AI
Can we take AI to the next level by building robots that fear for their own safety?
There might be a way, though, to give robots feelings, say neuroscientists Kingson Man and Antonio Damasio. Simply build the ...
AI ethics can’t come from human medicine: Principles that guide doctors would ‘make no sense’ to a machine
The four core principles of medical ethics are respect for autonomy (patients should have control over how they are treated), ...
Viewpoint: Doctors will never be replaced by intelligent machines, which lack ’empathy, common sense’
Is there a place for artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of medicine? Will doctors one day be replaced by ...
Can computers develop human-like intelligence by imitating our own evolutionary path?
Evolutionary algorithms have been around for a long time. Traditionally, they’ve been used to solve specific problems. In each generation, ...
Viewpoint: AI can revolutionize drug development if we can learn to trust it
The pharmaceutical industry is facing a crisis is R&D. About 50% of late-stage clinical trials fail due to ineffective drug targets, ...
Microsoft previews ‘data-driven’ farming platform as solution to global food demand boom
The global population is expected to increase by 2.2 billion by 2050, and the world’s farmers will have to grow ...
Viewpoint: ‘Long-promised AI revolution’ in healthcare delayed by shortcomings, including systems that are easily misled
Today, hundreds of startup companies around the world are trying to apply deep learning to radiology. Yet the number of radiologists who ...
The frightening thing about military AI: It may be too easily fooled, ‘turned against it owners’
Last March, Chinese researchers announced an ingenious and potentially devastating attack against one of America’s most prized technological assets—a Tesla ...
Artificial intelligence can determine your ‘brain age’ by analyzing MRI scans
Delaying “brain age” may sound like the latest quick-fix gimmick on a late-night infomercial, but the science underlying the concept ...
AI has a problem with generalization. Human brains may offer a solution.
Unconstrained by evolution, AI has the potential to churn through vast amounts of data to surpass our puny, fatty central ...
Viewpoint: There’s reason for optimism about AI’s ability to diagnose illnesses—but there’s also a lot of hype
Medicine is one of the hottest fields when it comes to applying AI to real-world problems, in particular using deep learning systems to ...
AI and digital health devices: FDA’s new guidelines seek to ‘strike a delicate balance’ between safety and innovation
The Food and Drug Administration has issued new guidelines on how it will regulate mobile health software and products that ...
When it comes to vision, computers are beating us at our own game
Does computer vision need inspiration from human vision at all? In some ways, the answer is obviously no. The information ...
AI-powered devices deliver ‘micro-dose’ of herbicide to cut agriculture’s chemical use
Above a Saskatchewan field, a line of drones rises in formation, sensors primed to pick out enemy targets below. But ...
Brain scans, like DNA, can say a lot about who you are. That creates ethical, privacy concerns.
Many people are aware—and properly protective—of the vast stores of information contained in their DNA. When DNA samples were collected ...
Viewpoint: Before we ‘summon the demon’ of AI, we need a global consensus on ethics
The potential threats of AI are many, and most people agree that ethical AI that benefits humanity as a whole ...
Asia is pulling ahead in the AI race – but are ethics being prioritized?
Globally, future outlooks for artificial intelligence (AI) swing between two extremes—excited anticipation about the positive impact AI will have on ...
Artificial intelligence could revolutionize health care, but there’s no guarantee that will be a good thing
AI-driven medical tools could democratize health care, but some worry they could also worsen inequalities ...
AI has the power to advance healthcare. Here’s why it hasn’t yet ‘moved the needle’
The promise of AI to solve our health and wellness woes almost seems inevitable. From DeepMind’s algorithms that match or ...
Smartphone app could help banana growers spot major diseases before they strike
This work is a step towards creating a satellite-powered, globally connected network to control disease and pest outbreaks ...
3 ways neuroscience and AI can work together to help us understand how we think
The meteoric success of deep learning showcases how insights from neuroscience—memory, learning, decision-making, vision—can be distilled into algorithms that bestow ...
AI could help farmers cut weather-related crop losses by 25% as global food demand soars
The AI in agriculture market was valued at USD 600 million in 2018 and is expected to reach USD 2.6 ...
Here are 3 problems with DeepMind’s AI breakthrough, including poor accuracy at predicting acute kidney injuries
[Google-affiliated artificial intelligence] DeepMind claimed its biggest healthcare breakthrough to date: that artificial intelligence (A.I.) can predict acute kidney injury ...
Viewpoint: AI promises to revolutionize personalized medicine. Now we need ‘clinical validation’.
Machines can now be trained to see things humans cannot, and likely never will. ... From obviating the need to ...
Improving artificial intelligence by teaching our machines to reason
Deep learning, the category of AI algorithms that kick-started the field’s most recent revolution, has made immense strides in giving ...
Will we ever know if our computers gain consciousness?
The question of whether machines can have consciousness is not new, with proponents of strong artificial intelligence (strong AI) and ...
Artificial intelligence doesn’t ‘think’ like we do. How can we ever trust it?
Today, digital information technology has redefined how people interact with each other socially, and even how some find their partners ...
