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Sean Cusack is Senior Software Engineer at The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.

104 posts by Sean Cusack

• Artificial intelligence that mimics the brain needs sleep just like humans, study reveals – June 8, 2020
• Nvidia’s GameGAN generates games like Pac-Man – May 22, 2020
• Machine translates brainwaves into sentences – March 31, 2020
• Today I Learned That Not Everyone Has An Internal Monologue And It Has Ruined My Day – January 30, 2020
• How to talk someone out of bigotry – January 30, 2020
• With ultracold chemistry, researchers get a first look at exactly what happens during a chemical reaction – November 28, 2019
• What Are Every Single Cognitive Bias That Can Impact Good Judgment And Rational Thinking? #infographic – November 21, 2019
• Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA – October 22, 2019
• Musical perception: nature or nurture? – October 21, 2019
• Rough Science 1 Mediterranean Mystery – October 12, 2019
• China grew a plant on the moon — it sprouted two leaves, data indicates – October 7, 2019
• The war over supercooled water – October 5, 2019
• Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases – October 5, 2019
• Ancient Scrolls Charred – October 4, 2019
• How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers – August 25, 2019
• Google’s DeepMind AI Just Beat Two Pros At StarCraft II – January 24, 2019
• Machine learning leads mathematicians to unsolvable problem – January 10, 2019
• Cafe in Japan Hires Paralyzed People to Control Robot Servers – December 2, 2018
• Many scientists denounce researcher claiming 1st gene-edited babies born in China – November 26, 2018
• OpenAI’s Dota 2 defeat is still a win for artificial intelligence – August 28, 2018
• “I Was Devastated”: The Man Who Created the World Wide Web Has Some Regrets – July 3, 2018
• Semantic Soft Segmentation – May 18, 2018
• Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t – May 10, 2018
• China is monitoring employees’ brain waves and emotions — and the technology boosted one company’s profits – May 2, 2018
• Deepcric – Deep learning and Cricket – April 30, 2018
• Pic link – April 24, 2018
• Scientists Implanted Tiny Human Brains Into Mice – April 22, 2018
• Jordan Peele, BuzzFeed Create Fake News Video To Warn Of ‘Dangerous Time’ – April 18, 2018
• SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Knitting Community – April 7, 2018
• Watch a Human Try to Fight Off That Door-Opening Robot Dog – March 16, 2018
• The Shallowness of Google Translate – February 13, 2018
• A deep neural network wrote us a Christmas carol—and it’s hilariously bad – December 24, 2017
• Artificial intelligence goes bilingual—without a dictionary – December 21, 2017
• We used predictive keyboards trained on all seven books to ghostwrite this spellbinding new Harry Potter chapter – December 12, 2017
• DeepMind’s AI became a superhuman chess player in a few hours, just for fun – December 7, 2017
• This AI algorithm probably means the end of high-end art forgeries – December 6, 2017
• Google’s AI Built Its Own AI That Outperforms Any Made – December 4, 2017
• This frostbitten black metal album was created by an artificial intelligence – December 2, 2017
• A Neural Network Wrote the Next ‘Game of Thrones’ Book Because George R.R. Martin Hasn’t – November 6, 2017
• How Do You Turn a Dog into a Car? Change a Single Pixel – October 30, 2017
• DeepMind wants to find the next miracle material—experts just don’t know how they’ll pull it off – October 26, 2017
• The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans – October 20, 2017
• The world’s smartest game-playing AI—DeepMind’s AlphaGo—just got way smarter – October 18, 2017
• The quantum revolution is getting closer: Intel is manufacturing 17-qubit chips – October 12, 2017
• How Mozart Might Have Played Metallica, According to Artificial Intelligence – October 1, 2017
• #G4C12: Rants – September 2, 2017
• Hyperentanglement across roof tops paves the way toward a global quantum Internet – August 24, 2017
• A Solution of the P versus NP Problem – August 15, 2017
• The world’s best Dota 2 players just got destroyed by a killer AI from Elon Musk’s startup – August 12, 2017
• DeepMind and Blizzard open StarCraft II as an AI research environment – August 10, 2017
• First Human Embryos Edited in the U.S., Scientists Say – July 27, 2017
• Installing microchips in employees is ‘the right thing to do,’ CEO says – July 26, 2017
• AI Is Inventing Languages Humans Can’t Understand. Should We Stop It? – July 26, 2017
• When a Computer Program Keeps You in Jail – June 13, 2017
• Scientists slash computations for deep learning – June 7, 2017
• Google’s New AI Is Better at Creating AI Than the Company’s Engineers – May 21, 2017
• An AI invented a bunch of new paint colors that are hilariously wrong – May 19, 2017
• AI picks up racial and gender biases when learning from what humans write – April 13, 2017
• This Scientist Made An AI That Invents Recipes And The Results Are Hilarious – April 1, 2017
• DeepMind just published a mind blowing paper: PathNet – February 18, 2017
• The Real Threat Is Machine Incompetence, Not Intelligence – February 7, 2017
• New Organisms Have Been Formed Using the First Ever 6-Letter Genetic Code – January 24, 2017
• Microtargeting of low-information voters – January 2, 2017
• Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot – December 26, 2016
• This AI’s attempt to write a Christmas carol is absolutely bone-chilling – December 9, 2016
• What intellectual difference is there between IQ scores of 135, 157, and 162? – November 6, 2016
• One of the world’s most popular computer games will soon be open to many sophisticated AI players – November 4, 2016
• Google’s neural networks invent their own encryption – October 26, 2016
• A neural network tried to write a 9th Harry Potter book, and the results are hilarious – July 14, 2016
• Daddies, “Dates,” and the Girlfriend Experience: Welcome to the New Prostitution Economy – July 8, 2016
• By data mining a vast collection of novels, researchers have identified the six basic plots that all stories follow – July 6, 2016
• Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing — Part 1 – July 3, 2016
• This Obscure Anime Predicted So Much About The Future Of Cars – June 30, 2016
• Movie written by AI algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense – June 13, 2016
• Brooklyn Institute for Social Research – June 4, 2016
• Two-hundred-terabyte maths proof is largest ever – May 27, 2016
• A Computer Was Programmed to Write a Novel, This Is What It Wrote – May 3, 2016
• A Japanese AI Wrote a Novel, Almost Wins Literary Award – March 24, 2016
• Microsoft’s ‘teen girl’ AI turns into a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours – March 24, 2016
• Google’s AI Takes Historic Match Against Go Champ With Third Straight Win – March 12, 2016
• Google’s DeepMind defeats legendary Go player Lee Se-dol – March 9, 2016
• Mystery of Consciousness Solved – Fully and Conclusively – February 20, 2016
• Are We Smart Enough to Control Artificial Intelligence? – January 9, 2016
• Why 2016 Could Be a Watershed Year for Emotional Intelligence–in Machines – December 28, 2015
• What Happens When Artificial Intelligence Makes MAGIC: THE GATHERING Cards – December 21, 2015
• This robot is learning how to say “no” to humans – November 24, 2015
• Quantum entanglement achieved at room temperature in semiconductor wafers – November 20, 2015
• Google’s RankBrain Outranks the Best Brains in the Industry – November 16, 2015
• TensorFlow — Google’s latest machine learning system, open sourced for everyone – November 9, 2015
• We’re on the cusp of a revolution that will change the world as much as computers did – November 1, 2015
• Consciousness has less control than believed, according to new theory – October 24, 2015
• In 1,000 Years Humans Will Have Red Eyes, Dark Skin And Superhuman Powers – October 23, 2015
• Will You Ever Be Able to Upload Your Brain? – October 13, 2015
• Don’t Worry, Artificial Intelligence Has A Long Way To Go: Baidu Scientist – September 24, 2015
• Scientists Apply for License to Edit Genes in Human Embryos – September 23, 2015
• Google’s John Giannandrea: How to Make Computers More Human – September 19, 2015
• Why Physicists Are Saying Consciousness Is A State Of Matter, Like a Solid, A Liquid Or A Gas – September 8, 2015
• Supercomputer simulates one second of human brain activity in 40 minutes – August 4, 2015
• Stop Worrying About Whether Machines Are “Intelligent” – August 4, 2015
• Free Will Does Not Exist — Should it be a Transhumanist Enhancement? – July 27, 2015
• Google’s Artificial Intelligence Speaks, and She’s a Woman – July 27, 2015
• Discovery Of Massless Weyl Fermion Particle Could Revolutionize Electronics – July 18, 2015
• Algorithms Based on Brains Make For Better Networks – July 18, 2015
• Is consciousness an engineering problem? – Michael Graziano – Aeon – July 11, 2015