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Dr. Roberto Novoa of Stanford Medical School used a database of nearly 130,000 images from the internet to train a deep learning algorithm to identify skin cancers as accurately as his fellow dermatologists.

How do we program moral decision-making into autonomous vehicles?

Do black holes delete information forever? Or could information somehow escape them?

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Rana el Kaliouby is on a mission to humanize technology with artificial emotional intelligence.

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