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NOVA Wonders Can We Build a Brain?

Artificially intelligent machines are taking over. They’re influencing our everyday lives in profound and often invisible ways. They can read handwriting, interpret emotions, play games, and even act as personal assistants. They are in our phones, our cars, our doctors’ offices, our banks, our web searches…the list goes on and is rapidly growing ever longer.

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Artificially intelligent machines are taking over. They’re influencing our everyday lives in profound and often invisible ways. They can read handwriting, interpret emotions, play games, and even act as personal assistants. They are in our phones, our cars, our doctors’ offices, our banks, our web searches…the list goes on and is rapidly growing ever longer.

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    What is a Neural Net?

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    Neural nets have revolutionized the AI industry for years. But what exactly are they?

  • Profile: Rana el Kaliouby: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Profile: Rana el Kaliouby

    S45 E104 - 4m 46s

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

  • Using Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose Melanoma: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Using Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose Melanoma

    S45 E104 - 2m 9s

    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.

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