output, however, is proving to be notoriously difficult. Thankfully, it’s a problem well suited to artificial intelligence, as new research from Stanford University shows.
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This Is The Longest Straight Path You Could Travel On Water Without Hitting Land
The longest sailable straight line path on Earth. Back in 2012, a Reddit user posted a map claiming to show the longest straight line that could be traversed across the ocean without hitting land. Intrigued, a pair of computer scientists have developed an algorithm that corroborates the route, while also demonstrating the longest straight line…
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Image Manipulation Hack Fools Humans And Machines, Makes Me Think Nothing Is Real Anymore
Computer scientists at Google Brain have devised a technique that tricks neural networks into misidentifying images — a hack that works on humans as well.