artificial intelligence
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Podcast: AI-powered nutrition devices could cut exploding obesity rates. Will FDA rules keep them off the market?
Medical devices powered by artificial intelligence could help overweight people customize diets based on their biomarkers ...
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 ...
Uganda set to embrace artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, but biotechnology languishes
'Something fundamentally detrimental to the progress of scientific and technological innovations in the agriculture of our nation is happening.' ...
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 could try to build a conscious robot. But how would we know if we succeeded?
Consciousness seems to stem from the struggle between our brain's beliefs and perceptions. How can we design neural networks to ...
Can biohacking transform our homes into ‘hospitals of the future’?
The need of having a higher quality of care and more control and transparency over individual healthcare are affecting the ...