AI
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 ...
AI promises to improve cancer care through precision medicine. Oncologists are starting to agree.
To get a better handle on the collective “take” on artificial intelligence for cancer care, my colleagues and I at ...
Artificial intelligence could change the way we detect, treat breast cancer
The same technology that powers Siri and face recognition on your iPhone has also found success in medicine. By automatically ...
Here’s how artificial intelligence could ‘poison’ healthcare
Artificial intelligence is often hailed as a great catalyst of medical innovation, a way to find cures to diseases that ...
Startup wants to combine DNA, machine learning for earlier autism diagnosis
Probably Genetic, which recently graduated from the startup accelerator Y Combinator, wants to test the DNA of children with autism ...
Redefining artificial intelligence: It could work more like a ‘search engine’ than a human brain
With respect to AI, [engineer Eric] Drexler believes our view of an artificial intelligence as a single “agent” that acts ...
Google’s AI beats human doctors at diagnosing lung cancer in study
One of lung cancer’s most lethal attributes is its ability to trick radiologists. Some nodules appear threatening but turn out ...
We don’t always know why ‘intelligent’ machines do what they do. Should we study them like animals?
Artificial intelligence algorithms are often seen as 'black boxes' whose rules remain inaccessible. We must therefore create a new scientific ...
AI’s surprising development of ‘number sense’ mimics that of human babies
Training software that emulates brain networks to identify dog breeds or sports equipment is by now old news. But getting ...
Using AI to understand biological vision is another step toward engineering artificial brains
[Recently,] two studies independently tapped into the power of [artificial neural networks] to solve a 70-year-old neuroscience mystery: how does ...
Defining life: Why we need to identify the boundary between living things and AI robots
They’re advancing artificial intelligence (AI) to create next-gen personalized robots that can read human emotions in real time. What will ...
Building artificial brains to help us understand our own
You’d think that overseeing an entire issue of The Scientist focused on artificial intelligence would cause my mind to wander far into ...
Can AI take everything we’ve learned about medicine and become ‘a single doctor’?
The question isn’t if AI is coming to medicine. It’s how. At its best, machine learning can tap into the collective experience of ...
Viewpoint: AI may boost our diagnostic abilities, but it’s not ready to replace human doctors
I read a recent article in Nature Medicine about new inroads in deploying artificial intelligence (AI) in pediatrics. In the article, researchers ...
Can artificial intelligence improve IVF success rates?
In theory, an AI application would be able to pick out the single best embryo to use for IVF to ...
Podcast: How AI is boosting treatment of PTSD
Only about 10% of the individuals with mental health issues in the US are getting any sort of treatment that ...
We have so much genomic data—we need AI to help us grapple with it
Genomics is set to become the biggest source of data on the planet, overtaking the current leading heavyweights – astronomy, ...
3 ways artificial intelligence could enhance medical care and help us live longer
When it comes to the future of healthcare, perhaps the only technology more powerful than CRISPR is artificial intelligence. ...
Artificial intelligence could have a future diagnosing sick children, study says
With the money and time that visits to the ER and urgent care soak up, the chance to revisit old-fashioned ...
How AI ‘learned’ to predict a person’s age by analyzing gut bacteria
The plethora of bacteria and other tiny organisms that live in your gut, often referred to as the gut microbiome, don’t ...
Do we have an undiscovered human ancestor? AI says it’s likely
Through artificial intelligence (AI), scientists have now learned that we may have a completely new and as yet unidentified subspecies ...
Computer modeled on biological brains could ‘jump-start’ new era in AI research
A new research project aims to harness the power of quantum computers to build a new type of neural network — work the ...
AI should make our lives better by 2030, though there are ‘problems to worry about’, Pew study suggests
The year is 2030, and artificial intelligence has changed practically everything. Is it a change for the better or has ...
Fighting weeds: Can we reduce, or even eliminate, herbicides by utilizing robotics and AI?
A quick look at some of the technical strategies being pursued in farming robotics and AI ...
How AI can make gene editing ‘more accurate, cheaper and easier’
One of the most exciting prospects about gene technology is the development of precision or personalized medicine. The field, which ...
